Wendy Williams Disputes Cognitive Impairment Diagnosis: “I Feel Like I Am In Prison,” She Tells Charlamagne Tha God Podcast

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Former talk show host Wendy Williams, whose legal troubles and health battles were documented in a controversial TV documentary and is now confined to an assisted living facility, spoke out strongly reiterated her displeasure with her situation, saying on Charlamagne Tha God‘s Breakfast Club podcast today, insisting “the system is broken.” “I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison,” Williams said. “I’m in this place with people who are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s.

These people, there’s something wrong with these people here on this floor. I am clearly not.” Williams described herself as in her 60s and “sexy and gorgeous.” Listen to the podcast below. “Listen,” Williams said, “this system is broken, this system that I am in.

This system has falsified a lot. For the last three years, I have been caught up in the system.” Williams was joined in the phone conversation with her niece Alex Finnie, who described Williams’ living condition as “what some people would call a luxury prison.

It’s small, she has a bed, a chair, a TV, a bathroom, and she’s looking out one window at buildings across the street.” Throughout the half-hour-plus interview, Williams insisted she is not impaired. “Do I seem that way, goddamnit?