Wendy Williams, who had previously called her assisted living facility a “luxury prison”, was escorted out of said-living facility by NYPD to a local hospital for an “evaluation” on March 10, reports People. The New York Post reported that Williams was tossing several notes from her window earlier this morning that read “Help! Wendy!!” They also shared photos of Williams inside her apartment, waving out the window for help while on the phone. The police were then called for a welfare evaluation of Williams’s care; she has been asking to be removed from the facility for quite some time. “I feel like I’m in prison,” Williams said of her experience to The Breakfast Club in January, proclaiming that she was “not cognitively impaired.”
She has been in a guardianship since 2022 and has been fighting to get out of it; she was put into the guardianship because the bank claimed she was being financially abused. Williams was diagnosed with dementia and aphasia last year, and she claims she hasn’t been reevaluated since her diagnosis in 2023. Her family says they have had trouble communicating with Williams while in this facility. “The people who love her cannot see her,” Wanda Finnie, Williams’s sister, told People. Vulture has reached out to Williams’s team for comment.