Wendy Williams has possession of all of her mental faculties as reported by a local New York hospital on Monday, March 10.
Williams passed her psychiatric exam at a local New York hospital, answering 10 out of 10 questions correctly, according to TMZ.
However, just as things were looking up, Williams was taken from her assisted living home by ambulance after she dropped a note to paparazzi pleading for help. Page Six reported Williams was in her fifth-story room on Monday when she tossed a handwritten note out of the window. The message read: “Help! Wendy!!”
Police arrived at around 11:15 a.m. and the former talk show host, 60, was escorted to the ambulance, walking on her own. Photos showed her wearing a T-shirt, black leggings and a long sweater as she left the facility, looking somber. According to witnesses at the scene, multiple police vehicles were present during the wellness check.
What’s notable is that the psychiatrist’s examination results on Williams are radically different from the one forwarded by the court-mandated guardian.
The guardian stated that Williams was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. Johns Hopkins Hospital describes FTD as a group of disorders that occur when nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain are lost. The degenerative and irreversible condition “causes the lobes to shrink and can negatively impact behavior, personality, language, and movement.”
Williams’ cry for help
This diagnosis of Williams by the psychiatrist at the Lenox Hill Hospital comes as two different New York agencies have launched investigations into Williams’ cry for help to get out of her guardianship.
The New York Police Department reportedly visited the living facility to probe and assess her living conditions. Also, Adult Protective Services has commenced an investigation, though the details of what they will be looking at was not made available to the media.
These activities were kicked off by Williams, who conducted an interview by phone with “The Breakfast Club” in late January 2025. The phone call was important in that the popular radio show is syndicated nationally, which means Williams’ plea was broadcasted nationally and was impossible for NYC to ignore.
Williams was scheduled to do a phone interview with ‘The View’ on Friday, March 14, but it’s unclear whether that will proceed as planned.
Williams claims her legal guardianship is keeping her in claustrophobic, prison-like constraints inside an adult living facility in New York. She said she had few privileges, rarely is allowed outside to walk the grounds of the campus, and has every movement monitored.
