Wendy Williams Placed in a Facility - Family Has No Idea Where

This weekend Wendy Williams' two-part documentary, 'Where is Wendy Williams,' airs on Lifetime detailing the former daytime talk show host's addiction issues, mental deterioration, conservatorship and subsequent disappearance [click here if you missed that]. 

Wendy's family breaks their silence ahead of the premier and reveal Wendy has been placed in a facility by her conservator but they don't know where...

From People Magazine

“We've all seen the images over the last few months — and, really, few years — of what has seemed like a spiral for my aunt,” says Williams’ niece Alex Finnie, who also appears in the new Lifetime documentary, Where Is Wendy Williams?, premiering Feb. 24. "It was shocking and heartbreaking to see her in this state.”

When the Lifetime documentary crew began filming in August 2022, it set out to follow Williams’ comeback as she prepared to launch a new podcast. The film quickly evolved into something entirely different, as the crew captured Williams (who served as an executive producer on the project) in the throes of alcohol addiction and struggles with health issues including Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder that can cause bulging eyes, and lymphedema, a condition that causes swelling in her feet.

A particularly gut-wrenching scene shows Williams — who turns 60 in July — asking her driver to take her past the former Wendy Williams Show studio, forgetting that he had done so only moments earlier.

"I don’t know what the hell is going on," her driver says in the documentary. "I think she’s losing memory. She doesn’t know who I am sometimes.”

The documentary crew stopped filming Williams in April 2023. That month, she entered a facility to treat “cognitive issues,” her manager and jeweler Will Selby says in the film. Her son reveals in the documentary that doctors have connected these issues to alcohol use.

Williams remains in the facility to this day, and her family says a court-appointed legal guardian is the only person who has unfettered access to her.

Her family says they don’t know where she is and cannot call her themselves, but she can call them.

"The people who love her cannot see her,” says Wendy's sister and Alex's mom Wanda, 65. “I think the big [question] is: How the hell did we get here?”