Wendy Williams was out and about in New York City.
The former talk show host, 60, was spotted at Tucci, an Italian restaurant in the area’s NoHo neighborhood, on Saturday, March 15, days after her temporary removal from her assisted living facility and subsequent hospital stay for evaluation.
Williams smiled widely as she arrived in a motorized scooter to the spot while dressed in a luxurious, fur-trim coat and sporting a bold red lip.
Earlier in the week, on Wednesday, March 12, the former Wendy Williams Show host enjoyed her newfound freedom with another dinner at the NoHo spot. She was joined then by her niece, Alex Finnie.
The duo’s time together marked a rare outing for the star, who, with her niece’s support, has been vocal about how “suffocating” and “lonely” her life has been of late.
The dinner also came just two days after Williams was removed from Coterie, an assisted living facility located in Hudson Yards, after dropping a note out of her window that allegedly read, “Help! Wendy!!” per The New York Post.
On Monday, March 10, Williams, who lives in the memory unit of Coterie, was removed from the facility by the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Officers responded to Coterie for a welfare check at the time, a spokesperson for the NYPD confirmed to PEOPLE. Williams was then escorted out of the building and transported to a local hospital “for evaluation.”
The former TV personality has been living under a legal guardianship that oversees both her finances and health since May 2022. In recent months, she has been in an ongoing legal battle to end her conservatorship with her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, who claims Williams is “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated.”
“I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison,” Williams said while appearing on The Breakfast Club alongside niece Finnie in January.
“I’m in this place with people who are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s,” she added. “These people, there’s something wrong with these people here on this floor. I am clearly not.”
Williams also said that elevators in the facility (which she has referred to as a “prison”) are locked and visitors are restricted, and claimed that she is unable to come and go as she pleases.
The star also alleged that she is unaware of what medications the facility is administering to her.
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Reflecting on her recent departure from Coterie in a new interview on The View, Williams said she was “having a little angina” and “just needed a breath of fresh air.”
“I needed to see the doctors. So that’s why I went to the hospital,” she claimed in the episode, which aired Friday, March 14. “And then, while I was at the hospital, I also got blood drawn for my thyroid, you know? But most importantly, being at the hospital, it was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation, which I don’t have it. How dare they say I have incapacitations! I do not.”
Williams also spoke with The View hosts about her dinner with Finnie. “I thought it was great, at first! Alex and the boyfriend, they flew from Miami to New York,” she said of her niece. “They got me at the hospital. With permission from the guardian, of course, we left the hospital by [ambulance] and we stayed here [at the facility] for, I don’t know, about an hour because we knew that we were going out just to celebrate, you know, life.”
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