Wendy Williams called into ABC’s “The View” to discuss her recent visit to a psychiatric hospital.
Wendy said she received an independent psychological evaluation and had blood drawn for thyroid function tests.
“But most importantly… it was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation, which I don’t have it,” Wendy told the ladies on The View.
“You sound Ok to me,” said Joy Behar.
“How dare they say I have incapacitation. I do not!” Wendy said emphatically.
Co-host Ana Navarro (2nd from right) asked Wendy about her niece Alex Finnie sneaking her out of an assisted living facility on Wednesday. Wendy has lived at the $18,000 a month facility for 8 months.
Wendy explained how she got out of the facility – with help from her niece, Alex, and “the boyfriend” who flew in from Miami.
She said she left the facility “with permission from the guardian, of course.”
However, the guardian filed a police report with the NYPD accusing Alex of kidnapping her auntie.
The former talk show host said, when they returned to the Coterie, they stopped and posed for the paparazzi. “That’s what I do – I stopped, I posed…”
Wendy said two staffers, who should have been off duty, were still downstairs “like they’re waiting for me, and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, what is about to happen?’ It is a locked unit, like, they have to use keys – the people who work here – to open it so we can take the elevator downstairs. I am not permitted to do anything but stay on this floor – the memory unit floor where the people are 90, and 80, and 70.”
“Look, I’m 60 and I don’t even know what a memory unit… why am I here where people don’t remember anything? You know what I’m saying? So I stay in the bedroom the majority of the time,” Wendy continued. “I never go out to eat with them. You know, I stay in the bedroom.”
Wendy said she is not allowed to have friends, such as her advocate Ginalisa Monterroso, come to visit her.
Co-host Sunny Hostin told Wendy that her guardian’s lawyer issued a statement denying her claims that she is being kept from her family. The lawyer added that Wendy is receiving “excellent medical care.”
Sunny asked Wendy how she’s keeping her spirits up when she can’t do something she really loved to do (hosting her own talk show).
“I am a college educated woman,” Wendy replied, “I’ve been doing important things all of my life… and these 2 people don’t look like me, they don’t dress like me, they don’t talk like me, they don’t act like me. And I venture to say, they will never BE me.”
Wendy added that she was referring to her guardian and the judge. “I need a new guardian and then I’ll get out of [guardianship],” she said.
According to friends, Wendy has a history of noncompliance with her medications over the years.
Psychosis in patients with dementia includes symptoms such as hallucinations, paranoid delusions, depression, anxiety, and more.
Friends say Wendy is where she needs to be – at an assisted living facility for her own safety and well-being.
“How dare they say I have incapacitation. I do not!”
Wendy Williams, with her advocate Ginalisa Monterroso, speaks to @TheView about her hospital visit — where she says she received an independent evaluation — and shares an update about her life under a guardianship. pic.twitter.com/lsn0OlvW7j
— The View (@TheView) March 14, 2025
