{"id":144293,"date":"2025-01-16T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/wendy-williams-speaks-out-says-shes-not-cognitively-impaired-feels-like-shes-living-in-a-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:46:38","slug":"wendy-williams-speaks-out-says-shes-not-cognitively-impaired-feels-like-shes-living-in-a-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/wendy-williams-speaks-out-says-shes-not-cognitively-impaired-feels-like-shes-living-in-a-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Williams Speaks Out, Says She\u2019s \u2018Not Cognitively Impaired\u2019 &#038; Feels Like She\u2019s Living in a Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/wendy-williams\/\" title=\"Wendy Williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wendy Williams<\/strong><\/a> is speaking out in a major interview on <em><strong>The Breakfast Club<\/strong><\/em> on Thursday morning (January 16).<\/p>\n<p>If you were unaware, she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2022\/05\/22\/wendy-williams-reacts-to-courts-decision-to-assign-her-a-financial-guardian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">placed under a guardianship<\/a> in 2022. Earlier this year, it was reported that she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/02\/22\/wendy-williams-diagnosed-with-frontotemporal-dementia-aphasia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia<\/a> and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/11\/26\/wendy-williams-permanently-incapacitated-due-to-early-on-set-dementia-guardian-says-in-new-legal-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared \u201cpermanently incapacitated\u201d<\/a> by her guardian. <\/p>\n<p>About the diagnoses she was publicly given, the 60-year-old former talk show host asked the hosts <strong>DJ Envy<\/strong>, <strong>Charlamagne Tha God<\/strong> and <strong>Jess Hilarious<\/strong>, \u201cDo I seem that way, god damn it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2081459\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s currently living in a care facility where she is able to make calls, but not receive calls. She doesn\u2019t have access to the Internet, and she no longer has her beloved cats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what is called emotional abuse,\u201d <strong>Wendy <\/strong>said.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cI am not cognitively impaired, you know what I\u2019m saying? But I feel like I\u2019m in prison. I\u2019m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s \u2026 There\u2019s something wrong with these people here on this floor.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do I think about being abused? Look, this system is broken, this system that I\u2019m in. This system has falsified a lot,\u201d she continued. <\/p>\n<p>The interview comes a few weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/12\/20\/wendy-williams-attends-special-event-for-her-son-weeks-after-being-declared-permanently-incapacitated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wendy<\/strong> quietly stepped out for a very special day<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/01\/16\/wendy-williams-speaks-out-says-shes-not-cognitively-impaired-feels-like-shes-living-in-a-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Williams is speaking out in a major interview on The Breakfast Club on Thursday morning (January 16). If you were unaware, she was placed under a guardianship in 2022. Earlier this year, it was reported that she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia and was declared \u201cpermanently incapacitated\u201d by her guardian. 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