Are the cries of Wendy Williams freed from her custody?
On March 10, the NYPD carried out a welfare check at Williams on Coterie Hudson Yards, the assisted living facility where she lives, a police spokesperson confirmed Yahoo Entertainment. The former TV -guestheer, 60, was transported by ambulance “to an area hospital for evaluation.” In the run -up to the welfare check, Williams reportedly threw a handwritten note out the window with the text: “Help! Wendy !! “
Williams called it up Good Day New York On March 11 to share an update of the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She said she had undergone a cognitive evaluation and ‘passed’ with flag and pennant. She said that she wanted to be “independently tested” outside of what her guardian, by the court, ordered lawyer Sabrina Morrissey.
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Also on the call, Ginalisa Monterroso, who called Williams a ‘friend’, but who is a caregiver by profession, although she is not officially associated with the care of Williams. Monterroso said that she ensures that the independent test results are brought to court that supervises the custody of Williams. Monterroso said she had contacted the NYPD for the wellness check and submitted a report to the adult protection services.
‘Get out [this] Guardianship … is my number 1 most important thing, “said Williams.
Morrissey, who has been in charge of the finances and well -being of Williams since 2022, publicly announced in February 2024 that Williams had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. For months, William’s interviews gave to deny that she was cognitively disabled and argued to be released from custody, who has called her in what she has mentioned in what she has called a ‘luxury prison’. It is a high-end assisted living facility, and she is in memory care, where she claims that the lifts are locked, visitors limited, she cannot get phone calls and she receives medication that she cannot identify.
Williams told Scotto that she had stayed in the hospital on Tuesday while waiting for a meeting with her personal lawyer and a few other people, whose she said she would not reveal.
A source of Williams told the Sun -Tabloid that Morrissey tried to return to the supported residential facility on Monday evening. Williams and her lawyer, however, refused and said it was not a safe environment for Williams. As a result, Morrissey is expected to submit an emergency request to have Williams moved to less restrictive alternative homes.
The same outlet reported that the adult protective services report was submitted because Morrissey approved the recent trip from Williams to Miami for her father’s 94th birthday, but Williams had no money while she was there. A credit card Morrissey reportedly indicated that Williams was rejected and Williams, who earned an estimated $ 15 million a year in 2021, had to borrow money from family members.
Morrissey did not respond to Yahoo’s request for comments.
Williams told Scotto that if she were liberated from custody, she would ‘of course’ agree to having a financial adviser. (It was her ex-Financial adviser at Wells Fargo who initiated custody for the first time by considering Williams as a “incapacitated person” in 2022). Williams, who is in recovery for drug and alcohol addiction, said that she would not hire a sober companion because she is not drinking.
When Scotto asked if it was true that Williams had hired a $ AP Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina to hire her case, the former TV -guestheer said she is not legally allowed ‘for a [new] lawyer on board. ‘
Williams added that her money under custody actually flies out the window.
What is needed to #freewendy?
Williams now publicly argued for her business for months reminiscent of the #FreeBritney movement. In 2021, the Britney Spears conservatory ended (the term for the legal regulation in Spears’s Home State of California) after almost 13 years. Her lawyer said that the father of Spears, who acted as curator, and lawyers earned $ 36 million at the conservatory.
Harry Nelson’s lawyer, a partner at Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman, told Yahoo that the “story of a guardian overboard” is not a new scenario.
“I take these allegations extremely seriously, since both Wendy and her family members express their concern about potentially offensive decision -making by the guardian appointed by the court with regard to her freedom of movement and contact,” said Nelson. “We have seen this story of a guardian go overboard too often. The fact that Wendy is so articulated in expressing that she believes that the Guardian is wrong to demand the highest possible level of control over the choices that the Guardian have made. “
Regarding the reason why the supplications of Williams – and by her family members, who said they were pronounced by the curator, are unable to contact her directly and who started a GoFundme with #freewendy – have not been tackled by the court, many processes are involved.
“My experience is that under guardianship people often do not understand how they can most effectively communicate with the court – who has a busy docket and limited attention for specific guardiangoing – and possibly has limited access to advice to help them communicate their perspectives to court,” Nelson said.
Furthermore: “Guardians sometimes have a stimulus to depict the limitation of their subjects in more serious terms to prevent ambiguity and to guarantee their power to manage decisions,” said Nelson, who is not involved in Williams’ matter.
Morrissey, who complains the filmmakers behind Lifetime Where is Wendy Williams? Docus series on behalf of Williams, who claimed that they were trying to exploit the TV star, described the star as “permanently disabled and incapacitated for work” in court cases. In January Williams clearly said in an interview with The Breakfast Club Radio show: I am “not cognitively disabled.”
“In some cases it is a matter of delaying time from up-to-date psychological evaluations,” Nelson said about delays in guardianship cases. “In others it is just a matter of the slowness that retains because the system is invested in ‘protecting’ the person against himself.”
With regard to the next steps for Williams when trying to end custody, Nelson said that it was “valuable” for her to undergo the independent cognitive evaluation in the hospital “to get a new perspective of a respected expert” who can be presented to the judge.
Furthermore, a petition to terminate guardianship must be submitted, which would cause a court to “hear proof of competence and capacity to manage healthcare and financial decisions.”
Williams should probably also present a plan that will outline its support system in the future when it is released – which she is clearly considering, as she made clear in her interview with Good day New York.
