Wendy Williams Addresses Guardianship While Denying Being “Cognitively Impaired”

Wendy Williams maintains that she is “not cognitively impaired” and feels as though she is “in prison.”

Nearly a year after her care team revealed she had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia, the 60-year-old celebrity, who hosted her own talk show from 2008 to 2022 before Sherri Shepherd took over, is now living in a care facility and is under the guardianship of attorney Sabrina Morrissey.

On Thursday, January 25, she called into “The Breakfast Club” and stated: “You get what I mean? I am not intellectually challenged. However, I feel as though I’m incarcerated.

Those in their 90s, 80s, and 70s form the majority of the population here. These individuals on this floor are acting strangely.

While frontotemporal dementia affects language, conduct, and personality, primary progressive aphasia is an uncommon neurological disorder that impairs communication.

Since 2022, the former daytime host has been under guardianship.

Additionally, her niece Alex called the morning program and expressed her support for her aunt.

To help her aunt, Williams’ niece Alex also called in to the broadcast.

“My aunt sounds great,” she asserted. We are speaking with her, and I have seen her, albeit in a very restricted capacity. An disabled individual does not fit this description.

Because she is being imprisoned and punished for whatever reason other people may think of to justify keeping her in this situation, we say that she is in a luxurious jail.

After she started “to lose words, act erratically at times, and have difficulty understanding financial transactions,” her care team addressed rumors in a news statement confirming her diagnosis last year.

They went on: “The choice to share this news was tough and well thought out, not just to promote empathy and understanding for Wendy, but also to increase awareness about frontotemporal dementia and aphasia and to assist the thousands of people who are going through similar things.

“Sadly, stigma and misunderstanding surround many people with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, especially when they start displaying behavioral abnormalities but haven’t been diagnosed yet.”

Wanda Finnie, Wendy’s sister, stated over a year ago that the family had not heard anything about Wendy since she visited them in Florida in 2021 and that she was not informed of her sibling’s condition when she was admitted to a facility to undergo treatment for cognitive problems.