Wendy Williams was escorted from her New York assisted living facility to a nearby ambulance by police Monday morning, shortly after the former talk show host dropped a seemingly handwritten note asking for help.
Police sources told The New York Post that they had been called in for a wellness check at around 11:15 a.m., after Williams tossed a note from the window of her fifth-floor room that read “Help! Wendy!!”
A handful of cops then proceeded to help escort Williams into a waiting ambulance, where she was taken to a nearby hospital.
In a statement to the Daily Beast, the NYPD said they “responded to a welfare check” at the address where Williams’ assisted living facility is located. They added that emergency medical services subsequently “responded and transported a 60 year old female to an area hospital for evaluation.”
A representative for Williams did not immediately reply to the Daily Beast’s request for comment.
The TV star has been living in the facility’s memory unit as she continues to try and fight against a restrictive conservatorship she was placed under since 2022.
Her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morissey, has written in court filings that Williams is “permanently incapacitated” from her frontotemporal dementia and aphasia diagnosis.
Williams however, has insisted that she is capable and mentally sound, and disclosed in an interview with the Breakfast Club earlier this year that she feels like she’s “in prison” and is “definitely isolated.”
The talk show host also appeared in a documentary (via phone call) last month, TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy, where she reiterated that she is staying at the memory unit against her own desires.
“Where I am is this place where the people are older. You know what I’m saying? They are in their 90s. In their 80s. They call this the memory unit. I am part of the memory unit, a memory unit! In other words, somebody who doesn’t remember c--p? Are you serious? This is my life. You know what I’m saying?” Williams says in the film.
“The memory unit is suffocating. I mean, like I literally, I eat lunch and dinner in my bedroom. I don’t eat out there with the people that live here, just because it’s so goddamn depressing. There’s a bathroom, there’s a closet and the TV, which was purchased by me through the guardian person,” she continued.
