Wendy Williams has some good and some bad days when it comes to her health, but people should not assume she's totally fine just because she's doing interviews ... so says the attorney for the Wendy Williams guardianship.
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00:00Wendy Williams is saying she is a prisoner she wants out of this guardianship right and the guardianship or the attorney for the guardianship
00:09Says those interviews that you heard Wendy doing yesterday are not representative of what she is really going through
00:17We talked about the fact that she sounded really lucid seemed fine did not sound incapacitated in any way and
00:25We will you know
00:27We'll play a little bit in a minute, but the Guardian clearly heard that yeah guardian heard that and the guard and heard what the
00:33Public was saying because everyone said when they were like wait
00:35When do you mean so fine and the hashtag free Wendy was trending yesterday as a result, but?
00:41Roberta Kaplan the attorney for the guardianship told us
00:44that despite all that Wendy Williams suffers from frontal lobe dementia a
00:50Degenerative brain disease that has no cure as a result a state court found her to be legally incapacitated
00:57Meaning that she is not capable of making legal and financial decisions on her own
01:02unfortunately because of her diagnosis
01:04Wendy's condition will only get worse with time and she will require care for the rest of her life now
01:10juxtapose that
01:12With what she said and how she sounded on Charlamagne show in the Breakfast Club yesterday
01:19I am NOT cognitively impaired. You know what I'm saying though, but I feel like I am in prison you understand what I'm saying
01:25I'm in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s like I am I'm exhausted thinking about
01:33What if I can't see my dad for his birthday?
01:35You know at 94 you know the day after that is not
01:40Promise it's not like I want to give my dad some sort of fragrance
01:44You know I want to go to Sephora and pick and choose what?
01:47I
01:49Yeah
01:51My life is like
01:53There are a couple of things certainly I have questions about and I think you do absolutely one of them is this
02:01Let's say the diagnosis is accurate that she has frontal lobe dementia
02:06That doesn't mean the day. She's diagnosed that she's incompetent
02:11That is a disease that gradually becomes debilitating is she there yet?
02:17Because for example if somebody has Alzheimer's the day they have it. They don't go into a conservatorship. They live their life
02:24They're allowed to live their life
02:26Until they reach that point where they can't without without a guardian
02:30but Wendy Williams has the means to hire 24-hour care and
02:35She wants freedom and she's it's sort of like who do you believe me or your lion eyes?
02:41Because when you listen to this even if she has periods where she's not
02:47Competent she is competent a lot of the now. I mean that's clear Harvey
02:51I mean you say she's competent a lot of the time. I think her attorney pointed out
02:54She has some good days and some bad days
02:56So maybe this was one of her better days when she was speaking on the breakfast club and maybe their days
03:01Where she's not doing as well. I mean she's been appointed to living in this care facility by a judge
03:07So clearly they've been looking at the matter as well and maybe I've determined that Wendy isn't capable of living the life the way
03:15that she's describing she wants let's I
03:18Just wonder about that decision which you know, the attorney said those look a court decided
03:25That this needed to be put in place. No, but I wonder in chip not the way it's being handled, right?
03:31But my point is that decision when was that decision made? We know that Wendy
03:36You know when we saw the condition she was in in the lifetime series and it seemed alcohol was a big part, right?
03:42And I'm curious whether or not when that determination was made by the court that she needed to have this guardianship put in place
03:49Was that based more on the fact that she was out of control?
03:53With you know, that was of alcohol and I agree with you, but here's the thing. Let's say the guardians, right?
04:00Okay
04:01Why then do you?
04:04Prohibit her from having a cell phone. Why then do you say nobody can call her?
04:10Why then do you say she can't have a laptop?
04:13Why then do you say she can't go out and dinner with danger? What's the danger?
04:18What's the danger if there are all these bumpers put in place?
04:22Financially that no one can take advantage of her scammer because the guardians have control of her money
04:27So, what are they? Why are they were they hiding her? Why are they Heidi? There's something William. There's either
04:36Something is missing here because that that's the big question
04:38I I there's that's why she feels like a prisoner right and that's why she feels like I think for her
04:43There's that's exactly the point. She's like, I don't who are they protecting me from?
04:47Who are they protecting her from what is going on that? She can't have a cell phone
04:53What is going on that she can't really communicate with the outside world unless she has a landline where she can call out
04:59But that's it. Nobody can call her and her family can't call her. What are they protecting her from?