Don Lemon Asks Wendy Williams If She Is 'Incapacitated' in New Interview: 'Hell F---ing No'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Wendy Williamsis setting the record straight on her health.

Afteropening up in a rare interview with Charlamagne tha God onThe Breakfast Clubon Jan. 16, Williams, 60, also spoke to her longtime friendDon Lemonfor his podcast,The Don Lemon Show, as she continued to reveal the dire circumstances oflife under her conservatorship.

“My life is ridiculous,” she told the former CNN anchor. “I’ve been with this guardian person for three years. For three years of my life… I’m isolated. I feel like I’m in prison. I can’t go out. All I can do is look at the window.”

When Lemon said that her court-appointed guardian Sabrina Morrissey “has said you’re incapacitated permanently and that you have dementia,” which Morrissey claimed in a November court filing, Williams admitted, “I don’t know how much I can talk without being punished.”

She expressed her concern that she “won’t be able to see my dad, and I won’t be able to do anything, and I’ll be stuck in this prison I’m in for the rest of my life” should she open up about certain parts of her guardianship, which began in May 2022 andhas left her family without access to her.

Wendy Williams and her son Kevin Hunter Jr. Honored With Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on October 17, 2019 in Hollywood, California.Leon Bennett/WireImage

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“I’m not in a good position,” Williams continued. “My life is screwed up. You know, this guardian mess is — please, look, I am isolated. I feel like I’m in prison. I feel like, you know, they’re trying to control me and everything that I do.”

PEOPLE has reached out to Morrissey for comment.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who is suing A&E, Lifetime and the producers of theWhere Is Wendy Williams?docuseries on behalf of Williams, says the former talk show host “suffers from frontal lobe dementia, a degenerative brain disease that has no cure.”

Williams said that the “only thing that I can do for myself is I can keep myself of sound mind and body,” but she told Lemon that the “old age home” where she’s living in N.Y.C. is not exactly conducive to that.

“The people that live here are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s. And I don’t know, maybe they’re 60 like me, I can’t tell. People are in wheelchairs,” she said, adding that the other people who live there are “not of my sound mind and body.”

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TheWendy Williams Showhost also told Lemon during the interview that she wants to get back to work.

“I don’t want to work, like, five days a week. I want to pick and choose what kind of work I want to do because that’s the type of person I am now,” she said.

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She also doubled down on her desire to relocate to Miami, where her family, includingher son Kevin Hunter Jr.and her 93-year-old dad live. “I wanna pick and I wanna do it in Miami. And I want to pick and choose because that’s the type of person I’ve become, and that’s the type of person I always wanted to be — living in Miami with my family.”

A source with knowledge of the matter explained that the guardianship court ultimately decides whether it is safe for Williams to travel to Florida or other locations. She is currently in a facility with 24/7 medical care.

source: people.com