00:00wendy williams blasts her luxury assisted living as a dump why a judge says she can't leave the
00:15talk show legend was asked how she likes her dollar to five comment assisted living facility
00:20and she didn't hold back wendy williams built a career on saying exactly what she thinks
00:26so when the cut asked how she felt about her luxury assisted living facility which reportedly
00:31comes with a $25,000 a month price tag her answer landed exactly how you'd expect it's a dump the
00:3961 year old radio hall of fame inductee said in the interview published monday october 6th referring
00:45to her life inside coterie hudson yards did you see the people the elderly people why do i want to
00:50look at that this is a f asterisk asterisk head up situation she told reporter jessica bennett
00:56i can't tell you how many times i've asked that i be moved from this floor williams continued you have
01:03me stuck on this expensive floor with these dying people and i can't have an ipad the judge doesn't
01:08like me and i don't like the judge but she permitted it so why is williams there at all the backstory is
01:15layered legal and fraught with controversy it begins in early 2022 when her bank wells fargo
01:21froze her accounts citing concerns she was the victim of undue influence and financial exploitation
01:26according to the hollywood reporter that led to court intervention in may 2022 attorney sabrina
01:33morrissey was appointed as her guardian granting legal authority over major financial and personal
01:38decisions under that guardianship williams now resides in a facility under oversight consistent with her
01:44guardian's plan then in february 2024 a medical diagnosis became public wendy was reported to have
01:52primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia ftd conditions affecting speech cognition
01:58and behavior over time the diagnosis fueled debates over her autonomy and daily care needs
02:04at the same time lifetime aired where is wendy williams a documentary series that her guardians and
02:11legal team opposed leading to ongoing litigation over control and consent by january of this year
02:18williams was using media appearances to push back she phoned into the breakfast club in good day new
02:23york insisting she's not cognitively impaired and calling the guardianship unfair she claimed she was
02:30allowed outside just twice in 30 days and said living there felt like being in a prison during a march call
02:35to the view she yelled get off my neck in frustration while discussing her confinement according to page
02:42six soon after a legal team defended the guardianship in filing citing medical evaluations cognitive diagnoses
02:50and the documented need for structured care in august people reported that a judge reviewed a new medical
02:56evaluation and ruled to uphold the guardianship this reaffirmed that at least for now her care and major
03:03decisions remain bound by court oversight then in september a separate federal court ordered williams to sit
03:09for a debena essi deposition as part of the ongoing lawsuit tied to the where is wendy williams series
03:15reinforcing that despite diminished autonomy her voice still matters in the legal battle
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