Wendy Williams says her "life is f***ed up" and feels like she's trapped in a prison ... and it's all due to her being stuck in a conservatorship, despite not being "cognitively impaired."
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00:00Do you remember in movies that sometimes people are in the back seat of a car and it's cold
00:08out and they write help in the back window because they're trying to send signals?
00:13Wendy Williams did that today.
00:15Yeah.
00:16Wow.
00:17That is a heck of a metaphor and an accurate one because we have heard so much over the
00:22last few years about Wendy's, her condition, about her health and that she is the word
00:28they said permanently disabled.
00:30That was the word.
00:31And we thought she was not functional and needed the kind of care that only a conservatorship
00:38or in New York a guardianship could provide.
00:41Which she still is under, but today she's speaking out and I got to say, you're about
00:47to hear her, she sounds pretty lucid, but she is speaking out about where she is, why
00:55she's there and some things that are really upsetting to her.
00:59So this was Wendy speaking to Charlamagne on The Breakfast Club this morning.
01:03I am not cognitively impaired, you know what I'm saying?
01:07But I feel like I am in prison.
01:09You understand what I'm saying?
01:10I'm in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s.
01:15Like I'm exhausted thinking about what if I can't see my dad for his birthday?
01:20You know, at 94, you know, the day after that is not promised, it's not promised.
01:26Like I want to give my dad some sort of fragrance, you know, I want to go to Sephora and pick
01:31and choose.
01:32What?
01:33My life is like f***ed up.
01:42She's prepared for the fact that her phone might be taken away.
01:45What if they take my phone?
01:46I won't be able to talk to anybody.
01:49Well, here's the thing about her phone.
01:51She does not have a cell phone and it's a landline and she can call out, but nobody
01:57can call her.
01:59Why are they doing that to her?
02:00Why would you block her from the outside world unless you don't want people on the outside
02:08to know what she's saying?
02:10That should alarm everybody.
02:12Yeah.
02:13That should alarm everybody.
02:15So in addition to this, guys, her niece, Alex, was also joined in on the call and explained
02:20that just the living conditions that Wendy's experiencing are absolutely terrible.
02:24They say that she's cooped up in this small room in New York City where she only has basic
02:29necessities and one of the biggest concerns is just a small window that doesn't give her
02:34enough sunlight.
02:35And keep in mind, she has breakfast, lunch and dinner in her bed.
02:38She can't go outside.
02:39In fact, she says that she has to use a key to go down the elevator.
02:44And it's, I guess, difficult for her to leave the building on her own accord.
02:48My biggest question is why is she deciding to speak out now?
02:51She claims that this has been going on, this type of mistreatment, for three years.
02:56She granted she's good friends with Charlemagne.
02:57Yeah, well, I think, Jacob, I think that's the answer.
03:01A week ago, she called Charlemagne and once he had that conversation with her, he said
03:06she seemed well enough that she could do a radio show the next day.
03:10And I think then they made some decision that, yeah, she'll do exactly that and she
03:15did.
03:16And it does sound like some members of her family, certainly her niece, said this.
03:21They said they want people to be on social media posting hashtag Free Wendy, much the
03:26way we heard the Free Britney movement.
03:30And they're wondering, I think, it seems like her family is wondering, why isn't there this
03:34cry for Wendy to be free the way there was for Britney?
03:37They don't know yet.
03:38And that's one of the reasons she's coming forward.
03:40And I got to say, personally, the Free Britney movement missed one huge point, which is she
03:49has a real mental illness that was diagnosed and almost died when that, before that conservatorship
03:57was established.
03:58The conservatorship saved her life.
04:01And there were reasons for it here.
04:04I think this is much sketchier.
04:06So to her family's point, if you were on board for Free Britney, you should definitely be
04:12on board for Free Wendy.
04:13Times two.
04:14Yeah.
04:15And look, when you watch that documentary on her and she was out of her head, what I'm
04:20told by sources who are directly connected to this, that a lot of this had to do with
04:25alcohol.
04:26And Wendy had an alcohol problem.
04:28Right now, what I'm told is she is free of alcohol and you can, she's free of alcohol
04:33because they're not giving her any, obviously.
04:36And she's on mood stabilizers.
04:39But that aside, you know, the alcohol may have made her appear the way she was, but
04:45you don't take an alcoholic and put them under a guardianship.
04:49You just don't do that.
04:51Send them to rehab and then hope they get better.
04:54But something is odd here.
04:56Yeah.
04:57And it's odd.
04:58And it's clear they want, the family wants a change here and Wendy very much wants this
05:03change.
05:04Another thing that's really interesting is she talked about Diddy.
05:07And I think this goes to the clarity that she is speaking with.
05:12Charlemagne asked her about Diddy's case.
05:16For those who don't know, and you're going to hear Charlemagne reference this, there's
05:20a long history between Diddy and Wendy.
05:24As the story goes, Diddy got her fired back in 1998 from her job at Hot 97.
05:31So here's what Charlemagne asked her.
05:33You got fired from Hot 97 years ago because of Diddy.
05:36All these years later, to see where Diddy currently is, what do you feel about that
05:39situation?
05:40That's right.
05:41Hey, hey, hey.
05:42When I watch TMZ and I see the stuff that goes on, I'm like, oh my God, Diddy will go
05:46to prison for life, people.
05:47You don't know things that I knew about Diddy back in the day.
05:50And you want to know what?
05:52It's about time, people.
05:54It is about time.
05:55Diddy done.
05:56Wow.
05:57Again.
05:58She sounded like she was doing her show there.
06:02Absolutely.
06:03She sounds like she is on the air.
06:06I mean, she was on the air, but doing her show.
06:10Right.
06:11I get it.
06:12There is something.
06:13This thing has got to be mined because there is something wrong with somebody her age,
06:20with her mental acuity, being locked up in an old folks home without any access to the
06:26outside world.
06:28There's something wrong here.
06:30Now, it is true that if someone has dementia, that they can have periods where they do seem
06:38lucid and clear, but it would be risky for her to go on to do an interview for a half
06:45hour.
06:46And a free-flowing interview.
06:47Right.
06:48Because at any point, if she gets off of that, that's going to be on the air.
06:52Oh, listen to that.
06:53She's going off.
06:54That didn't happen.
06:55And it didn't happen, right.
06:56And it didn't happen a week ago when Charlemagne talked to her then.
06:59And I have talked personally to people in her life who are telling me the same thing.
07:04So this is alarming.
07:07It is simply alarming.
07:08Hi, I'm Hope.
07:10I'm in L.A. and I think it's absolutely absurd that Wendy Williams is in a conservatorship.
07:15It's like, have we learned nothing from the Free Britney situation?
07:19I think these conservatorships are completely immoral and abusive in many cases, like in
07:24Wendy's.
07:25There are cases, though, where it is necessary.
07:28The question is, is it necessary here?
07:30I think some hard questions need to be asked here.
07:33Yes, indeed.