For the last few years, Wendy Williams has been lying low. Since 2022, she has been living in a treatment facility and under a conservatorship. Her team announced last year that she had been diagnosed with dementia and aphasia—sharing the latter diagnosis with Bruce Willis. However, the famed talk show host claimed in a February interview that she does not have dementia and implied that she was in the treatment facility against her will.
While living in the facility, Williams has occasionally been spotted by paparazzi going out to dinner with her friends all around New York City. In March, they snapped photos of her gliding around on a mobility scooter after dining at Tucci. In April, she was spotted going to Il Cantinori with ex-CNN host Don Lemon. Now, she’s just been spotted for the first time since.
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TMZ snagged a video of the former talk show host arriving at Le Marais steakhouse near Times Square and greeting her dinner guests—businesswomen Alvina Alston and Tobi Rubenstein outside. In the video, Williams appeared a bit confused. Alston greeted her and gave her a hug, but Williams appeared to not know who she was. “Are you… are you… are you…,” she stuttered, “um… are you Tobi?” Alston then pointed at Rubinstein. Williams exclaimed, “Oh my God, Tobi!” and gave her a big hug.
Despite her initial confusion, the radio legend was all smiles outside the restaurant, sporting bright red lipstick, a studded ‘W’ necklace, and a big Birkin bag.
Williams is currently fighting to get out of her conservatorship in a move reminiscent of the #FreeBritney movement. “I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison,” she said in a January interview on The Breakfast Club. “I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s…Look, I don’t belong here at all. This is ridiculous.”
