Wendy Williams does not have the medical condition a judge has used to justify keeping her in a highly restrictive guardianship for more than 3 years, according to a top neurologist.
00:02I am going to try to contain myself because I'm so angry.
00:06I think you're going to fail.
00:07Well, Wendy Williams has had a neurologist, a top neurologist in New York City, examine her.
00:15And we are told that neurologist was clear.
00:19She does not, repeat, does not have frontotemporal dementia.
00:25That is what keeps her in that prison you're looking at right there.
00:28That is, you know, the memory unit of this assisted living facility where they claim she needs to be there because she is suffering from dementia.
00:37That's what the guardians have said.
00:39The guardians claim that they got a test done that said that.
00:43Well, they've had her in this guardianship, a restrictive, brutal guardianship, for three-plus years.
00:50And now a neurologist, a private neurologist, a top neurologist has said she does not have that disease.
00:59I can tell you that, you know, it's sort of the who are you going to believe me or your lion eyes.
01:06I have spoke to Wendy for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours this year.
01:11She's fine.
01:12She is fine.
01:13There is not a day where she's just lost it.
01:16She is the Wendy Williams that you and I have known for 20-plus years.
01:21Same person.
01:22So now armed with this test, what does this mean now for, we know that earlier this year she hired Joe Takapina
01:29and that the goal was to get this guardianship dissolved.
01:35What, how does he take this information now?
01:39Does this go directly to the judge?
01:40It goes to the judge.
01:42There's a two-step process.
01:44You have to first go to the judge and ask the judge to release her from the guardianship.
01:50Based on, and I'm just giving you my opinion here, based on everything the judge and the guardian have done in this case,
01:57I don't think they're going to release her.
01:58I don't think under any circumstance I could think of that they're going to say, okay,
02:04because it's almost acknowledging a mistake.
02:06So then what happens, assuming they're going to not release her, Joe Takapina has a right to demand a jury trial.
02:14And if they have a jury trial, all it's going to take is Wendy to get on the stand and to talk to people for a couple hours about who she is,
02:25how she feels, maybe even do some current events on the stand, just to show the jury that she's fine and she's going to get out.
02:34Now, my understanding of when you are allowed to lock somebody up is when they are a danger to themselves or to others.
02:40Or cannot take care of themselves.
02:42Well, it's a danger to yourself, yes.
02:43Cannot take care of yourself.
02:44And whether or not she's got this condition, now we don't think she has, but whether or not she has it,
02:49the assessment is whether or not she can actually take care of herself, whether she can function and live.
02:53Is there any real belief that she would be an immediate, and this is not just long-term danger to yourself, immediate danger to yourself?
03:01The burden is on the state to prove that she can't.
03:04Well, I have an answer to this.
03:06I have an answer to this.
03:07That I know there have been, these court hearings, this judge has been like, just like Darth Vader
03:14when it comes to, you know, warning and threatening people not to say anything about what goes on in court.
03:21And not just to Wendy, but to other people.
03:23I know this, and they've told me about it.
03:25But, you know, I can tell you that what has come up in court is they're saying,
03:30well, your family is rotten, essentially.
03:33I mean, they didn't use the word rotten, but essentially they're saying that.
03:36That you can't trust your family to take care of you.
03:38Well, look, there have been problems with her son.
03:40I mean, that's why they had a financial guardianship in the first place.
03:43Financial guardianship started.
03:44Because he was going to her bank account.
03:45But that's not what we're talking about at this point.
03:47Financial guardianship might be worth something to need.
03:49Yeah.
03:49Care.
03:50But, well, but, you know, maybe she needs some assistance because she has some other ailments.
03:55But she has Alex Finney, who is her niece, who is just wonderful to her and wants to help her.
04:02Wendy doesn't need assisted living.
04:04Maybe she needs somebody to help her.
04:06She'll get a financial manager, just like other people.
04:09You know, most people are not expert in finance, but they find somebody who can help them.
04:14So you don't put somebody in a guardianship because of that.
04:17If they end up in court, right, the two things you have are, you have this test that says she doesn't have it.
04:23The guardians say they had a test done where she did have it.
04:26But even, so even if you assume that she has it.
04:30Even if you assume that she does have it, you can't put her, lock her up now if she can take care of herself.
04:35There are literally millions of Americans living with dementia right now.
04:39She doesn't have it.
04:40But I know.
04:41But let's not even assume.
04:43Very few of them are locked up against their will.
04:45It was absurd already to have her in it when we know what her condition is, regardless if she had been diagnosed with a dementia.
04:53Because she can take care of herself.
04:54Because she can take care of herself.
04:55And when she can't, then you put her in.
04:57That's right.
04:57And, but now you have a test that says she doesn't even have it.
05:01So what are we talking about?
05:02Why is she still in there?
05:03Well, there are theories about it.
05:05And I'm going to be honest.
05:06I got one.
05:07But I'm not going to say what it is.
05:09Because I'm not going to say what I can't prove.
05:13But what I can say is they're taking $20,000 a month for this residential memory unit facility.
05:22The Guardian's getting paid.
05:24Other people are getting paid.
05:25And it's all coming out of Wendy's account.
05:28And she doesn't even know how much money she has left.
05:30Here's the most outrageous.
05:31They're not even telling her.
05:32The lawyers that are being used to keep her in the guardianship, she has to pay for them.
05:35I know.
05:37It's just unbelievable.
05:39This is an outrage.
05:41Hello, Mark.
05:41Los Angeles.
05:42Man, I don't know if it was an error or we're witnessing a miracle.
05:46But the woman says she feels like a zillion dollars.
05:49So she should be able to do her thing, whatever that looks like now.
05:51Of course she should.
05:52Right.
05:53And hopefully the process is so slow.
05:56I don't know why it's taken this long.
06:00I'm not going to say anything.
06:01I just don't know why it's taken so long.
06:04But somebody needs to light a fire right now.
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