Wendy Williams can relate to hardcore criminals -- not that she's committed a crime -- but her life mirrors someone confined to a jail cell.
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00:00Imagine you are confined primarily to a single room.
00:05No one can visit you.
00:06No one can call you.
00:07You have no internet access.
00:09And yet, you have committed no crime.
00:12That is the life of Wendy Williams right now.
00:14Wendy Williams is living in such a restrictive guardianship that it's really like living
00:18in prison.
00:19So we have a new documentary that just dropped.
00:21TMZ presents Saving Wendy, now streaming on Tubi.
00:25Because of the guardianship rules, we could only talk to Wendy by phone and film her through
00:29a window.
00:30Are you allowed to go out?
00:31I am not allowed to go out.
00:33I can call you, but you can't call me.
00:35What is the problem with me calling and talking to friends of mine?
00:38How much time have you been able to spend outside in the fresh air?
00:42In the last 30 days, I went out twice for my teeth.
00:48This sounds more like a prison than independence.
00:51Hell yeah.
00:53Even though she has this diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, you think it was alcohol induced
00:58and that's why this progressive disease has seemingly gotten better.
01:01Not seemingly.
01:02Better.
01:03How can it be frontotemporal when she got better?
01:06The question is, can she function?
01:08She is a functioning human being again.
01:11There was once a time where she maybe needed this guardianship, but now she's improved.
01:15She's the old Wendy again.
01:16Some good news.
01:17A judge gave Wendy permission to go to Miami this weekend for her dad's 94th birthday.
01:22And she is going to be around her son Kevin.
01:26She thinks Kevin did some not so good things with her money that caused this guardianship
01:31in the first place.
01:32But she defends him on her new podcast, Two Angry Men, with Harvey and Mark Geragos.
01:37Like my son is my son, you know what I'm saying, and a guardian is a guardian.
01:43And two are not the same at all.
01:46I gotta tell ya, Wendy Williams should be free.
01:49Hang in there, Wendy, and best of luck.
01:51The system has failed.
01:52I want my freedom back.
01:53How about that?