In a new interview, Wendy Williams says she’s “not cognitively impaired” and wants out of her much-discussed guardianship.
Speaking with The Breakfast Club for an interview shared on Thursday, Williams, who was joined on the call by her niece, Alex, likened her current living situation to “prison” and criticized the larger system she says makes these types of situations possible.
“I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison,” Williams said early into the conversation, available in full below. “I’m in New York City. … I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s.”
Further detailing her living situation, Williams, pictured above at a New York event in 2019, said that she eats all three meals of any given day “on the bed.” She spends her time watching TV, listening to the radio, looking at the space’s lone window, and talking on the phone. At this point, Charlamagne chimes in to note that Sabrina Morrissey, Wiliams’ guardian, was recently the subject of a countersuit from A&E and Lifetime over claims regarding their docuseries about the New Jersey-born media personality.
“What do I think about being abused? Listen, this system is broken, this system that I’m in,” Williams said. “This system has falsified a lot.”
Williams went on to say that she’s been “caught” in this system for three years, adding that she currently has no access to a laptop or iPad. Furthermore, Williams says, her cats were sold without her knowledge, while her money is allegedly in a “prison” of its own. She’s hoping to secure a release from the situation, which she and her niece say will allow her to head ot Miami, where her “entire family” now resides. For now, though, Williams isn’t even sure she’ll be able to travel to the Florida city for her father’s upcoming birthday.
Deeper into the interview, Williams gets emotional and can be heard crying, while her niece continues to outline what they argue is the bigger picture surrounding certain instances of guardianship. See more above.
These types of situations, generally speaking, became a major talking point amid the larger pop culture landscape thanks to the lengthy conservatorship case of Britney Spears, which ended in 2021. To be clear, there are key differences between a conservatorship and a guardianship. Both, however, are enabled by a court order.