Wendy Williams is opening up in her first live interview since a bombshell Lifetime documentary gave a peek into her life after her frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.

The former talk show host, 60, called into the Breakfast Club Thursday morning with guest host Loren LoRosa, and fixtures DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God — Charlamagne co-hosted “The Wendy Williams Experience” radio show with Williams in the 2000s.
Charlamagne said Williams was calling into the show because she was “trapped in a conservatorship” and could not leave where she was located.

“I am not cognitively impaired. But I feel like I am in prison,” Williams said. “I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s. There’s something wrong with these people here on this floor.”
Wendy Williams’ niece backs her up

Williams and her niece Alex Finnie, who was also on the call, said the facility is high security. And because her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, has her previous phone, she can only make calls, meaning no one can call her. “They won’t allow you to leave or have visitors,” she said. “So you can’t even leave and take a walk if you wanted to, or take a trip or visit family members.”
“That’s been the reality since 2023,” Finnie said, calling the living arrangements a “luxury prison.”

“She’s there every day, all hours of the day, every week, every month, she’s not getting proper sunlight,” Finnie continued. “I went to New York in October to visit her. And the level of security and the level of questions that there were in terms of, ‘Who am I? Why am I here? What’s the purpose?’ I mean, it was absolutely just horrible.”
In addition to her phone being taken away, Williams said she cannot make purchases and has to have someone get everything for her. The former “Wendy Williams Show” host said she also recently learned that her two “twin” cats had been given away and that she has gotten pushback when trying to pick her own doctors.

Williams added that she wants to visit her 94-year-old father for his birthday in February but is afraid her guardian will not allow her to go. “At 94, the day after that is not promised,” she said, crying.
Finnie affirmed that she believes Morrissey may retaliate due to what was being said in the interview.

“I said, ‘You know, we do this, you’re ready for what’s on the other side?’ And as she said, ‘I have to do this. There’s nothing else I could do at this point,'” Williams’ niece said. “She’s prepared for the fact that her phone might taken away. What you’re hearing now is a few minute clip of what we’ve been dealing with for the last several months and the last two, three years.”
Finnie said the family was not allowed to see her during the airing of her Lifetime documentary, “Where is Wendy Williams?” and did not know where she was. She said the family is fearful she may be moved without notice or ability to contact her.

“My aunt sounds great,” Finnie said. “I’ve seen her in a very limited capacity, but I’ve seen her. We’re talking to her. This does not match an incapacitated person.”