Wendy Williams has been relatively quiet over the past year or so, but now she’s opened up about her life inside an assisted living facility in New York.
In an interview with The New York Post, the former talk show host spoke about what life has been like ever since she was forced to retire from her eponymous show in 2021 after being diagnosed with aphasia and dementia.
Williams has been living in Coterie, a high-end assisted living facility, since 2023 and has been battling to end her conservatorship. She suggested that she’s “rested” her case about the facility, which sets her back as much as $25,000 a month.
“There’s grass, trees, two floors, no cars around. Can’t even do the elevator to go down. It, too, is locked. I once was a connoisseur of food, and now sometimes I’ll just have meals in my room. And I don’t drink,” she said. “And I’m 61. And mine is a locked floor. And there’s also an in and out hospital. There’s always security with me. Look, I go to church every Sunday. It’s the Christian Cultural Center — 10 a.m. I go with a personal aide. … Understand, I did a daily TV show 14 years. This watching over me also deals with dresses. I was tall. Looking gorgeous. Now all my good stuff’s in storage.”
She said that she’s spent a lot of time keeping notes in her notebook. “Best I can do is Monday and Friday I go to the gym. Let me tell you something else — and that is that I don’t know exactly how, what, why, but I have gone through a lot of shi t,” she added.
The last time Williams gave a public update on her condition was last year in an interview with The Cut. She described the assisted living facility as a “dump,” and said that she asked to be moved to a different floor because she was being kept in a memory care unit with people much older than her.
Last year, her attorney, Joe Tacopina, said that Williams has “alcohol-induced dementia,” which means that her condition is not expected to worsen like typical dementia patients.
