Wendy Williams Taken To Hospital After Dropping Troubling Note

Wendy Williams has been escorted to a hospital after the media maven dropped a note out of the window of the assisted living facility where she currently resides.

PageSix reports that the former talk show host dropped a note out of her window Monday (March 10) down to a paparazzo, requesting their assistance. The message simply read, “HELP! WENDY!!” Police reportedly performed a wellness check in response to the fallen message, with TMZ reporting that she was then taken to Lenox Hill Hospital. Footage shows Williams exiting her building with police escorts, who lead her to an ambulance she gets into on her own, followed by footage of them heading to the Upper East Side hospital. The purpose of the visit is to conduct, “an independent examination as to whether her cognitive functions are sufficiently intact to end her guardianship.”

Williams has previously compared residing in the assisted living facility to “prison.”

“I am not cognitively impaired. But I feel like I am in prison,” Williams detailed to DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God, and guest host Loren LoRosa on The Breakfast Club. “I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s. There’s something wrong with these people here on this floor.”

Reports of the incident come just hours after New York authorities launched two separate investigations into Williams’ guardianship, including with the NYPD and Adult Protective Services, TMZ also reported.

Wendy Williams has been fighting to end her guardianship for months, firing her court-appointed lawyer in January and inquiring about the services of A$AP Rocky’s trial attorney, Joe Tacopina. In February, Williams signed an affidavit requesting the guardianship be terminated, adding that she had “regained capacity” to function without her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morrissey.