Wendy Williams sparks concern on mobility scooter after NYPD is called over dinner outing

Wendy Williams sparked concern on Wednesday night after Coterie, an assisted living facility in New York City, called the NYPD over her dinner outing.

The 60-year-old presenter – who suffers from Graves’ disease and lymphedema – was pictured outside Coterie riding her mobility scooter, which was adorned with Chanel and Louis Vuitton accessories.

For her outing, Wendy was dressed in a green graffiti-emblazoned bomber jacket over a black top, blue-denim Daisy Dukes, black leggings, and matching furry boots.

Coterie filed a police report claiming Williams’ niece Alex Finnie evaded staff by taking her out of the ‘prison-like’ building to visit an Italian restaurant.

‘Clearly, they are lying to me when they say I can go out and do what I want to do,’ the five-time Daytime Emmy nominee told TMZ.

Alex added: ‘I’m wondering how exactly that correlates with the statements that the guardian [Sabrina Morrissey] has made [Wednesday] that Wendy is able to come and go as she pleases and that there are no family visits that are blocked.’

Wendy Williams sparked concern on Wednesday night after Coterie, an assisted living facility in New York City, called the NYPD over her dinner outing

Wendy has repeatedly claimed she can only leave the fifth floor memory unit with permission aka an attendant unlocking the elevator, which is reportedly what happened Wednesday night.

The 60-year-old elder law attorney was originally appointed by a Manhattan judge in 2022 after Williams’ ex-manager Bernie Young reportedly raised concerns that she was of ‘unsound mind,’ which also led to Wells Fargo freezing her bank accounts.

That same judge declared the former talk show host legally incapacitated last August – a year after she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, but she sounded a lot like her old self in recent interviews as well as the Tubi documentary Saving Wendy.

‘She is in great shape mentally and physically,’ Wendy’s younger brother Tommy Williams told Us Weekly on Wednesday. ‘Let her out.’

The Paradise Boat Tours staffer was relieved after Williams went to Lenox Hill Hospital on Monday to have an independent psychiatrist conduct a cognitive test on her, which she passed with ‘flying colors.’

‘Now she has some direction and understanding of her functional abilities and cognizant abilities,’ Tommy said.

‘It’s a win for Wendy, a big one. And she did it herself. It also shows she is fluid with her thoughts and actions.’

Williams added: ‘It’s a wait and see. We want to root Wendy on. We watch and listen and cheer her on. And we are praying.’

The New Jersey native and her caregiver – Connect Care Advisory Group founder Ginalia Monterrosa – are scheduled to speak with the ladies of ABC’s The View via phone call this Friday.

The 60-year-old presenter – who suffers from Graves’ disease and lymphedema – was pictured outside Coterie riding her mobility scooter, which was adorned with Chanel and Louis Vuitton accessories

For her outing, Wendy was dressed in a green graffiti-emblazoned bomber jacket over a black top, blue-denim Daisy Dukes, black leggings, and matching furry boots.

Coterie filed a police report claiming Williams’ niece Alex Finnie (L) evaded staff by taking her out of the ‘prison-like’ building to visit an Italian restaurant

‘Clearly, they are lying to me when they say I can go out and do what I want to do,’ the five-time Daytime Emmy nominee told TMZ

Alex added: ‘I’m wondering how exactly that correlates with the statements that the guardian [Sabrina Morrissey] has made [Wednesday] that Wendy is able to come and go as she pleases and that there are no family visits that are blocked’

Wendy has repeatedly claimed she can only leave the fifth floor memory unit with permission aka an attendant unlocking the elevator, which is reportedly what happened Wednesday night

The 60-year-old elder law attorney was originally appointed by a Manhattan judge in 2022 after Williams’ ex-manager Bernie Young reportedly raised concerns that she was of ‘unsound mind,’ which also led to Wells Fargo freezing her bank accounts 

The former talk show host’s younger brother Tommy Williams (R, posted December 20) told Us Weekly on Wednesday: ‘She is in great shape mentally and physically. Let her out’

The Paradise Boat Tours staffer was relieved after Wendy went to Lenox Hill Hospital on Monday (pictured) to have an independent psychiatrist conduct a cognitive test on her, which she passed with ‘flying colors’ 

Tommy said: ‘Now she has some direction and understanding of her functional abilities and cognizant abilities. It’s a win for Wendy, a big one. And she did it herself. It also shows she is fluid with her thoughts and actions’ (pictured in 2022)

Williams and her caregiver – Connect Care Advisory Group founder Ginalia Monterrosa – are scheduled to speak with the ladies of ABC’s The View via phone call this Friday

‘She is letting the public know it is unfair, it is unjust. She doesn’t need to be in a guardianship. She is not incapacitated. She will continue to voice her opinion,’ Monterrosa told Us.

‘We’d love for her to be in an unrestrictive environment — even at another facility — where she has freedom to come in and out, see her friends, people can call her, she can have an iPad, she can use a two-way phone — not just [a] one way [phone].

‘[She has] the freedom to go to the store and supermarket, to go to the gym, to have a life and the things we take for granted.’