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(NewsNation) — Former speech amusement big Wendy Williams says her guardianship feels similar a situation and that she suspects her guardian whitethorn beryllium misusing her money.
"I request retired of this," Williams said during a nationalist “Banfield” exclusive, claiming that adjacent her toiletries are locked distant and she indispensable inquire support to usage them.
"If I privation lotion, they bring maine lotion. If I privation to instrumentality disconnected my nail polish ... if I privation to brushwood my teeth and lavation my face, they person to bring it to me," she said.
Since 2022, Williams has been staying nether the absorption of court-appointed conservator Sabrina Morrissey.
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Wendy Williams' guardianship
The erstwhile big remains nether court-ordered guardianship aft being diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.
In 2022, Wells Fargo initiated guardianship proceedings where Morrissey was made guardian aft Williams’ amusement got canceled arsenic a effect of her wellness problems.
Morrisey filed lawsuits past twelvemonth against aggregate parties progressive successful the instauration of Lifetime’s controversial documentary, “Where is Wendy Williams?” saying Williams was “highly susceptible and intelligibly incapable of consenting to beryllium filmed, overmuch little humiliated and exploited,” according to court documents.
She described Williams arsenic “an acclaimed entertainer who, tragically, has been afflicted by early-onset dementia and, arsenic a result, has go cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
While she sought to artifact Lifetime from releasing the series, a tribunal ruled it could beryllium released arsenic planned.
Journalist: Wendy Williams' alleged attraction raises superior concerns
Investigative writer Diane Dimond believes the alleged handling of the concern by Williams’ guardian raises superior concerns.
“I judge that transgression things hap wrong the guardianship strategy each the time, and we don’t cognize astir it due to the fact that it’s specified a damn concealed system,” Dimond said during a erstwhile "Banfield" interview.
Williams continues to accidental she is not “cognitively impaired” and has been “trapped” successful an emotionally abusive conservatorship.
NewsNation's Safia Samee Ali contributed to this report.
