Wendy Williams Lives Like a Prisoner Under Highly Restrictive Guardianship | TMZ TV - video Dailymotion

Wendy Williams can relate to hardcore criminals -- not that she's committed a crime -- but her life mirrors someone confined to a jail cell.

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00:00Imagine you are confined primarily to a single room.

00:05No one can visit you.

00:06No one can call you.

00:07You have no internet access.

00:09And yet, you have committed no crime.

00:12That is the life of Wendy Williams right now.

00:14Wendy Williams is living in such a restrictive guardianship that it's really like living

00:18in prison.

00:19So we have a new documentary that just dropped.

00:21TMZ presents Saving Wendy, now streaming on Tubi.

00:25Because of the guardianship rules, we could only talk to Wendy by phone and film her through

00:29a window.

00:30Are you allowed to go out?

00:31I am not allowed to go out.

00:33I can call you, but you can't call me.

00:35What is the problem with me calling and talking to friends of mine?

00:38How much time have you been able to spend outside in the fresh air?

00:42In the last 30 days, I went out twice for my teeth.

00:48This sounds more like a prison than independence.

00:51Hell yeah.

00:53Even though she has this diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, you think it was alcohol induced

00:58and that's why this progressive disease has seemingly gotten better.

01:01Not seemingly.

01:02Better.

01:03How can it be frontotemporal when she got better?

01:06The question is, can she function?

01:08She is a functioning human being again.

01:11There was once a time where she maybe needed this guardianship, but now she's improved.

01:15She's the old Wendy again.

01:16Some good news.

01:17A judge gave Wendy permission to go to Miami this weekend for her dad's 94th birthday.

01:22And she is going to be around her son Kevin.

01:26She thinks Kevin did some not so good things with her money that caused this guardianship

01:31in the first place.

01:32But she defends him on her new podcast, Two Angry Men, with Harvey and Mark Geragos.

01:37Like my son is my son, you know what I'm saying, and a guardian is a guardian.

01:43And two are not the same at all.

01:46I gotta tell ya, Wendy Williams should be free.

01:49Hang in there, Wendy, and best of luck.

01:51The system has failed.

01:52I want my freedom back.

01:53How about that?