Wendy Williams Seen Out to Dinner with Niece Alex Finnie 2 Days After Being Taken to the Hospital by NYPD

Mar. 15, 2025

Wendy Williams returns to Coterie, the assisted living facility she’s in, after dinner with her niece Alex Finnie in New York City on March 12.Photo:Santi Ramales / BACKGRID

Santi Ramales / BACKGRID

Wendy Williamswas spotted in public after herhospital visit earlier this week.

On Wednesday, March 12, the former talk show host, 60, was seen in New York City with her niece Alex Finnie as she returned to the assisted living facility she’s been in for the last several months amid her ongoing conservatorship battle.

The NYPD were responding to a welfare check on Williams, a spokesperson told PEOPLE, after she had allegedly dropped a note out of her window that read “Help,” perThe New York Post.

Wendy Williams returns to Coterie, the assisted living facility she’s in, after dinner with her niece Alex Finnie in New York City on March 12.Santi Ramales / BACKGRID

The next day, Williams called intoGood Day New Yorkfrom the hospital andclaimed she received mental competency tests and “passed with flying colors"despite her 2023dementia diagnosisandrepeated claims from her court-appointed guardian that she is “cognitively impaired.”

Her caretaker Ginalia Monterrosa was with her at the hospital and told the news outlet Williams had undergone tests and it had “been deemed she is not incapacitated.”

“I think it’s great news, and it’s public, and everybody knows factually that Wendy’s not incapacitated,” Monterrosa said.

Wendy Williams in Lifetime’s ‘Where is Wendy Williams?'.Lifetime

Lifetime

It was not the first time the formerWendy Williams Showhost claimed she is not mentally incapacitated, despite her guardian’s reports that she is. In February,Williams insisted she was “not incapacitated” and does not “have frontotemporal dementia,” whichher medical team said she had been diagnosed with in February 2024.

She’s been speaking out more frequently in recent months about the state of her treatment, including an interview onThe Breakfast Clubin January where she said she feels like she’s “in prison.”

“Listen, this system is broken, this system that I am in. This system has falsified a lot,” she said on the podcast. “For the last three years, I have been caught up in the system.”

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Her niece Finnie joined her on the episode and also weighed in as she asked for her aunt to be treated “with dignity and give[n] the freedoms she deserves” while acknowledging that the “legal situation” prevents them from addressing certain things.

“But I think the thing we can talk about is that my aunt sounds great. I’ve seen her in a very limited capacity. I’ve seen her, we’re talking to her. This does not match an incapacitated person. That’s why we say she’s in a luxury prison. Because she’s being held and she’s being punished for whatever reason that other people are coming up with as to why it is she has to be kept in this position.”

source: people.com