Wendy Williams
I am Dwelling Like a Convicted Prison
… Due to a Draconian Guardianship
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Wendy Williams can relate to hardcore criminals — not that she’s dedicated a criminal offense — however her life mirrors somebody confined to a jail cell.
TMZ has dropped a documentary on Tubi, “TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy” … which explores her guardianship which has now gone on for years. As she says, her life is remoted. She’s in a New York Metropolis assisted residing facility, the place she is confined to a room on the fifth ground.
Wendy can’t go away the ground with out permission from the employees. She says she’s been exterior within the recent air twice within the final 30 days … each occasions for dentist appointments.
Virtually nobody is allowed to go to her. Nobody can name her. She will make calls out, however that is it. She has no entry to the web. She eats in her room as a result of she says it is extraordinarily miserable to be round 90-year-olds with critical well being issues.
Harvey and others have spent hours on the telephone with Wendy, and to an individual everybody says she’s again to the outdated Wendy. She’s lucid, following conversations, and is participating … she’s herself once more.
The guardian says Wendy is completely disabled because of Frontotemporal Dementia … downside is, the situation by no means will get higher. Wendy was in dangerous form a couple of years in the past when she was ingesting closely, however she’s sober now and her psychological state has radically improved … many say again to regular, but she’s nonetheless beneath an extremely restrictive guardianship.
The one approach we may shoot the documentary was to have a digital camera positioned on the sidewalk the place we shot her on the window on the fifth ground as she spoke with us by telephone.
The documentary — “TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy” — is obtainable free on Tubi.
