Wendy Williams Removed from Assisted Living Facility by NYPD, Taken to Hospital in Ambulance

Mar. 15, 2025

Wendy Williamswas unexpectedly taken to the hospital amid herpleas for help.

According to reporting fromThe New York Post,the 60-year-old former talk show host dropped a note out of her window earlier that morning. It allegedly read: “Help! Wendy!!”

Wendy Williams.TMZ

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Williams has been living under a legal guardianshipthat oversees both her finances and health since May 2022. In recent months, she has been in an ongoing legal battle toend her conservatorshipwith her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, who claims Williams is “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated.”

“I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison,” Williams said onThe Breakfast Clubin January. “I’m in this place with people who are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s. …. These people, there’s something wrong with these people here on this floor. I am clearly not.”

She added that elevators in the facility — which she called a “prison” — are locked and visitors are restricted, and she is unable to come and go as she pleases. She also alleged that she is unaware of what medications the facility is administering to her.

Wendy Williams in 2018.Paras Griffin/Getty

Paras Griffin/Getty

“[It has been] a long while,” Williams said, insisting that she “couldn’t” even estimate a general time frame.

“I was in Connecticut for a year and I didn’t go see anybody. I’ve been in here for six or seven months and I haven’t seen anybody,” she claimed.

That same month, Williamsoffered an updateon her status during a segment on NewsNation’sBanfield.

“Well, I don’t have the freedom to do virtually anything,” she said. “As far as where I am, I’m on the fifth floor. They call it ‘the memory unit,’ so it’s for people who don’t remember anything.”

“I’ve met the people who live here and I’ve been here for almost a year now, and this is very suffocating,” she continued.

source: people.com