Wendy Williams reportedly taken to hospital after pleading with paparazzi

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Wendy Williams was taken to the hospital Monday following her alleged plea for help to the paparazzi.

According to Page Six, sources revealed that police were called to the assisted living facility in Hudson Yards on Monday, March 10 after Williams, 60, dropped a note out her window reading, “Help! Wendy!!” for photographers below.

ABC News then shared that police responded to a 911 wellness check call at the same location about a woman in distress shortly after, where officers arrived to find the media personality calm and composed. According to the outlet, she was not restrained and was able to walk to the waiting ambulance with the help of several police officers. The NYPD confirmed the incident was treated as a routine service call and there is no active investigation.

In an interview with The Breakfast Club back in January, Williams opened up about her ongoing struggle to regain control of her life and the living conditions in her facility. “I feel like I am in prison,” she revealed, saying she is “not cognitively impaired.”

“I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s,” she told host Charlamagne Tha God. “There’s something wrong with these people here on this floor.”

The TV personality also mentioned how she “can’t even leave [to] take a walk” or “visit family members,” before calling her experience “emotional abuse.”

Williams has been under a court-ordered guardianship since 2022 and received a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in early 2024. The statement from her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, explained that aphasia, which affects language and communication, and frontotemporal dementia, which impacts cognitive functions and behavior, have created substantial challenges in the former talk show host’s life.

Earlier this year Williams formally requested a judge to terminate her guardianship and in late January, dismissed her court-appointed attorney, reportedly stating that she had “regained [the] capacity” to manage her life independently.