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After speaking to Wendy Williams for more than 6 hours this weekend, she's showing no signs of mental decline.

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00:00I spent six hours on the telephone this weekend talking to Wendy Williams.

00:06I had multiple conversations with her on Saturday, on Sunday.

00:11I spoke with her early, early in the morning and late in the afternoon both days.

00:16Also spoke with her Friday.

00:18So I have talked to her for hours.

00:21I am here to tell you right now, there was not a minute,

00:27there was not a second where Wendy Williams seemed like she was mentally incapacitated

00:36in any way, much less in a way where she ended up in a guardianship and virtually

00:44all of her freedoms taken away.

00:48It was revealing.

00:50It was shocking.

00:52And I am telling you, there are hard questions.

00:56Numerous people need to answer.

00:58Why is Wendy Williams in a guardianship for three years?

01:03And let me just explain the conditions here.

01:06Wendy Williams is a prisoner, not just in an assisted living facility, in her room.

01:14She is on a floor where it requires an elevator to go down.

01:20She doesn't have access to that elevator.

01:22Somebody has to let her down.

01:25She doesn't go out.

01:27She can't receive phone calls from people.

01:30She has no laptop.

01:33She is a prisoner in this assisted living facility.

01:37And when you listen to her, I'm telling you, there is nothing.

01:43I know this guardian says that she is permanently incapacitated.

01:49I didn't hear any incapacitation.

01:53Right, and you could say somebody had a good moment, perhaps, but you said, Harvey, early

01:56morning, late, different days.

01:58Yes.

01:59Doesn't make any sense.

02:00And by the way, Charlemagne has spoken to her over the last couple of weeks here and

02:04there.

02:05Rosanna Scotto has spoken with her.

02:07She's the anchor in New York.

02:09Nothing.

02:10Nobody said, nobody has said, oh my God, yeah, she kind of like lapsed and didn't know.

02:16Nobody.

02:17No, I listened to the Charlemagne conversation.

02:18She seemed incredibly lucid.

02:21Perfectly fine.

02:22Well, this took, I'm talking hours and hours of conversation.

02:27Wow.

02:28And she is with it.

02:30She is with it.

02:32And to have a guardianship where somebody's, and this is an odd guardianship because it

02:38started just because somebody was taking advantage of her financially.

02:42Right.

02:42And this is when she was going through some real substance abuse issues.

02:46She's clean now.

02:47Right.

02:47But when she was going through those issues, there were issues where somebody was taking

02:52advantage of her financially.

02:54Somehow that morphed into a guardianship over her entire life and not just a guardianship,

03:01because remember with Britney Spears, with Britney Spears, she was still able to communicate

03:09with the outside world.

03:10She was on Instagram going out with her then husband.

03:14This seems far more strict.

03:17It's worse than when you look at what somebody in prison who commits a violent crime, they

03:24at least get out an hour a day.

03:26Right.

03:27She doesn't get any of that.

03:28So how could this possibly have happened then, Harvey?

03:31How do you take away a free adult's will to operate their own life?

03:36I mean, how?

03:37It started with the documentary, this lifetime documentary where she was just off the rails.

03:44Right.

03:44And there were substance abuse issues.

03:46And there is a theory that the guardians let her do this and were never even around when

03:52it was being filmed to protect her.

03:54Right.

03:54So maybe, just maybe, and I'm giving a theory, this is a complete overreaction to the guardians

04:04not doing what they should have when that was done.

04:07If I were in her situation, being locked in a room for three years, essentially, I don't

04:15know that I would be a functioning human being.

04:20Right.

04:20She seems like she's doing great, all things considered.

04:23I'm shocked.

04:24I'm shocked at how well she's doing.

04:26Right.

04:27Given what she is being treated like a prisoner.

04:33It sounds like she's in solitary confinement.

04:35And you've seen what that does to people.

04:37She is.

04:38And just to hear her mental state, to hear that she can be even happy, still knowing

04:45the circumstances and being angry about it, is stunning to me.

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