After Williams appeared on his podcast, Lemon weighed in on the legendary TV personality, including whether he thought she looked “incapacitated” or “lucid,” while also talking about her dementia and Aphasia diagnosis.
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On Thursday, Williams, 60, appeared on Charlamagne, God's breakfast membershipbefore she was interviewed by her old friend Lemon on his podcast, Don Lemon Gift.
At every appearance, the legendary TV personality – who was placed under conservatorship in 2022 and was determined to have severe progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia – has lashed out at her conservatorship, Assessing it as “jail” while arguing she was not “incapacitated”.
After his conversation with Williams, Lemon made “a comment” on the speaker's host, explaining that while she no longer seemed like the same person “one day,” he didn't think she sounded bereft. capacity, nor does she think she is the same person “today”. Suffering from dementia or aphasia. Williams appeared “awake” in response to Lemon.
“That's my assessment. Did Wendy sound like Wendy Williams again when I was on her show? No, she didn't,” he said. “Does Wendy Williams sound like the Wendy Williams who visited me at my house and randomly named me? No. Does Wendy Williams sound sane to me? Sure. Does it sound like Wendy Williams has dementia? No. Does she sound like she has aphasia or something, or is she incapacitated?”
Lemon, 58, was bewildered that he was able to “maintain a conversation” with Williams even though he was “not a medical expert” or “a mental health expert.”
“She will be able to recall details of things we spent together. She did that in Charlamagne's interview,” he said, adding that he was also “not as sharp as he was that day.”
“But why do I feel like she sounds so powerless? No, I mean, does she have control over her personal finances and all that? I feel like you can work with her to make sure that she's financially sound and savvy and… … There is a way to address this to ensure that she is taken care of financially for the rest of her life.”
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Lemon said he wasn't sure if Williams “had to be in the facility.”
“I don't know what her point of view is,” he admitted. “It's been reported that I don't know about customary points. I don't understand the issues. I don't know that right now…at this moment. I'm not there. I just spoke to her this morning, but she sounded sober. ,” he reiterated.
Lemon also explained that he didn't understand why Williams “wasn't with her family,” before noting that her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, “wasn't talking.”
“Are the guardians protecting her from a thing that we don't know about? I don't know. No one knows,” he added.
Ultimately, Lemon said he believed Williams' family should be in her life.
“If you're in a state of alienation and you're not one of those people that you just love or care about and have a personal affection or affinity for, then it messes with your head,” he said. “I feel like everyone deserves to be with their loved ones, so I feel like they need to be able to deal with this, or at least come close to it in some way.”
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Williams slams custody as 'prison', claims she's not 'incapacitated'
In her conversation with Lemon, Williams described life in her custody as “ridiculous” and like “prison.”
Williams, who currently lives in a health center in New York City, has criticized her current situation along with her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey.
“My life is ridiculous,” she told Lemon. “I've been with this guardian for three years. For three years of my life… I was isolated. I literally felt like I was in prison. I couldn't quit. All I could do was look. out the window.”
Williams said she hopes to celebrate his 94th birthday with her father and that she needs Morrissey's company “anytime” she goes out.
As for the health facility where she lives, she calls it an “aging home.”
“The people listed here are in their 90s, 80s and 70s, I don't know, maybe they're in their 60s like me, I can't tell. People are in wheelchairs,” Williams said. “There are people who don't have wheelchairs…listen, obviously they don't have my sound mind and body.”
When Lemon immediately asked Williams if she was “incapacitated,” she again said, “Oh God, no!”
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Lemon explained: “You don't imagine that you are incapacitated, and the guardian has stated that you are completely incapacitated and that you have dementia.” Williams claimed, “I don't know how much I can speak. “Without punishment.” I won't be able to see my father, I won't be able to do anything, and I will spend the rest of my life in this prison. ”
“I'm not in a good situation,” she added. “My life is a mess. You know, the chaos of this guardianship is – come on, look, I'm alienated. I really feel like I'm in prison. I really feel like, you know, they're trying to manage me and everything I do.”
Williams, who claimed she only had $15, also seemed particularly curious about returning to work.
“I don't want to work five days a week. I want to decide and choose what I want to do because that's who I am now,” she said.
with her appearance Don Lemon Gift and breakfast membershipWilliams legal professional Roberta Kaplan makes an announcement people. Caplan addressed Williams' analysis, noting that she “suffers from frontal lobe dementia, a degenerative mental illness that has no cure.”
“As a result, state court records show that she is legally incapacitated, meaning that she should not be able to make authorization and monetary choices on her own,” Caplan added. “Sadly, based on her analysis, Wendy's situation It will only get worse over time and he or she will need to take care of her for the rest of her life.”
“However, as anyone who has someone with dementia in their family knows, Wendy has her healthy days and her unhealthy days. In fact, there are a lot of voyeuristic thoughts now, which is actually a shame because it just Resulting in the same type of exploitation we saw in the so-called documentary, as alleged in our complaint,” she added, referring to Williams' lawsuit filed against A&E, Lifetime and the producers of the docuseries, Is that Wendy Williams place?
Meanwhile, Williams' niece Alex Finnie, who has stood by her in interviews with Lemons and Charlamagne, said she does not believe her aunt has a cognitive impairment , and urged fans to use the hashtag #FreeWendy.
