Wendy Williams Signs Legal Document to End Guardianship | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

TMZ

Just hours after TMZ's documentary on Wendy Williams dropped on Tubi, the wheels started turning to end her guardianship.

Transcript

00:00Hours after our Wendy Williams documentary saving Wendy on to be dropped the wheels

00:07started to turn and

00:09Wendy took the first big step to end this guardianship by signing a very important document

00:16Right a document that officially puts her request to the judge. She signed an affidavit

00:21Requesting that this is that the guardianship be dissolved. This is her

00:28Making it official and sending it to the judge. It's the first step

00:32Has not been sent yet. Just been signed

00:34All right, it's been signed and in this document

00:37She says a couple of important things one is that she has regained her capacity

00:42That's an acknowledgement that a couple of years ago

00:45She did not have the capacity to take care of herself and this guardianship

00:49Frankly was appropriate a couple of years ago for two reasons the financial side

00:54And the personal side and on both counts she needed a guardianship the question has it changed

01:00I believe it has fundamentally changed

01:04This is Wendy Williams talking in the documentary. And I think if you watch the whole thing

01:10I think you're gonna reach the same conclusion. I did. I am NOT allowed to go out

01:15I can call you but you can't call me over the last say

01:2030 days

01:21How much time have you been able to spend outside in the fresh air

01:26In the last 30 days I went out

01:29Twice even people who are in prison for murder

01:34Get an hour a day outside and you've only been outside in fresh air twice in the last 30 days

01:43Yes, here's what the judge said in this case the guardian that's miss Morrissey is

01:49To permit Wendy as much independence as is practical

01:55This sounds more like a prison than independence

02:00Hell yeah

02:03Hell yeah, listen, this system has failed this system has failed from top to bottom regarding this guardian and

02:11everybody involved with

02:14The system has failed I want my freedom back

02:17So here's a big deal here that Wendy has been diagnosed with a condition called frontotemporal dementia

02:25The one thing that is clear about that condition. It never gets better. It is a

02:32Progressive

02:34condition

02:35Where you just deteriorate over time

02:38Wendy has gotten better. I think that part is undeniable

02:41So and that is I agree with you completely clear from a lot of different things that came up in your conversation with her

02:50and I think it's got to go a

02:54Long way with a judge that she is acknowledging that there was a problem, right? This isn't just her saying I

03:01Never should have been in here. This is ridiculous. I don't belong in here

03:05She's acknowledging that there was a problem and she's because she's saying I have regained

03:12I've regained that that ability that I've regained. Yeah, but here's the thing. Yeah, I think you're right on the surface

03:20Now overlay that with the fact that the judge and the Guardian have essentially

03:26sequestered her from the world

03:28Why is that? Why would they not allow her to receive calls? Why would they not allow?

03:34But if the Guardian is presenting and you tell me but if the Guardian is presenting to the judge

03:39a medical evaluation that says a diagnosis that she has frontotemporal dementia, right and

03:46Even there even there

03:48We we've talked about this that if she's not if she still has it together enough

03:53You don't need to put her in a facility, right?

03:56But even let's say that the judge sees that and says, all right, this is only gonna get worse

04:01So, let's put her in this facility

04:05That's one thing but now she is presenting to you

04:09Evidence and this documentary is evidence that she's better

04:14So, how do you ignore that as the judge and especially now that everyone has seen Wendy?

04:22And and heard Wendy like how can you just blatantly ignore what is clear to everyone's eyes?

04:28I'd love to say you're right, but I don't know. I don't know

04:32This this judge that so far has not been sympathetic to that

04:36Yeah, but it all comes down to this for me like there was a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. She now seems better

04:43So, how do we weigh that but ultimately and you've made this point many times Harvey. So what right?

04:49There's got to be a fight

04:50lots of people have dementia the vast vast vast majority of whom live their lives either on on their own or with

04:58Not locked down. They are able able to go as they please unless they are a physical danger to themselves or to others

05:05There's never been an allegation to my knowledge that Wendy Williams is a physical danger to herself or others

05:11This is not financial her financial that she has a guardianship. She's not

05:15Over our finances. She's not bucking up against that what she well, no, no, she's she just went spree

05:20She can get a financial advisor when she gets out if she gets out

05:25She can get that so she doesn't need that either as a guardianship, right?

05:29But ultimately what she wants right now is the ability to walk down the street and even assuming she has dementia

05:34Why can't she walk down the street? Well, that's the question Jason. Um, look she's gonna have another medical evaluation

05:42It is interesting. The guardians rep has said we don't expect it's gonna be any different

05:47In fact, we think it's getting worse

05:49And that's the weird part is that I've talked to her for hours on end for the last month or so as have others and

05:56I'm hearing the exact opposite of it's getting worse, but the Guardian saying it's getting worse

06:01That's why I'm saying there's this huge disconnect and I think that is interesting that she has spoken to so many people

06:06Is it the Guardian or the judge who does not want her doing interviews anymore?

06:11The judge the judges said no interviews were told and what's the reason for that?

06:17Good question. This doesn't need to be another Britney Spears situation

06:21This is too high-profile

06:22the media can get involved in this and they can help shed light on this like you guys are doing right now and I just

06:28Hope that she gets in front of the judge again and get

06:31Rediagnosed or at least a doctor to confirm the diagnosis. Yeah, I mean they're gonna do that

06:36They will have a reevaluation and like Jason said, I mean even if she has this

06:41Which seems weird to me if she's gotten so much better

06:45If she's able to care for herself, you know people who are diagnosed with Alzheimer's don't immediately go into a guardianship

06:51They're able to live freely until they can't Wendy it seems can

Wendy Williams Signs Legal Document to End Guardianship | TMZ Live

Category

Transcript

Recommended