(NewsNation) — Former talk show host Wendy Williams was taken to a hospital from her New York assisted living facility Monday, the New York Post and TMZ reported.
TMZ writes Williams was at the hospital for an “independent examination as to whether her cognitive functions are sufficiently intact to end her guardianship.”
New York Police Department officers were called in for a wellness check at the assisted living facility after Williams tossed a handwritten note out of the window asking for help, the Post wrote.
“Help! Wendy!!” the note said, according to the Post.
She later waved her arms at a Post reporter while on the phone before walking out of the facility escorted by police to a waiting ambulance.
The NYPD confirmed to People magazine and The Daily Beast that they “responded to a welfare check” at the address where the facility is located. They said that emergency medical services subsequently “responded and transported a 60-year-old female to an area hospital for evaluation.”
Wendy Williams in ‘guardianship’
Williams has been in a court-ordered guardianship since 2022 under the direction of court-appointed conservator Sabrina Morrissey.
While she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, Williams said on the radio show “The Breakfast Club” in January that she is not “cognitively impaired.”
She called her conservatorship “emotionally abusive.”
Speaking to NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield on her podcast, “Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield,” Williams said she wants to get a new attorney.
Williams said her conservatorship feels “suffocating” and compared it to prison.
Claiming that even her toiletries are locked away and that she needs to ask permission to use them, Williams said she “needs out of this.”
Morrissey has filed lawsuits against multiple people involved in the creation of Lifetime’s controversial documentary, “Where is Wendy Williams?”
She said Williams was “highly vulnerable and clearly incapable of consenting to be filmed” and described her as “an acclaimed entertainer who, tragically, has been afflicted by early-onset dementia and, as a result, has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
NewsNation’s Safia Samee Ali and Liz Jassin contributed to this report.