Wendy Williams' request to have dinner with her niece Alex Finnie and lawyer Joe Tacopina reportedly denied by her guardian Sabrina Morrissey

TMZ reported on Wednesday that the former host of the discontinued Wendy Williams Show was recently denied going out for dinner. The outlet cited “sources with direct knowledge” and revealed that the Coterie senior living facility resident had planned a night out with her niece, Alex Finnie, and new personal attorney, Joe Tacopina.

TMZ claimed the denial came from Wendy Williams’ legally assigned guardian, Sabrina Morrissey. The outlet reported that Wendy was blocked from leaving the 5th floor of Coterie. The reason behind the rejection wasn’t disclosed, per TMZ. The tabloid noted that the said decision came a month after it received a letter from Morrissey’s team.

In March, reports by TMZ revealed that Wendy Williams' guardian sent the outlet a letter addressing the media coverage. In the letter, Sabrina Morrissey reportedly claimed that her client was not being kept from her family.

She added that Williams was free to call or see her family members if she desired. Morrissey had also reportedly criticized the media coverage of the guardianship and branded it “untrue, inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading.”

The New York-based lawyer and Wendy Williams’s court-appointed guardian concluded the letter with,

“False statements about Ms. Williams, her condition, and the Guardianship harm Ms. Williams and her interests, and undermine protection created by the Court for her health and welfare.”

Wendy Williams was denied a night out a few days after Joe Tacopina joined her legal team

Last week, Joe Tacopina appeared on TMZ Live and confirmed that the former talk show host retained him as her attorney. The lawyer was asked about his end goal and role as a part of Wendy’s legal team. Tacopina said,

“The end goal is to get her out of that draconian institution, she’s in that she doesn’t belong in, because she’s not incapacitated in any way, shape, or form. She’s in a ward where people don’t know their names, where people don’t know between a red light and a green light. I mean she’s in a place where, you know, people are dangerous to themselves.”

He revealed that Wendy Williams and her family have asked him to represent her as her personal attorney. Tacopina clarified that he wasn’t in the guardianship case yet, as it needs the judge's approval. After explaining the legal process, Tacopina reiterated that his goal was to get Wendy out of the New York senior living facility.

Before joining Williams’s legal team, Tacopina appeared on TMZ’s 2 Angry Men podcast and discussed the tabloid’s documentary on the former media personality. He displayed his interest in representing Wendy and helping her leave the facility where she had been residing for almost a year. Joe Tacopina recently made the headlines after representing A$AP Rocky in his legal battle against A$AP Relli.

The former talk show host had previously branded her court-ordered guardianship as “prison” when she joined a Breakfast Club interview with her niece, Alex Finnie, via call in January. She said,

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“My niece Alex knows a lot as well, you know, but I am not cognitively impaired, you know what I’m saying? But I feel like I’m in prison, you know what I’m saying?”

Months after the interview, Wendy went out with Finnie for dinner. The niece-aunt duo returned from the hospital to Coterie Hudson Yards before they reportedly went out again. TMZ reported that the senior living facility seemingly filed a report for kidnapping against Alex Finnie. When the duo returned, Wendy called the situation “unbelievable,” per TMZ.

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