Wendy Williams spoke out about her health after she was taken to a New York hospital for evaluation during a welfare check.
The former talk show host, 60, called in to the Friday, March 14, episode of The View. “It was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation, which I don’t have it,” Williams said of her hospital visit. “How dare they say I have incapacitation. I do not.”
Williams recalled grabbing dinner with her niece Alex Finnie after the hospital stay on Wednesday, March 12, for which she had to get permission by her guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey. “It was great at first,” she said before noting her guardians were waiting for her when she got back to her living facility.
“I’m not permitted to do anything, but stay on this floor, memory unit,” she stated, questioning, “Why am I here?”
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Williams said that her guardians and case judge need to “get off my neck,” stating, “These two people don’t look like me, they don’t talk like me, they don’t act like me, and venture to say, they will never be me. … I need a new guardian.”
Williams, who noted that she’s currently “alcohol-free,” said her end goal was to get out of her guardianship. “I don’t want Sabrina, period,” she said. “But I also don’t want a guardian. I want to get out of guardian[ship]. It’s been over three years. It’s time for my money and my life to get back to status quo.”
Williams’ appearance on The View comes after Us Weekly confirmed she was transported from her assisted living facility in New York to a local hospital for “evaluation” on Monday, March 10, amid a welfare check by police. She has been under a legal guardianship since May 2022 and was diagnosed with dementia in 2023.
News broke in November 2024 that Morrissey, Williams’ court-appointed guardian, alleged in court documents that Williams is “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated.” However, in January, Williams denied that she is “cognitively impaired” while voicing her desire to end her guardianship.
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After her hospital visit, Williams called into the Tuesday, March 11, episode of Good Day New York to share that she underwent mental competency tests, claiming, “I passed with flying colors!”
Williams then asked her caretaker, Ginalia Monterrosa — who accompanied her to the hospital — to “elaborate on everything.”
“She had those tests, she’s been deemed she is not incapacitated,” Monterrosa said. “I think it’s great news, and it’s public, and everybody knows factually that Wendy’s not incapacitated.”
Williams added that her “No. 1” goal was to end her guardianship.
That same day, Monterrosa claimed on The Breakfast Club that Williams got 10 out of 10 answers correct on the tests at the hospital, with Williams noting, “They asked me simple things like who’s the president? What’s your birth date?”
In an exclusive interview with Us earlier this week, Monterrosa said Williams’ inner circle is “just figuring out next steps of what’s going to happen.”
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“She is letting the public know it is unfair, it is unjust,” Monterrosa told Us of Williams’ recent interviews. “She doesn’t need to be in a guardianship. She is not incapacitated. She will continue to voice her opinion.”
Monterrosa claimed that Williams is not allowed to have a cell phone at her assisted living facility and only has access to a landline that makes outgoing calls but does not receive incoming calls.
“We’d love for her to be in an unrestrictive environment — even at another facility — where she has freedom to come in and out, see her friends, people can call her, she can have an iPad, she can use a two-way phone — not just [a] one-way [phone],” Monterrosa said. “[She has] the freedom to go to the store and supermarket, to go to the gym, to have a life and the things we take for granted.”
