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Wendy Williams will remain locked up indefinitely, but she got good news Friday ... a judge will allow her to fly to Miami for her father's 94th birthday.

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00:00Wendy Williams got some news from the judge some news that we know she will be thrilled about she will be able to celebrate

00:07With her father for his 94th birthday

00:09This had been a big battle for her that the thing she said

00:14Most immediately that she wanted to be outlet out of this assisted living facility where she what she calls a luxury prison

00:21So she could celebrate with her father and the rest of her family

00:25So we are doing a documentary on this and I might explain that's what you're seeing there

00:31My personal opinion is this is one of the biggest outrages. I have seen in

00:36Anything we've done at TMZ. This woman is locked up in this facility in New York an assisted living facility and

00:44the only way that I could interview her was by phone and we had a camera on the street and she went to the

00:52window because she can't come out and

00:54so this was

00:57Part of the documentary before the judge allowed her this trip this two-day trip to Florida

01:04this is how important it was to Wendy your dad is turning 94 in February and

01:12he's up there in age and I

01:15Know you want to go to Miami to see him and celebrate his birthday

01:20Because you don't know how many more there are gonna be

01:22Exactly

01:25That must be important for you

01:30It's it's extremely important

01:34It's extremely important to see my dad for his birthday, you know, and that is a family thing

01:41It's not just a me thing, you know, I would wish that

01:44Along with celebrating my dad's 94th birthday

01:49That we as a family we come together in peace and harmony

01:56That's what I wish for my dad

01:58this is a woman who the judge and

02:03this guardian say has frontotemporal

02:07Dementia and that she cannot care for herself. I

02:11Have been on the phone with Wendy Williams for hours and hours and hours over the last three weeks

02:19This woman is the Wendy Williams from ten years ago

02:23She had a problem with alcohol and she was off the rails a couple of years ago when that happened

02:29She's sober now and she sounds like Wendy Williams and I'm not the only one saying it

02:35Everybody who's interacted with her is saying that and yet she is locked in this guardianship

02:40Where she has virtually no phone access where people can't call her. She has no internet

02:46She has no ability to go outside very limited going what you say twice in 30 days

02:51I mean murderers get more than that and she is stuck in this room and it's amazing

02:58She has her wits about her with with what's been going on here. I gotta tell you

03:02I think it even goes a step further. I agree. I've heard the interview

03:05I think she sounds totally lucid but even beyond that there are plenty of people

03:09She once struggled with alcohol and she may be on the descent to depression to dementia

03:14Lots of people are we don't lock those people up against their will unless they are harmed to the threat of harm to themselves or to

03:22others and I don't think there's anybody who says that she is the idea that just because she is

03:27Showing signs of dementia arguably you say there's not I haven't seen him either

03:30But even if she was we don't lock people up against their will unless we have this overwhelming showing of necessity

03:37I just has anybody claimed that it even exists here. Oh, I listen there are things I can't talk about yet

03:43But I am going to talk about

03:45When this drops a week from Wednesday, it's called saving Wendy on Tubi

03:49But I am telling you that some of the things I'm gonna tell you in a week are shocking

03:55So yeah, Jason, there are some really interesting things that have been said in this guardianship

04:01But I am telling you I have talked to her

04:03Charlemagne's talked to her Rosanna Scott. I was talked to her other people like Don Lemon sector

04:08I've talked to a bunch of people who've talked to her. We all feel the same way

04:12This is the old Wendy Williams yet. She's locked up like a caged animal

04:17So the fight for her is to get an attorney. She has an attorney of her own

04:21She's not a not appointed by the guardians. She's getting that who is going to go in it and get her

04:27Re-evaluated because for whatever I hear you're saying some reason they evaluated her doctor's evaluator and said she has this

04:35Dementia that is going to get worse. It will only get worse. So we need to get her in this facility

04:41And I'm glad that's not the case that

04:44They need another doctor. Well, I'm glad you said that because the dementia they say she has

04:50Can never get better right yet? Wendy has gotten

04:53Bad not only better she's back to who she was so

04:58That alone should be clear that it's not a misdiagnosis. It's a misdiagnosis

05:02There's no way that you could say well, there's one person we're gonna get into that

05:07But there is no way you can say that she's gotten worse. She has gotten materially better

05:12So that diagnosis makes no sense something else does that we'll get into in the documentary

05:18But she's okay and like Jason said

05:21Even if she did have some form of dementia if you have a relative with Alzheimer's the day they get diagnosed

05:27Do you put him in a you don't a guardianship or dementia?

05:30No, you let them have freedom as long as they can and she should be a free woman

05:36I'm sorry for getting in a soapbox here, but it's outrageous to me that this is going on with her

05:42It's an outrage that this is going on with her

05:48I

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