An assisted living facility in New York has filed charges accusing Wendy Williams‘ niece of kidnapping the former talk show host.
On Wednesday, the luxury assisted living facility where Wendy lives filed a police report after she left the grounds with her niece.
Sources tell TMZ that Wendy’s niece, Alex Finnie, took Wendy out to an Italian restaurant for dinner on Wednesday.
According to sources close to Wendy, the Coterie facility called NYPD and filed a police report claiming Alex evaded staff by sneaking Wendy out of the building.
Wendy is not allowed to leave the 5th floor memory unit without the staff’s permission.
TMZ was told that an attendant actually accompanied Wendy and Alex down to the lobby and opened the door of their Uber for them to get in.
Sources say Wendy allegedly has a history of noncompliance with her medications when she’s not in a facility.
The medications stabilize the chemicals in Wendy’s brain so she can be alert and oriented and think clearly.
When she’s not taking her meds, Wendy’s dementia worsens – and she becomes a danger to herself.
By locking her inside the facility, Wendy will receive her psychiatric meds and she will be safe.
The turn of events comes as a New York judge expressed annoyance at Wendy’s behavior.
TMZ reviewed an email that Judge Lisa Sokoloff fired off to Wendy’s lawyer. The judge referenced a prior hearing in which she ordered that Wendy be moved to a new facility.
Apparently Wendy’s lawyer fired back saying it would be wrong to move her to an even more restrictive facility than where she is right now.
The judge wrote in the email: “I have always contended that [Wendy] will be given the independence she can handle. I question how well she has handled the independence she has been given.”
Multiple sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ that the judge is upset that Wendy has been speaking to the media and complaining about her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey.
Wendy called police on Monday asking them to escort her out of the Coterie facility, which she called a “luxury prison.”
Video obtained by TMZ shows the cops loading Wendy into an ambulance. She was transported to a New York area psychiatric hospital where she reportedly score 10/10 on 2 psych exams.
A lawyer for Wendy’s court ordered-guardian, Morrissey, issued a statement saying Wendy is not being isolated from her family.
In a cease and desist letter to TMZ, the law firm said Wendy can call her family and visit them anytime.
