Wendy Williams has disclaimed that she is ‘not cognitively impaired’ despite earlier reports that suggested she was permanently incapacitated.
The former talk show host called into The Breakfast Club on Thursday morning, speaking openly about her conservatorship and describing it as a ‘prison’ where she feels ‘trapped.’
This marked her first public interview since her revelations in Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams documentary.
Accompanied by her niece, Alex Finnie, Williams alleged she had been subjected to ’emotional abuse’ by her caregivers.
She expressed dissatisfaction with her living conditions at a New York facility for elderly patients, claiming she is not allowed access to her phone or laptop while under guardianship.
She said, ‘I am not cognitively impaired, but I feel like I am in prison.
‘I am definitely isolated. To talk to these people who live here, that is not my cup of tea.’
The former Wendy Williams Show host also claimed her cats have been taken and are ‘gone’ despite her ‘wanting them with’ her.
Williams, who is diagnosed with progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), went on to reveal the medication she is allegedly forced to take while at the facility.
‘Where I am, okay? You have to get keys to unlock the door to press the elevator to go downstairs,’ she explained. ‘Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid, so to speak. They come in and give your pills, and then you leave.’
