"I want out" TV host Wendy Williams pleads for freedom

Wendy Williams begged for her freedom as she was sighted for the first time in public since February amid an ongoing court-ordered guardianship case. 
The TV personality was walking around New York City Wednesday, August 19, when she was asked by a paparazzi what she had to tell fans about “what she is going through.” 
 “I want out!” the 62-year-old said, as she entered a building accompanied by a male companion. 
 

Williams, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023,  was placed under a conservatorship in May 2022 after Wells Fargo voiced their concerns for her in a letter to a New York Supreme Court judge, claiming that the talk show host was an “incapacitated person” and she needed a “temporary guardian” to ensure her “affairs are being properly handled.” 
The media personality was placed in the guardianship that same month, with Sabrina E. Morrissey, a New York-based attorney, appointed as her legal guardian. 
Williams was opposed to the guardianship, telling “Good Morning America” at the time, “They say that I need somebody to handle my accounts, and I don’t want that. I want all my money.”
“I want to see all my money that I worked hard for my entire life. My entire life,” she added. “I don’t lie, and I don’t cheat, and I don’t steal. I am an honest, hardworking person.” 
At the time, Williams had also been open about her battle with Graves’ disease, which led her to take a hiatus from “The Wendy Williams Show” in 2020.