Wendy Williams Claims She's Being Kept from Seeing Dad on His 94th Birthday as Source Says Guardianship Court Protects Her Safety

Wendy Williams is heartbroken as the distance between her and her family grows.

On Thursday, Jan. 16, the former television show host opened up about her ongoing conservatorship in an emotional interview with Charlamagne tha God on The Breakfast Club and revealed that she's not sure she'll be able to see her family to celebrate her father's upcoming 94th birthday.

"My dad is going to be 94 next month. I don’t know if I’m able to fly to Miami to say happy birthday to my dad," Williams, 60, admitted, and she claimed that the "person who is holding me hostage" is to blame for her possibly missing the milestone birthday.

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"Listen, I don’t know if she’s going to let me see my dad for his birthday. He’s going to be 94," she said, referring to her court-appointed guardian Sabrina Morrissey, who has been overseeing Williams' finances and health since 2022, while her family has restricted contact with her.

A source with knowledge of the matter explained that the guardianship court ultimately decides whether it is safe for Williams to travel to Florida or other locations. She is currently in a facility with 24/7 medical care.

Williams' niece, Alex Finnie, who joined her for the interview, said of her aunt, "She wants to be here for his birthday and the fact that they’re playing games, I’m sorry, that is just absolutely sickening."

"I’m exhausted thinking about what if I can't see my dad for his birthday. At 94, the day after that is not promised. It's not promised," Williams continued. Her mother, Shirley Williams, died in 2020 when she was 85.

She was recently able to make a rare outing to visit her family — and see her father — to attend her son Kevin Hunter Jr's graduation from Florida International University. She said that the 24-year-old she shares with her ex-husband Kevin Hunter is "doing such a great job" right now as she reflected on her December visit.

"He graduated and I was in Miami, and that was about a month ago," she said. "Talk about the great time we had — seeing my dad — we all went out and had a party."

Williams also detailed the daily reality living in a wellness facility in New York City. "I feel like I’m in prison," she said. "I am definitely isolated ... I sit here as my life goes by."

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Williams' family has told PEOPLE that they are kept out of the loop regarding the former talk show host's life, including her location and her health.

Her sister, Wanda Finnie, told PEOPLE in February 2024 that communication was "cut off" not long after Williams' court-ordered guardianship began in April 2022. Prior to that, she had been spending time with her family in Florida, and Wanda said there were "a number of people involved" in her care and "she was getting healthier."

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When she returned to New York City, by court order, her health deteriorated, to the point that she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, but her former attorney La Shawn Thomas was skeptical about how Williams' condition had changed so much, given that she was doing well when she was in Florida with her family.

“You can clearly see the difference between Wendy's well-being during her time here in Florida with her son caring for her and her lack thereof in New York under this ‘guardianship,’” Thomas wrote in a statement on Instagram. “These Wendys are not the same. How did her health deteriorate so quickly, and why isn't her only child allowed to be by her side. She wasn't like that when he cared for her."

Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who is suing A&E, Lifetime and the producers of the Where Is Wendy Williams? docuseries on behalf of Williams, says the former talk show host "suffers from frontal lobe dementia, a degenerative brain disease that has no cure."

"As a result, a state court found her to be legally incapacitated, meaning that she is not capable of making legal and financial decisions on her own," Kaplan says in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. "Unfortunately, because of her diagnosis, Wendy’s condition will only get worse with time and she will require care for the rest of her life. But as anyone who has had a family member with dementia knows, Wendy has both good days and bad days. It is truly a shame that there is so much voyeuristic attention to this right now, since it only leads to the same kinds of exploitation that we saw in the so-called documentary, as alleged in our complaint.”

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