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00:00Wendy Williams is confined to a luxury prison.

00:04That's the way she sees it, and frankly, that's the way I see it too.

00:07Williams' team says she has been diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

00:12The bank alleges that Wendy is an incapacitated person who needs a guardianship.

00:18New court documents filed by her legal guardian say she is now permanently incapacitated.

00:23I feel like I am in prison.

00:25This has been detailed from top to bottom regarding this guardianship.

00:29Everybody involved with that.

00:32We have a new documentary that drops on Tubi,

00:36and it is about Wendy Williams locked up in an assisted living facility in New York.

00:42I speak to Wendy.

00:44We couldn't take a camera inside.

00:45Shot up to the fifth floor window.

00:47She was on the telephone at the window.

00:49That's how we had to do this interview.

00:51Are you allowed to go out?

00:53No, I am not allowed to go out.

00:55I can call you, but you can't call me.

00:57In the last 30 days, I went out twice for my teeth.

01:00Are you allowed to take the elevator down?

01:03No.

01:04I asked the guardian person for my tag since years, it seems like.

01:08Can I please have my telephone back?

01:11Can I please be able to call my family?

01:14She is in a guardianship because the guardian and the court seems to think

01:19Wendy is unable to care for herself.

01:21They've diagnosed her with a condition they say makes it impossible for her to live on her own.

01:26I am telling you, Wendy Williams did have problems a couple of years ago.

01:30She is back to the old Wendy Williams,

01:33but she is effectively a prisoner right now for some unknown reason.

01:38Why they are confining her like a criminal.

01:41We get into that in this documentary.

01:44It's scary that even a professional can't even give an assessment

01:49as to why she is actually locked up.

01:51She's not a harm to herself.

01:53She's not violent.

01:54It's amazing to me that she's managed to still be able to laugh and dream and hope

01:59and see a pathway forward for herself because a lot of people may not be able to.

02:05What is she? Convicted of some kind of crime? Locked up in this room?

02:09This does not make sense.

02:11Frontotemporal dementia has such overlap with other conditions,

02:15including alcohol-related brain damage.

02:17So it's possible for people to be misdiagnosed.

02:21It's about my money, you know what I'm saying?

02:23My son, you know, he overstepped his boundaries

02:26and he was inappropriately using my money without telling me crap about it.

02:33My opinion, she needs to be a free woman again,

02:36but you be the judge.

02:38It is a to-be documentary saving Wendy and it is free.

TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy Williams | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer

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