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00:00Wendy Williams is confined to a luxury prison.
00:04That's the way she sees it, and frankly, that's the way I see it too.
00:07Williams' team says she has been diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.
00:12The bank alleges that Wendy is an incapacitated person who needs a guardianship.
00:18New court documents filed by her legal guardian say she is now permanently incapacitated.
00:23I feel like I am in prison.
00:25This has been detailed from top to bottom regarding this guardianship.
00:29Everybody involved with that.
00:32We have a new documentary that drops on Tubi,
00:36and it is about Wendy Williams locked up in an assisted living facility in New York.
00:42I speak to Wendy.
00:44We couldn't take a camera inside.
00:45Shot up to the fifth floor window.
00:47She was on the telephone at the window.
00:49That's how we had to do this interview.
00:51Are you allowed to go out?
00:53No, I am not allowed to go out.
00:55I can call you, but you can't call me.
00:57In the last 30 days, I went out twice for my teeth.
01:00Are you allowed to take the elevator down?
01:03No.
01:04I asked the guardian person for my tag since years, it seems like.
01:08Can I please have my telephone back?
01:11Can I please be able to call my family?
01:14She is in a guardianship because the guardian and the court seems to think
01:19Wendy is unable to care for herself.
01:21They've diagnosed her with a condition they say makes it impossible for her to live on her own.
01:26I am telling you, Wendy Williams did have problems a couple of years ago.
01:30She is back to the old Wendy Williams,
01:33but she is effectively a prisoner right now for some unknown reason.
01:38Why they are confining her like a criminal.
01:41We get into that in this documentary.
01:44It's scary that even a professional can't even give an assessment
01:49as to why she is actually locked up.
01:51She's not a harm to herself.
01:53She's not violent.
01:54It's amazing to me that she's managed to still be able to laugh and dream and hope
01:59and see a pathway forward for herself because a lot of people may not be able to.
02:05What is she? Convicted of some kind of crime? Locked up in this room?
02:09This does not make sense.
02:11Frontotemporal dementia has such overlap with other conditions,
02:15including alcohol-related brain damage.
02:17So it's possible for people to be misdiagnosed.
02:21It's about my money, you know what I'm saying?
02:23My son, you know, he overstepped his boundaries
02:26and he was inappropriately using my money without telling me crap about it.
02:33My opinion, she needs to be a free woman again,
02:36but you be the judge.
02:38It is a to-be documentary saving Wendy and it is free.