WENDY Williams’ niece Alex Finnie has employed a high-powered legal professional to struggle her guardian after the previous TV host claimed she looks like she’s “in a jail.”

The U.S. Solar can completely reveal that Wendy‘s niece, who launched a GoFundMe to boost funds for her well-known aunt final week, has employed Brett Nussbaum and Jason Atlas at New York regulation agency Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP (SSRGA) to assist the star in her struggle with guardian Sabrina Morrissey. 

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A supply on the agency stated they’re “within the technique of being retained” by Alex on behalf of Wendy. 

The agency claims they’ve in depth expertise in authorized proceedings beneath New York’s Psychological Hygiene Legislation Article 81, which is said to Wendy’s guardianship.

It’s unclear the precise nature of what the agency will probably be combating for, or if Alex is pursuing taking up as guardian of her aunt.

Alex launched the household’s GoFundMe final week as her aunt did a sequence of interviews for the primary time since being positioned in a medical facility in New York again in March 2023. 

Wendy’s household created the fundraiser within the former TV host’s identify on Wednesday, January 15, simply earlier than the previous TV host’s explosive interviews with The Breakfast Membership and Don Lemon’s YouTube present.

The GoFundMe web page is titled “Assist Wendy Williams’ Struggle for Independence.” 

Because the web page’s preliminary launch, it has been up to date with particulars about how the fundraiser cash will probably be utilized in Wendy’s struggle, and a particular notice from the previous TV host. 

The household claimed on the fundraiser’s web page: “Your beneficiant donations will straight assist Wendy’s authorized efforts and canopy important prices related along with her case.”

The web page claimed the funds will go to legal professional charges, courtroom submitting charges, skilled witness charges, authorized analysis, documentation, session charges and assist providers. 

The notice from Wendy, listed as an replace on January 21, reads: “I’ve a pink Versace gown and a Victoria’s Secret black bra, and I’m watching Botched, however my physique is hitting and holding with my pink lipstick as a result of it is winter. Nonetheless right here on this luxurious jail! Maintain you all up to date!”

As The U.S. Solar first reported, the GoFundMe initially acknowledged it was launched “to help Wendy Williams’ household in expediting her return to her rightful residence in Florida.”

“For a lot too lengthy, Wendy has confronted the challenges of being unjustly positioned beneath guardianship and labeled as incapacitated, regardless of her sturdy will and willpower to reside her life independently.”

The fundraiser, which is in search of to boost $50,000, has raised $35,000 as of this publish. 

‘PERMANENTLY INCAPACITATED’

The U.S. Solar first revealed that Wendy’s guardian Sabrina Morrissey‘s authorized staff labeled the star “completely incapacitated” in courtroom paperwork.

Wendy pushed again at that categorization in her interviews final week, asking numerous hosts: “Do I sound incapacitated to you?”

Wendy Williams Alcohol-Associated Mind Injury, Aphasia & Frontotemporal Dementia Diagnoses

By The U.S. Solar’s Senior Reporter Jessica Finn, who has reported on Wendy Williams for the previous seven years.

As The U.S. Solar completely reported, Wendy Williams was recognized with alcohol-related mind injury in 2019 throughout a rehab stint in Florida.

An insider defined {that a} mind scan was achieved as a part of Wendy’s rehab keep in Delray Seaside.

A neurologist sat down with the star, her son, and her then-husband, Kevin Hunter Sr.

“The physician defined to them that Wendy was affected by alcohol-related mind injury.

“They advised her that her alcohol abuse had achieved everlasting injury to the layers in her mind,” the insider stated.

“She was warned then and there that if she continued to drink, the injury would solely worsen.”

In that assembly, they gave Wendy a devastating prognosis.

The medical doctors on the rehab foretold of the eventual decline of Wendy’s cognitive talents, which have change into obvious to those that have are available in contact with the star lately.

“They advised her that if she saved ingesting she would proceed to develop extra forgetful, that she would not keep in mind folks’s names, and ultimately, she might neglect who folks even had been,” the supply stated.

After a remark name was despatched to Wendy’s staff, they launched a press release saying Wendy had been recognized with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia in 2023.

“The choice to share this information was troublesome and made after cautious consideration, not solely to advocate for understanding and compassion for Wendy, however to boost consciousness about aphasia and frontotemporal dementia and assist the hundreds of others dealing with related circumstances,” the assertion learn.

The guardian’s starling claims had been made in her courtroom battle with Lifetime over the controversial 2024 docuseries The place is Wendy Williams?.

Within the submitting, the guardian’s legal professional known as Wendy “an acclaimed entertainer who, tragically, has been troubled by early-onset dementia and, in consequence, has change into cognitively impaired and completely incapacitated.”

In 2022, the star formally misplaced her wildly standard, eponymous daytime discuss present after a sequence of private issues.

WENDY BREAKS HER SILENCE

In an interview on January 16, Wendy broke her months-long silence to slam her guardian and beg for her freedom.

“I’m not cognitively impaired,” Wendy advised her former radio co-host Charlamagne that God on The Breakfast Membership.

“You realize what I am saying? However I really feel like I’m in jail.

“I am on this place the place the individuals are of their 90s and their 80s and their 70s.

“For the final three years, I’ve been caught up within the system. This has been three years. I am caught up on this system.”

She burst into tears on the telephone name, and accused the guardian of “emotional abuse.”

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