Wendy Williams moved to memory unit at assisted living facility after getting drunk at lunch: report
Wendy Williams was transferred to the memory unit of her assisted living facility after allegedly getting drunk at the facility’s restaurant, according to a new report.The beloved talk show host’s dementia diagnosis, however, does not appear to have played a part in the move, TMZ reported on Tuesday.Williams allegedly became intoxicated in the early days of her stay when she had lunch at the facility’s top-floor restaurant and bar.Supervisors were reportedly furious when they learned that the daytime star, who allegedly stayed at the restaurant for a long time, was served alcohol.An employee at the facility told TMZ that supervisors then decided to relocate the former “Wendy Williams Show” host to the facility’s fifth-floor memory unit, where she would not have unrestricted access to the elevator and, by extension, the restaurant and bar.The memory ward, however, was full, which allegedly led facility bosses to station employees outside Williams’ third-floor room to restrict her movements while they waited for another to become available on floor five.Staff reportedly told Williams that the restaurant was under construction and not open, according to TMZ.A few days after the incident at the restaurant, a spot on the fifth floor opened up, and Williams was moved there, where she has been ever since.Of the star’s memory, an employee at the facility told TMZ, “Wendy doesn’t have good and bad days.
She’s the same all the time.” They added, “You can tell her something today and 2 weeks later she’ll remember it.Her memory is fine.”The Post reached out to William’s lawyers, who declined to comment.Williams has been under guardianship since 2022.
She was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia the following year.The daytime talk show queen’s guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, said last November that Williams “has become cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated” from her dementia battle.In a recent documentar...