Hey, welcome to Drop Dead Serious. I'm Ashley Banfield, and today I've got something super special.

Little known fact. In the 37 years that I've been doing television journalism, I've made some

super neat friends in the business. One of them I count as Wendy Williams. I've been

on her show a couple of times. I was a fill in host for her at one point. I've, you know,

done some, some public charity work with her and always really liked her. She's just my really

wild sort of pal, you know. She lives, she always lived a very wild life.

And I think as you probably know, Wendy has had a really bad last few years because banking issues

and financial abuse led to Wells Fargo Bank requesting a judge to put her under a financial conservatorship,

which meant that her assets and funds were frozen from anybody who might have been helping themselves.

There were lots of headlines that it was her son Kevin and maybe family members who were doing things they shouldn't have done financially.

I think Wendy is acknowledging that now. But I've got an interview with Wendy. She has called me from the

facility where she is locked up virtually as a luxury prisoner, as she puts it. She has no

freedom of movement. She can't even go down an elevator and told me today that even

shampoo and lotion has to be brought to her if she wants it.

Let me give you just a brief overview of everything that Wendy has been through, starting with like March of 2022.

Temporary financial guardian was put in place.

Sabrina Morrissey is her name.

She was appointed for Wendy Williams by a judge, again, because of the Wells Fargo financial abuses

that were happening on her accounts. In May of 2022, the court confirmed Sabrina Morrissey

as the permanent financial guardian. Then in 2023, Wendy was diagnosed with frontotemporal

dementia and primary progressive aphasia. In February of

2024, that blockbuster docu-series, where is Wendy Williams dropped? And you, I mean, the

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