Wendy Williams sent a firm four-word message to the judge and the guardian who are in control of her affairs: “Get off my neck!”
The former talk show host told off the authorities behind her conservatorship during a pretaped phone interview that aired on Friday’s episode of “The View.”
Williams’ comments came a few days after she dropped a note reading, “Help! Wendy!” from the fifth story of a New York assisted-living facility.
After New York police showed up, Williams was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital for an independent cognitive examination.
Williams has been under a guardianship with Sabrina Morrissey, a court-appointed caregiver, since 2022. However, a caregiver not associated with the guardianship ordered Monday’s hospital visit to determine if Williams’ claims of being held prisoner have validity, according to TMZ.
She previously compared living in the facility to being trapped “in a prison” during an interview in January with “The Breakfast Club.”
On Friday’s episode of “The View,” things got tense after co-host Sunny Hostin read a statement from Morrissey’s lawyer.
The statement said the conservatorship was set up by “a judge that declared [Williams] legally incapacitated after a diagnosis of frontal temporal dementia.”
Williams was diagnosed with dementia and aphasia in February 2024 but has disputed that she’s cognitively impaired.
“They say I have incapacitation,” she said on the Friday show. “I do not.”
The attorney statement Hostin read also disputed Williams’ claim that she is being kept from seeing family members and asserted that she is receiving excellent medical care.
After reading the statement, Hostin pointed out that Williams helped her get started in media and asked her old friend how she kept her spirits up with everything going on in her life.
Williams, who sounded lucid throughout the interview, said that she’s “been doing important things” all of her life before suggesting that the judge and guardian aren’t really seeing things from her perspective.
“These two people don’t look like me, they don’t dress like me, they don’t talk like me, they don’t act like me,” she said. “And I venture to say they will never be me.”
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She added that she needs them to “get off my neck!”
Williams said that she needs a new guardian and that once she gets that guardian, she will “get out” of the guardianship.