Emergency responders reportedly took Wendy Williams from her New York assisted living facility Monday after police conducted a wellness check.
After a handwritten note from the former talk show host, aged 60, was thrown from her fifth-floor window seeking help, police were called to the scene, according to sources cited by The New York Post.
“Help! Wendy!!” the note read, according to the Post.
The call for assistance came at about 11:15 a.m., shortly after Williams, who has been diagnosed with dementia, dropped the note.
In a previous report by CrimeOnline, it was mentioned that Williams’ health concerns became evident in the later stages of her tenure on The Wendy Williams Show. She has been candid about her history of cocaine addiction in the 1980s and 1990s, which she managed to overcome without undergoing formal treatment.
Moreover, she received a diagnosis of Graves’ disease, a condition associated with hyperthyroidism. In 2017, Williams collapsed during a show recording, after which guest presenters stepped in for multiple seasons as she grappled with her medical challenges.
“I am not cognitively impaired, but I feel like I am in prison,” Williams said during an interview with The Breakfast Club in January, according to People Magazine. “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, who has been staying in the facility’s memory ward while challenging her court-ordered guardianship, appeared at her window, waving her arms at a Post reporter while talking on the phone.
Shortly after, she left the facility without speaking, escorted by several police officers. Emergency responders helped her into an ambulance before it drove away.
The story is developing. Check back for updates.
[Feature Photo:Wendy Williams attends the world premiere of Apple’s “The Morning Show” at David Geffen Hall on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
