The NYPD and Adult Protective Services are investigating Wendy Williams’ guardianship after performing a wellness check at her adult care facility in Manhattan on Monday that ended with her hospitalization.
Police responded to the assisted living facility around 11:16 a.m. They determined that Williams did not need any help but remained at the scene as EMTs arrived and Williams threw notes out a window to the assembled press.
The city’s Adult Protective Services is also looking into the circumstances of Williams’ stay at the facility, where she is reportedly in a memory unit and barred from leaving, according to TMZ.
She was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital for an independent cognitive examination around 2 p.m., the gossip site reported.
Williams’ guardian claimed last November that the former talk show host was “permanently incapacitated” due to her dementia diagnosis. She was diagnosed with primary aggressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia about a year after being placed under a legal guardianship and put in a care facility in 2022.
In a January interview on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, Williams said she is “not cognitively impaired, no, but I feel like I am in prison.”
Last month, Williams made a legal filing to have the guardianship ended and has vowed to go to a jury trial if necessary. She has previously complained she is not suffering from any health issues and that her diagnosis was made in bad faith.
ABC reported on Sunday that Williams will give a phone interview on “The View” later this week.