After Williams appeared on his podcast, Lemon gave his “analysis” of the legendary TV persona, along with whether or not or not or not he believes she appeared “incapacitated” or “lucid,” whereas moreover addressing her dementia and aphasia diagnoses.
Don Lemon is sharing his concepts on Wendy Williams’ nicely being following their dialog on his current.
On Thursday, Williams, 60, appeared on Charlamagne that God’s The Breakfast Membership, sooner than she was interviewed by Lemon, her longtime pal, on his podcast, The Don Lemon Current.
All through every appearances, the legendary television persona — who was put beneath a guardianship in 2022 and was recognized with main progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia — slammed her conservatorship, evaluating it to a “jail” whereas arguing that she’s not “incapacitated.”
Following his dialog with Williams, Lemon gave his “analysis” of the converse current host, explaining that whereas she doesn’t appear to be the similar explicit particular person she was “once more throughout the day,” he doesn’t think about she sounded incapacitated or that she has dementia or aphasia. In response to Lemon, Williams appeared “lucid.”
“That’s my analysis. Does Wendy sound similar to the Wendy Williams once more throughout the day as soon as I used to be on her program? No, she doesn’t,” he said. “Does Wendy Williams sound similar to the Wendy Williams that visited me at my house after which might identify me randomly? No. Does Wendy Williams sound lucid to me? Positive. Does Wendy Williams sound like she has dementia? No. Does she sound like she has aphasia or any of that stuff or that she’s incapacitated? No.”
Lemon, 58, confused that whereas he’s “not a medical expert” or a “psychological nicely being skilled,” he was able to “keep it up a dialog” with Williams.
“She is going to be capable to recall particulars from situations that we spent collectively. She did it throughout the Charlamagne interview,” he said, together with that he’s moreover “not as sharp” as he was “once more throughout the day.”
“Nevertheless do I really feel that she sounds incapacitated? No. I suggest, can she be in charge of her private funds and all of that? I really feel there are strategies you would work collectively together with her to ensure that she is being financially good and savvy and … a way to cope with this to ensure that she is taken care of financially for the rest of her life.”
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Lemon said he’s uncertain if Williams “should be in a facility.”
“I have no idea what her factors are,” he admitted. “I don’t discover out about behavior factors, reportedly, allegedly. I don’t discover out about these points. I don’t discover out about that now … on this second. I’m not there. I solely spoke to her this morning, nevertheless she sounds lucid,” he reiterated.
Lemon moreover outlined that he doesn’t understand why Williams “is just not collectively together with her family,” sooner than noting that her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morrisey, “has not spoken.”
“Is the guardian defending her from one factor that we have no idea? I have no idea. Nobody is conscious of,” he added.
In the long run, Lemon said that he believes Williams’ members of the family must be in her life.
“If you happen to’re isolated and you aren’t spherical people that you just love or care about you, who’ve a personal affection or affinity for you, then it messes alongside along with your head,” he said. “And I really feel everyone deserves to be with the people they love, so I really feel that they have to be succesful to work that out or a minimal of to be near by hook or by crook.”
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Williams Slams Guardianship As a ‘Jail,’ Claims She’s Not ‘Incapacitated’
All through her dialog with Lemon, Williams described her life beneath her guardianship as “ridiculous” and like a “jail.”
Williams — who at current lives in a wellness facility in New York Metropolis — criticized her current state of affairs beneath her conservatorship, collectively together with her guardian, Sabrina Morrisey.
“My life is ridiculous,” she knowledgeable Lemon. “I’ve been with this guardian explicit particular person for 3 years. For 3 years of my life … I’m isolated. I actually really feel like I’m in jail. I’m unable to exit. All I can do is check out the window.”
Williams said that she needs to be collectively together with her father for his 94th birthday, nevertheless well-known that “anytime” she goes out, she must be accompanied by Morrisey.
As for the wellness facility she’s residing in, she known as it an “earlier age dwelling.”
“The those who keep listed below are of their 90s and their 80s and their 70s and, I have no idea, presumably they’re 60 like me, I’m unable to tell. People are in wheelchairs,” Williams said. “Some people aren’t in wheelchairs … Hear, clearly they aren’t of my sound ideas and physique.”
When Lemon instantly requested Williams if she’s “incapacitated,” she hit once more, “Hell f–king no!”
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“You don’t think about you’re incapacitated, the guardian has said you’re incapacitated fully and that you simply’ve obtained dementia,” Lemon outlined, to which Williams claimed, “I have no idea the best way rather a lot I can converse with out being punished, and I can’t be succesful to see my dad, and I can’t be succesful to do one thing and I will likely be caught on this jail I’m in for the rest of my life.”
“I’m not in an excellent place,” she added. “My life is screwed up. You acknowledge, this guardian mess is — please, look, I’m isolated. I actually really feel like I’m in jail. I actually really feel like, you understand, they’re attempting to handle me and each factor that I do.”
Williams — who claimed that she solely has $15 — moreover appeared to particular curiosity in going once more to work.
“I don’t want to work, like, 5 days per week. I want to resolve and choose what kind of work I want to do on account of that’s the form of explicit particular person I’m now,” she said.
Following her appearances on The Don Lemon Current and The Breakfast Membership, Williams’ authorized skilled, Roberta Kaplan, launched an announcement to PEOPLE. Kaplan talked about Williams’ evaluation, noting that she “suffers from frontal lobe dementia, a degenerative thoughts sickness that has no treatment.”
“Due to this, a state courtroom docket found her to be legally incapacitated, that signifies that she shouldn’t be capable to making licensed and financial selections on her private,” Kaplan added. “Sadly, as a consequence of her evaluation, Wendy’s state of affairs will solely worsen with time and she or he would require care for the rest of her life.”
“Nevertheless as anyone who has had a member of the household with dementia is conscious of, Wendy has every good days and unhealthy days. It’s really a shame that there’s rather a lot voyeuristic consideration to this correct now, as a result of it solely ends in the similar types of exploitation that we seen throughout the so-called documentary, as alleged in our grievance,” she added, referring to Williams’ lawsuit in direction of A&E, Lifetime, and the producers of the docuseries, The place Is Wendy Williams?
Within the meantime, Williams’ niece, Alex Finnie, who was by her facet all through her interviews with every Lemon and Charlamagne, shared that she doesn’t think about her aunt is cognitively impaired and urged followers to utilize the hashtag #FreeWendy.
