A former long-time producer of The Wendy Williams Present has opened up concerning the controversial guardianship that host Williams has been preventing to do away with. Suzanne Bass shared a video on her Instagram on Thursday, February 27, revealing her latest chat along with her long-time collaborator.
“You guys have been asking me for years if I’ve heard from Wendy,” she mentioned within the video earlier than revealing that she reconnected along with her previous pal over the cellphone not too long ago. Bass shared that the previous speak present host known as her out of the blue final week.
“My cellphone rang, and it was Wendy. I cried, she cried,” Bass added. The previous producer additionally shared that Williams sounded higher than she had in years. In 2022, the media character entered a guardianship to guard her funds whereas she was coping with a number of well being points.
Williams has been identified with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia, which was introduced to the world in February 2024. Given her vital well being situation, Williams signed the guardianship, however on the time, her interior circle was nervous she gave an excessive amount of management to the authority.
They feared that it might be one other Britney Spears conservatorship case. That’s precisely what occurred, leaving Williams to struggle for her freedom. Bass informed her followers that she’s studying increasingly more concerning the authorized battle day-after-day.
“This horrible guardianship she’s in — It’s horrible, and it’s terrifying,” she admitted. Bass concluded her message by campaigning #FreeWendy and asking her followers to ship Williams love, help, and prayers to assist her struggle by way of the authorized battle.
After the latter couldn’t constantly host her speak present on account of her well being points, together with her struggles with Graves’ illness, it was canceled indefinitely by the channel in February 2022. Since then, her life has derailed.
Not solely was she identified with a number of new diseases, however she additionally felt “incapacitated” and financially exploited after Wells Fargo froze her accounts and the court docket ordered her to take up guardianship.