TV personality Wendy Williams has been under a guardianship since 2022, after her bank Wells Fargo, reported unusual behaviour with her finances and the star’s frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. Her niece, Alex Finnie, has since spoken out and declared that Williams is being “denied her freedom”, per E! News.
Finnie, who is a former TV host, claimed that her aunt feels “trapped” in the New York City facility currently housing Williams – Coterie Senior Living – and that she is being “punished” under the guardianship.
“She is being held, and she is being punished,” Finnie said. “For whatever reason that other people are coming up with as to why she has to be kept in this position.”
“The longer she’s under this guardianship, the longer they have the keys to her life.”
Fans of Williams have been speaking out against the guardianship under the hashtag #FreeWendy, mirroring the movement that helped popstar Britney Spears leave her own guardianship.
“Wendy Williams is not incapacitated. Those people will isolate her and possibly drug her until she is tho,” an X (formerly Twitter) user wrote.
“Wendy Williams has done a ton of interviews over the last couple of months – some were very long! It’s clear she is fine!” wrote another.
#FreeWendy has taken off on social media. (Source: X)
Finnie and Williams were also interviewed by Entertainment Tonight in the latter’s first on-camera appearance in years, outside of Coterie Senior Living in NYC.
When asked by the cameraman on how she feels about the ‘Free Wendy’ movement, Williams described it as “fabulous”.
Finnie criticised Coterie Senior Living in the video, claiming that “police were called” after she took her aunt out of the facility without confirmation, which she states goes against the guardianship’s original statements on Wendy’s movement.
“[I’m] wondering exactly how that correlates with the statements that the guardian has made,” Finnie said in the video.
“[The statement says] Wendy is able to come and go as she pleases, and that there are no family visits that are blocked.”
Williams later chimes in stating, “clearly they are lying to me”.
An anonymous lawyer representing Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, sent a letter to TMZ stating that the media coverage of Williams’ guardianship is “untrue, inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading”.
On Friday Williams also called into popular daytime TV show The View and spoke via phone, stating that Morrissey needs to “get off my neck”.
“How dare [the guardianship] say I have incapacitation. I do not,” Williams said to comedian and co-host Joy Behar.
Co-host Sunny Hostin read out a statement from Morrissey’s lawyer about how the guardianship “was created by a judge who declared [Williams] legally incapacitated” and asked Williams on how she “kept her spirits up”.
“I am a college-educated woman,” Williams said in response.
“I’ve been doing important things all my life, these two people don’t look like me, they don’t dress like me, they don’t talk like me, they don’t act like me, and I venture to say they’ll never be me.”
“Get off my neck! I can’t do it with these two people. And I’m speaking of the guardians and the judge.”
Williams is known for her talk show The Wendy Williams Show which ran for 14 seasons, as well as her extensive career in radio.
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