Wendy Williams
I am Residing Like a Convicted Legal
… Because of a Draconian Guardianship
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Wendy Williams can relate to hardcore criminals — not that she’s dedicated a criminal offense — however her life mirrors somebody confined to a jail cell.
TMZ has dropped a documentary on Tubi, “TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy” … which explores her guardianship which has now gone on for years. As she says, her life is remoted. She’s in a New York Metropolis assisted dwelling facility, the place she is confined to a room on the fifth flooring.
Wendy can not go away the ground with out permission from the workers. She says she’s been outdoors within the contemporary air twice within the final 30 days … each instances for dentist appointments.
Nearly nobody is allowed to go to her. Nobody can name her. She will be able to make calls out, however that is it. She has no entry to the web. She eats in her room as a result of she says it is extraordinarily miserable to be round 90-year-olds with critical well being issues.
Harvey and others have spent hours on the cellphone with Wendy, and to an individual everybody says she’s again to the outdated Wendy. She’s lucid, following conversations, and is participating … she’s herself once more.
The guardian says Wendy is completely disabled because of Frontotemporal Dementia … drawback is, the situation by no means will get higher. Wendy was in dangerous form a couple of years in the past when she was consuming closely, however she’s sober now and her psychological state has radically improved … many say again to regular, but she’s nonetheless underneath an extremely restrictive guardianship.
The one method we might shoot the documentary was to have a digicam positioned on the sidewalk the place we shot her on the window on the fifth flooring as she spoke with us by cellphone.
The documentary — “TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy” — is offered free on Tubi.
