The #FreeWendy movement picked up steam after Wendy Williams’ appearance on “The View” Friday.
Several fans took to social media after the episode aired to remark how the beloved talk show host sounded “fine” and express why they think she should no longer be in her controversial guardianship.
“Wendy sounds absolutely fine!!!” one person wrote via X, adding, “NO person should have their human rights confiscated in the name of ‘protecting money’ – not Britney [Spears], not Wendy, not Mickey Rooney. #FreeWendy.”
Another said they felt “horrified” watching the interview because Williams, 60, sounded “conscious and present,” adding, “But now I’m even more confused!!! Like is she just having a good day? Wow.”
A third viewer remarked, “Wendy Williams sounds fine to me. #TheView she sounds sane to me.”
Two others agreed that Williams sounded like “her authentic self” or as she always has, which is a belief that many of the “View” co-hosts also supported after the interview concluded.
“Wendy, you have a lot of support in this audience and from us. We hope that you’re doing better — you sound really good to us,” Joy Behar said Friday before asking her fellow panelists, “Right?”
After the co-hosts quietly agreed, Williams chimed in, “I sound like me. You know, the thing is is that I’m finally out. I’m finally able to speak, you know. I wish I were allowed to actually put on nice clothing and come see you in person, but I cannot.”
Earlier in the interview, the former “Wendy Williams Show” host slammed her guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey, for claiming she had become “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
Williams — whose team said she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia in February 2024 — said, “How dare they say I have incapacitation. I do not!”
The ex-radio DJ said she went to the hospital Monday because she had “agita,” and while there, she got bloodwork done for her thyroid issues and requested an independent evaluation on her “incapacitation” — which she adamantly denied she has.
It was previously reported that Williams aced the psych test with “flying colors,” but a source told Page Six exclusively Thursday that she will need to undergo a more thorough examination that will involve MRI scans and evaluations by a neurologist and a dementia expert in order for her guardianship to end.
On “The View,” Williams also defended her recent New York City outing with her niece, Alex Finnie, which prompted officials at her assisted living facility to file a police report for “kidnapping.”
“We went to Tucci, great dinner! There were paparazzi, so we stopped. That’s what I do. I stopped, posed, and these two people that work here … they’re downstairs waiting for me,” she explained.
“I’m not permitted to do anything but stay on this floor, memory unit.”
Williams acknowledged she was once in favor of the guardianship because it was meant to protect her finances, but she said the control that it has had over her entire life has led her to “isolation.”
“It’s time for my money and my life to get back to status quo,” she said.
Williams admitted, though, that she had a setback last summer when she suffered an alcohol relapse — despite already being under the guardianship at the time. (She has had a legal guardian since 2022.)
“Moving forward, the relationship [with drugs and alcohol] is fine and it’s wonderful because I’ve had my devices, and I have to tell you something, I am easily going on with my life alcohol-free for the rest of my life,” Williams said, sparking cheers from the audience and the co-hosts.
The former daytime diva then confessed, however, “When I got from Connecticut to New York, it was my birthday, July 18, and yes, I celebrated, you know what I’m saying?”
Williams concluded with the caveat, “But no more, no more alcohol, thank you.”
