Williams, 60, of Asbury Park, is a former radio DJ at stations such as Hot 97 and WBL. She hosted “The Wendy Williams Show” from 2008 to 2021 and stepped down in 2022 due to medical issues. Williams had been previously open about her battles with battles with lymphedema and Graves’ disease. The show aired its final episode in June 2022.

Legendary TV host Wendy Williams gives her first live interview since her dementia diagnosis and a bombshell Lifetime documentary last year.

The former daytime host, who has been diagnosed with dementia, said in an interview on “The Breakfast Club” that she was “not cognitively impaired” and spoke about her life in a care facility.

Wendy Williams is denying claims that she’s in cognitive decline as she breaks her silence on her “prison”-like conservatorship. The 60-year-old New Jersey native and her niece Alex had a phone interview Thursday morning with “The Breakfast Club” radio show to detail the allegedly oppressive conditions to which she’s been subjected in recent years.

Wendy Williams is being held against her will in a high-security treatment facility in New York, the former talk show host said Thursday during an emotional interview with the Breakfast Club. “I feel like I’m in prison.