So much for Wendy Williams being able to come and go as she pleases and spend time with her family ... because the facility where she is being housed has filed a police report claiming that her niece broke the law by taking her to dinner.
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00:00Well, Wendy Williams had dinner and a police report last night.
00:05She did not order the second part.
00:06Yeah, at least that's the way it was put to us
00:10by people connected to Wendy.
00:11So we told you that Wendy had gone to a New York hospital
00:16to get a competency test, and she was there for three days.
00:20She went back to this facility she's
00:22been at late in the afternoon yesterday with her niece,
00:27Alex, Alex Finney.
00:30And Alex decided we should go out and celebrate.
00:33Sure.
00:33Because she had done so well on the competency test,
00:36they feel like this is a big step toward her getting out
00:41of this guardianship.
00:42So they go out to dinner.
00:44And as soon as they sit down, during dinner,
00:47they get a phone call from Wendy's attorneys
00:52saying that the facility is actually
00:56filing a police report against Alex
00:59because she had taken, in their eyes,
01:02taken Wendy without authorization.
01:05Out of the building.
01:06Out of the building without authorization.
01:08And so therefore, it was essentially kidnapping.
01:10So we told you that Wendy is locked on the fifth floor
01:15memory unit of this facility.
01:17And she can only go down if an attendant
01:20pushes the elevator button.
01:21There are several things that are unbelievable about this.
01:24The first of which is, two nights ago,
01:27we got a letter from the lawyer for The Guardian saying,
01:32all of these stories about Wendy being restrictive,
01:36they're just not true.
01:37Because Wendy can come and go as she pleases,
01:40and they've never tried to keep her away from her family.
01:44Well, that's kind of interesting.
01:45Because Alex Finney says, they called the cops on me.
01:49And so that's number one.
01:52Number two, Alex Finney says it is all BS
01:58that they left with the full cooperation of the facility.
02:03Right, that the attendant hit the elevator,
02:06let them down there, and actually
02:09walked them to their car.
02:10And opened the door of the Uber.
02:12So you can imagine their shock when they got back
02:14to the facility last night.
02:17We were there.
02:18This is what they had to say about a simple dinner that
02:21turned into this ordeal.
02:22How do you feel about the free Wendy Boorman?
02:26I feel so bad.
02:27Fabulous.
02:28Fabulous.
02:29So our recent events have been unbelievable.
02:33Police were called.
02:35But I was told that, at some point,
02:38police were called because the porter here
02:40was saying, allegedly, that I took my mom, excuse me,
02:44my aunt from this facility, and whizzed her away
02:48without any sort of confirmation or approval.
02:52Which, according to everything that we have learned,
02:54in terms of this whole situation,
02:56wondering exactly how that correlates with the statements
03:00that the guardian has made, that Wendy
03:03is able to come and go as she pleases,
03:05and that there are no family visits that are blocked.
03:07Clearly, they are lying to me when
03:10they say I can go out and do what I want to do.
03:13I just came from the hospital.
03:15So we are going out to celebrate.
03:18You know what I'm saying?
03:18Celebrate what?
03:20I don't know.
03:20I'm from the hospital.
03:22You know what I'm saying?
03:23And of the life.
03:24And this is what that does.
03:27So what we were told this morning
03:30is that when they got back, which
03:33is what you're looking at, to this facility,
03:37the managers were just falling all over themselves,
03:40apologizing, saying, oh, we're sorry.
03:43This was a misunderstanding.
03:44The police weren't there when they arrived.
03:45The police were not waiting for us.
03:46And so it's got to be embarrassing,
03:49I would think, that all of this happened last night.
03:54On the heels, I mean, it's embarrassing for the facility.
03:56It is embarrassing for the guardianship,
03:58having said, oh, she's got plenty of freedom.
04:03Well, no, she doesn't.
04:04No, she doesn't.
04:06Where do things stand?
04:07Does she have the freedom to come and go as she pleases?
04:10No.
04:10Has it been suggested?
04:11Or does she not?
04:12But maybe now.
04:14No.
04:15No, I understand that she hasn't.
04:16But just hear me out.
04:18As a theory of what happened last night
04:20is that they did start to make this call
04:23to file a police report.
04:25And that the guardian goes, whoa, whoa, whoa.
04:29We just said that she is free to go.
04:31We cannot do this now.
04:32We cannot do this now.
04:34Here's the theory.
04:35But here's why the theory doesn't work.
04:37I hear you.
04:37But here's why it doesn't work.
04:39If she was on any other floor in this facility,
04:43yeah, I would get it.
04:44She is on a particular floor, the fifth floor,
04:47the memory unit.
04:48She can only have access downstairs
04:52to any place in the building or outside
04:55if an attendant says yes.
04:57And they are very restrictive about this in that facility.
05:02So that's definitely true.
05:03I've been in one of these facilities before.
05:04When you're on the lockdown floor,
05:06you cannot operate the elevator without a pass card.
05:08So she's locked down in practice.
05:11In theory, should she?
05:13I mean, putting aside what we believe,
05:14based on where things are now,
05:16should she be on a different floor?
05:18Should she be given full access to the outside?
05:20It seems that maybe she should.
05:21I can answer that.
05:22So what happened here was about eight or nine months ago
05:25when Wendy arrived at this facility,
05:28because I spoke with a person
05:30who currently works at this facility,
05:32and we spoke to somebody who has left the facility
05:35but confirmed the story.
05:37And they said this, that Wendy was on the third floor,
05:40which has, you know, she can go in and out.
05:43The first or second day,
05:45Wendy went up to the restaurant
05:47and she drank too much and got drunk.
05:50And this is when she was still having problems.
05:53She's sober now, but the facility was horrified at it.
05:59And what the employee told me was,
06:02they decided we gotta keep her under lock and key,
06:05not because of her memory,
06:07because this employee said her memory is fine.
06:09We just wanted her on lockdown.
06:11So we put her there.
06:12We didn't have this drinking issue
06:14and we wanted to control her movement within the building
06:16so that she couldn't get to alcohol.
06:18Which is weird for her to be in a memory unit
06:21when her memory,
06:24and you can tell from the psychiatrist, is fine.
06:26Hi, Tina here.
06:28And there's a lot to unpack.
06:30I'm very happy that these people apologized
06:33because I don't see how you get
06:34from an attendant getting her in the elevator
06:38to a police call.
06:40It's really sad.
06:41I can't wait for good Wendy news.
06:43I can't wait for something to be positive.
06:47Let me just say, things are a-brewin'.
06:49And there is movement.
06:51I can tell you that based on what we know.
06:54There is movement in that direction.