Wendy Williams did want to be placed in a guardianship but didn't know she would be banned from phone or internet use, says her healthcare advocate

Wendy Williams is speaking up on the restrictive guardianship nightmare she was subjected to.

The former TV host, 60, who has been living with her court-appointed legal guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, hasn't been in charge of her finances and health since May 2022. According to People Magazine, she is currently residing in a luxury high-rise assisted-living facility in New York to tackle her cognitive issues and dementia.

However, the TV personality's healthcare advocate, Ginalisa Monterroso, told the magazine that while Williams initially wanted to be placed under guardianship, she didn't know that all her rights would be stripped away and that she would be banned from using her phone or the internet.

"You have no rights," Monterroso told the outlet. "Somebody in prison has more rights than a person put under a guardianship."

Everything we know about Wendy Williams' current lifestyle as her lawyer compares her situation to a prison

People Magazine has reported that Sabrina Morrissey is the only individual to have complete access to Wendy Williams right now, and her family told the outlet just last year that while she can call them, they can't contact her themselves.

Just last month, she was wheeled away in an ambulance from her New York assisted living facility after cops conducted a wellness check on her following a handwritten note she tossed out the window— begging for help.

“Help! Wendy!!” the note said.

As reported by the New York Post, the call was made at about 11:15 am, shortly after Wendy Williams tossed the note out from her room, which sits on the fifth floor. The star, who has been fighting to end her court-ordered guardianship, has been staying at the memory ward.

She was spotted at the time waving at a reporter from the Post while speaking on the phone. Not long after, she was flanked by several cops as she made her way to an already waiting ambulance. She was then transported to a local hospital “for evaluation,” a spokesperson for the New York Police Department told People Magazine at the time.

However, Monterroso claims that the debacle was "more of a joke" but that she and her client planned the 911 call a day prior to catch the media's attention and to score another evaluation for the latter. Monterroso is claiming that Williams is "excited" for a jury to decide if her guardianship should be terminated soon.

"I wanted to make awareness to the public that this is very serious and it is a crime to keep somebody isolated," Monterroso continues. "And so I just said [to Wendy] 'We're going to call the police. “It was just more of a strategic move to just kind of get more evidence because this case has been stuck,” she explains.

She also told the outlet that Wendy Williams “passed” the mental capacity exams done at the hospital, noting:

“She was alert and oriented, and we were satisfied with that.”

Earlier this year, Wendy Williams sat down for a rare interview on The Breakfast Club, where she spoke with host Charlamagne Tha God about her situation:

"I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison," Williams said. "I’m in this place with people who are in their nineties and their eighties and their seventies... These people, there's something wrong with these people here on this floor. I am clearly not."

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Wendy Williams' lawyer, Monterosso, told People Magazine that the media personality is "confident that she's going to continue to fight."

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