TV host Wendy Williams’ bombshell claim: ‘Trapped’

Former US TV queen Wendy Williams has made a staggering accusation, years after disappearing from the public eye.

Wendy Williams called in to US radio show The Breakfast Club today in a plea for freedom.

The 60-year-old and her niece Alex Finnie told listeners that she is “trapped” in a facility in New York with elderly patients without access to her phone or laptop while under a guardianship.

Williams called her current situation “emotional abuse” in the bombshell interview, reports Page Six.

“I am not cognitively impaired, but I feel like I am in prison,” she said. “I am definitely isolated. To talk to these people who live here, that is not my cup of tea.

“I keep the door closed,” the former Wendy Williams Show host continued of her day-to-day activities. “I watch TV. I listen to the radio. I watch the window. I sit here, and my life goes by.”

The former TV host claims she is “trapped”. Picture: thwwendyexperience/Instagram

Williams stepped back from the public eye in 2021.

Williams claimed her cats have been taken and are “gone” despite her “wanting them with” her.

The former shock jock shared her hopes to celebrate her dad’s 94th birthday in Miami next month — and to ultimately live there with her family.

She ended the interview with her infamous catchphrase, “How you doin’?”

“I am not cognitively impaired,” Williams insisted. Picture: Lifetime

She has been under court-ordered guardianship since 2022. Picture: Lifetime

Host Charlamagne Tha God urged his listeners to spread the word on social media, calling the Q&A the “fuse to light” and “explode” the situation.

Williams’ rep has yet to respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

The Daytime Emmy nominee has been out of the spotlight for years, last hosting her Fox talk show in 2021 before it wrapped the following year without her.

Williams, who has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia, according to her team, was placed under court-ordered guardianship in 2022.

Her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, called Williams “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated” as recently as October 2024.

Williams made a rare public appearance last month to attend her son Kevin Hunter Jr.’s graduation in Florida.

She was later caught on camera getting into a heated confrontation with her caretakers while leaving a celebratory dinner for the 24-year-old.

Hunter Jr. subsequently wrote via Instagram in December 2024 that his mum is “sober” and wants to “come home” since “isolation is killing her faster than anything else.”

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.

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