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Wendy Williams says her "life is f***ed up" and feels like she's trapped in a prison ... and it's all due to her being stuck in a conservatorship, despite not being "cognitively impaired."

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00:00Do you remember in movies that sometimes people are in the back seat of a car and it's cold

00:08out and they write help in the back window because they're trying to send signals?

00:13Wendy Williams did that today.

00:15Yeah.

00:16Wow.

00:17That is a heck of a metaphor and an accurate one because we have heard so much over the

00:22last few years about Wendy's, her condition, about her health and that she is the word

00:28they said permanently disabled.

00:30That was the word.

00:31And we thought she was not functional and needed the kind of care that only a conservatorship

00:38or in New York a guardianship could provide.

00:41Which she still is under, but today she's speaking out and I got to say, you're about

00:47to hear her, she sounds pretty lucid, but she is speaking out about where she is, why

00:55she's there and some things that are really upsetting to her.

00:59So this was Wendy speaking to Charlamagne on The Breakfast Club this morning.

01:03I am not cognitively impaired, you know what I'm saying?

01:07But I feel like I am in prison.

01:09You understand what I'm saying?

01:10I'm in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s.

01:15Like I'm exhausted thinking about what if I can't see my dad for his birthday?

01:20You know, at 94, you know, the day after that is not promised, it's not promised.

01:26Like I want to give my dad some sort of fragrance, you know, I want to go to Sephora and pick

01:31and choose.

01:32What?

01:33My life is like f***ed up.

01:42She's prepared for the fact that her phone might be taken away.

01:45What if they take my phone?

01:46I won't be able to talk to anybody.

01:49Well, here's the thing about her phone.

01:51She does not have a cell phone and it's a landline and she can call out, but nobody

01:57can call her.

01:59Why are they doing that to her?

02:00Why would you block her from the outside world unless you don't want people on the outside

02:08to know what she's saying?

02:10That should alarm everybody.

02:12Yeah.

02:13That should alarm everybody.

02:15So in addition to this, guys, her niece, Alex, was also joined in on the call and explained

02:20that just the living conditions that Wendy's experiencing are absolutely terrible.

02:24They say that she's cooped up in this small room in New York City where she only has basic

02:29necessities and one of the biggest concerns is just a small window that doesn't give her

02:34enough sunlight.

02:35And keep in mind, she has breakfast, lunch and dinner in her bed.

02:38She can't go outside.

02:39In fact, she says that she has to use a key to go down the elevator.

02:44And it's, I guess, difficult for her to leave the building on her own accord.

02:48My biggest question is why is she deciding to speak out now?

02:51She claims that this has been going on, this type of mistreatment, for three years.

02:56She granted she's good friends with Charlemagne.

02:57Yeah, well, I think, Jacob, I think that's the answer.

03:01A week ago, she called Charlemagne and once he had that conversation with her, he said

03:06she seemed well enough that she could do a radio show the next day.

03:10And I think then they made some decision that, yeah, she'll do exactly that and she

03:15did.

03:16And it does sound like some members of her family, certainly her niece, said this.

03:21They said they want people to be on social media posting hashtag Free Wendy, much the

03:26way we heard the Free Britney movement.

03:30And they're wondering, I think, it seems like her family is wondering, why isn't there this

03:34cry for Wendy to be free the way there was for Britney?

03:37They don't know yet.

03:38And that's one of the reasons she's coming forward.

03:40And I got to say, personally, the Free Britney movement missed one huge point, which is she

03:49has a real mental illness that was diagnosed and almost died when that, before that conservatorship

03:57was established.

03:58The conservatorship saved her life.

04:01And there were reasons for it here.

04:04I think this is much sketchier.

04:06So to her family's point, if you were on board for Free Britney, you should definitely be

04:12on board for Free Wendy.

04:13Times two.

04:14Yeah.

04:15And look, when you watch that documentary on her and she was out of her head, what I'm

04:20told by sources who are directly connected to this, that a lot of this had to do with

04:25alcohol.

04:26And Wendy had an alcohol problem.

04:28Right now, what I'm told is she is free of alcohol and you can, she's free of alcohol

04:33because they're not giving her any, obviously.

04:36And she's on mood stabilizers.

04:39But that aside, you know, the alcohol may have made her appear the way she was, but

04:45you don't take an alcoholic and put them under a guardianship.

04:49You just don't do that.

04:51Send them to rehab and then hope they get better.

04:54But something is odd here.

04:56Yeah.

04:57And it's odd.

04:58And it's clear they want, the family wants a change here and Wendy very much wants this

05:03change.

05:04Another thing that's really interesting is she talked about Diddy.

05:07And I think this goes to the clarity that she is speaking with.

05:12Charlemagne asked her about Diddy's case.

05:16For those who don't know, and you're going to hear Charlemagne reference this, there's

05:20a long history between Diddy and Wendy.

05:24As the story goes, Diddy got her fired back in 1998 from her job at Hot 97.

05:31So here's what Charlemagne asked her.

05:33You got fired from Hot 97 years ago because of Diddy.

05:36All these years later, to see where Diddy currently is, what do you feel about that

05:39situation?

05:40That's right.

05:41Hey, hey, hey.

05:42When I watch TMZ and I see the stuff that goes on, I'm like, oh my God, Diddy will go

05:46to prison for life, people.

05:47You don't know things that I knew about Diddy back in the day.

05:50And you want to know what?

05:52It's about time, people.

05:54It is about time.

05:55Diddy done.

05:56Wow.

05:57Again.

05:58She sounded like she was doing her show there.

06:02Absolutely.

06:03She sounds like she is on the air.

06:06I mean, she was on the air, but doing her show.

06:10Right.

06:11I get it.

06:12There is something.

06:13This thing has got to be mined because there is something wrong with somebody her age,

06:20with her mental acuity, being locked up in an old folks home without any access to the

06:26outside world.

06:28There's something wrong here.

06:30Now, it is true that if someone has dementia, that they can have periods where they do seem

06:38lucid and clear, but it would be risky for her to go on to do an interview for a half

06:45hour.

06:46And a free-flowing interview.

06:47Right.

06:48Because at any point, if she gets off of that, that's going to be on the air.

06:52Oh, listen to that.

06:53She's going off.

06:54That didn't happen.

06:55And it didn't happen, right.

06:56And it didn't happen a week ago when Charlemagne talked to her then.

06:59And I have talked personally to people in her life who are telling me the same thing.

07:04So this is alarming.

07:07It is simply alarming.

07:08Hi, I'm Hope.

07:10I'm in L.A. and I think it's absolutely absurd that Wendy Williams is in a conservatorship.

07:15It's like, have we learned nothing from the Free Britney situation?

07:19I think these conservatorships are completely immoral and abusive in many cases, like in

07:24Wendy's.

07:25There are cases, though, where it is necessary.

07:28The question is, is it necessary here?

07:30I think some hard questions need to be asked here.

07:33Yes, indeed.

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