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Former talk show host Wendy Williams was transported to Mount Sinai West hospital on Monday, March 10, following a wellness check at her assisted living facility in Midtown Manhattan. The New York Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE that they responded to the facility after receiving a 911 call about a woman in distress.
According to The New York Post, the 60-year-old allegedly dropped a note from her window that morning reading: "Help! Wendy!!" This prompted
authorities to conduct the welfare check that led to her being escorted from the building and transported by ambulance.
"Two NYPD officers and a sergeant responded to the assisted living facility in response to a 911 call," a source briefed on the situation told ABC News. When they arrived, Williams was reportedly calm and able to enter the ambulance without restraint. Officials are treating this as "a standard call for service" with no ongoing police investigation.
Williams has been under a court-appointed guardianship since May 2022, which oversees both her finances and health decisions. Her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, claimed in court documents that Williams is "cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated."
This incident follows Williams' recent public statements about her living conditions. "I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison," Williams said during a January appearance on The Breakfast Club. "I've been here for six or seven months and I haven't seen anybody."
In February, Williams described her situation on NewsNation's Banfield: "I don't have the freedom to do virtually anything. I'm on the fifth floor. They call it 'the memory unit,' so it's for people who don't remember anything... this is very suffocating."
A press release from Williams' medical team revealed that she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023. Primary progressive aphasia affects language capabilities, while dementia impairs memory, thinking, and decision-making abilities.
Hours after Williams' January radio appearance, court documents show that Morrissey requested a "new medical evaluation" for the former host. Williams has consistently expressed her desire to end the guardianship, claiming that elevators in the facility are locked, visitors are restricted, and she remains unaware of what medications she's being administered.
