The View got an unfiltered testimony from Wendy Williams about how she’s faring under her much-publicized conservatorship, which she was first placed under in 2022. Williams, who appeared on this morning’s episode of the show, was taken to a hospital on Monday (March 10) after living in a memory care unit at an assisted living facility. On The View today, she insisted the move happened because she “needed a breath of fresh air.”
After being discharged from the hospital on Wednesday (March 12), Williams told The View she “was having a little agita” from her current living situation.
“I needed to see the doctors. So that’s why I went to the hospital … I also got blood drawn for my thyroid, but most importantly, being at the hospital, it was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation — which, I don’t have it. How dare they say I have incapacitation? I do not,” she told the panel emphatically.
Williams was declared “legally incapacitated” by a judge when placed under her conservatorship, with Sabrina Morrissey serving as her guardian. The View panelist Sunny Hostin read off a statement from Morrissey’s lawyer during the show’s call with Williams this morning, which the TV star got a chance to respond to live on air.
Hostin read that Williams’ “guardianship was created by a judge who declared you legally incapacitated after a diagnosis of frontal temporal dementia and says you have not been kept from your family, and you are receiving excellent medical care.”
After hearing the statement, Williams words of her own to share.
“I’ve been doing important things all of my life,” she said. “These two people — they 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. I need them to…get off my neck!” she exclaimed, referring to the judge who placed her under the conservatorship and Morrissey, her guardian.
Williams has largely been out of the public eye in the last few years after ending her time on The Wendy Williams Show in 2022. Her conservatorship was the subject of the 2024 Lifetime doc Where Is Wendy Williams?, which showed her life after the end of her eponymous talk show.
Prior to her appearance on The View this morning, Williams also had a live phone call with Good Day New York, telling the show she passed mental competency tests “with flying colors.” Earlier this year, she told the popular radio program The Breakfast Club that she is “not cognitively impaired” and feels imprisoned under her guardianship.
The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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