Wendy Williams Claims She Was Only Allowed Outside Twice in 30 Days amid Guardianship: ‘I Want My Life Back’

Mar. 15, 2025

Wendy Williams in 2018.Photo:Paras Griffin/Getty

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Wendy Williamsis opening up about her life in an assisted living facility.

When asked about what her life has been like in the past year living in the facility in the documentary, Williams said: “Isolated.”

“Where I am is this place where the people are older. You know what I’m saying? They are in their 90s [and] 80s,” she claimed while speaking to TMZ on the phone. “They call this the memory unit. I am part of the memory unit. A memory unit, in other words, what? Somebody who doesn’t remember crap.”

“Are you serious?" she added. “This is my life.”

“I’ve asked the guardian person for an iPad since… years it seems like. ‘Can I please have my telephone back? Can I please be able to call, you know, my family?' " she claimed she asked. “‘What is the problem with me calling and talking to friends of mine?’ They’re not allowed to come in here.”

When TMZ asked her how much time “over the last 30 days” she was able to “spend outside in the fresh air,” Williams said that she had only gone out “twice” for “her teeth.”

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When TMZ asked her whether her guardian told her why there were “so many restrictions" placed on her “ability to live life like normal people” do, she responded, “It’s just weird.”

“[Morrissey] doesn’t want me to do that,” she alleged. “That’s all I can say to you. All I know is that she doesn’t want me to do that, and that’s a fact. And I want my life back.”

PEOPLE reached out to Morrissey for comment about Williams' allegations, but did not receive an immediate response.

Williams' claims come one month after she denied that she was “incapacitated” during an appearance onThe Breakfast Clubradio show, saying, “I don’t have frontotemporal dementia … it’s disgusting. That’s a very rare thing for anybody to have.”

Morrissey has anongoing lawsuitagainst A&E Television Networks and others for its distribution of the docuseries,Where Is Wendy Williams?, which she claims she filed to “recover substantial monetary damages for the benefit of [Williams], which could be used to help pay for [her] significant healthcare needs going forward.”

source: people.com