Wendy Williams is speaking again about her ongoing struggle with conservatorship and living in an assisted living facility. In a recent five-minute phone interview on NewsNation’s Banfield, the former talk show host detailed her restrictions while residing in her facility bedroom.
You have to hand it to the former queen of daytime TV. She is handling her new normal like a boss despite her struggles. We only wish her the absolute best as she fights to maintain her health.
“Well, I don’t have the freedom to do virtually anything,” Williams shared on February 27, noting that the facility’s gym is one of her few escapes. Despite that, she expressed deep dissatisfaction with the conditions on the memory unit’s fifth floor, where she has lived for the past year.
Get this, Williams described how other residents in the unit require significant assistance with daily tasks, relying on medication and help for basic needs. “It’s the memory unit, you know what I mean? Why am I here?” she questioned. “I have no idea, but I can tell you that it’s $18,000 a month, which is extremely expensive. And what do I have? I have a bedroom and a bathroom and a window.”
A New Jersey native, Williams revealed she has been in the facility for the past three years and is eager for a change. “I’m ready to get out of here. I’m ready to get out of the Guardian,” she stated, describing her current situation as “suffocating” and “very lonely.”
ICYMI, during a January interview on The Breakfast Club, Williams firmly denied claims of cognitive impairment. “I am not cognitively impaired, but I feel like I am in prison,” she declared, emphasizing her willingness to undergo medical evaluations to challenge reports regarding her health.
“I’m accused of having frontal temporal dementia,” she told Banfield. “They accuse me of being incapacitated. So I would imagine that the best way to prove that I am not, you know, is to talk with people.”