Wendy Williams in a facility to treat cognitive issues, family says — but they don’t know where

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according to People.Williams, 59, the subject of the upcoming Lifetime docuseries “Where Is Wendy Williams?,” does speak to her sister and niece — but only if she calls them, since they don’t know where she’s being treated.“I spoke with her yesterday and I speak with her very regularly when she reaches out to me,” her sister, Wanda Finnie, said. “She is, from what I understand, in a wellness, healing type of environment.”“Where Is Wendy Williams?,” which will run in four parts on Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m., shows Williams in the throes of alcohol addiction and struggling with her mental health, memory and ability to effectively communicate, according to People.

She is under the care of a court-appointed legal guardian who oversees her finances and health decisions.“We cannot reach out to her, but she can reach out to us,” Finnie told People. “And she is in a healing place emotionally. “She’s not the person you see in this film,” she said of the Lifetime documentary.Williams’ niece Alex Finnie — an executive producer on “Where Is Wendy Williams?” — told People that she’s proud of Williams “for taking control of her narrative, because my aunt has always been such a public person and has been an open book, and we’ve all seen the images over the last few months and really few years of what has been like a spiral … So for her to actually put her voice in here and take ownership of what’s happened, where she’s at present day … I think it’s powerful.”“I don’t know what is working, but I do know that when she did reach out to me, it was a person who is remarkably different than what we see in that documentary,” Wanda said.Added Alex: “She sounds really great.