Wendy Williams Moved from Locked Memory Unit

Last week former daytime talk show host Wendy Williams' attorney filed an emergency motion to have her moved to a less restrictive unit at her court ordered assisted living facility [click here if you missed that]. 

The request was granted and Wendy has been removed from the locked memory unit...

From The Sun

WENDY Williams' first step to freedom has been granted as the star battles her guardianship in court after being locked up at a New York City senior living facility.

In exclusive photos and videos obtained by The U.S. Sun, Wendy, 60, beamed on her way out of court on Monday after she faced the judge who holds the keys to her freedom from the restrictive guardianship she is in under Sabrina Morrissey.

After the hearing, Wendy stopped and chatted with a photographer who asked her if court went her way.

She responded "It did."

Then when asked if the emergency petitions went in her favor, she responded, "They did, thank you!"

The U.S. Sun can exclusively reveal Judge Lisa Sokoloff agreed to allow the former queen of daytime TV to move from the secured memory unit that Wendy has called a "luxury prison."

She lived there for the past half year to an unsecured floor in the independent living section at the facility.

As The U.S. Sun previously reported, Wendy's attorney, Sadatu Salami, filed an emergency petition last week to have the star moved from her restrictive living arrangement, an issue which seems to have been at least temporarily resolved in court on Monday.

"She will be in like a private condo now. She will have much more freedom to come and go as she pleases, she'll be able to have visitors, and she'll be free to leave when she wants," the insider said.

Wendy, who has never been photographed at guardianship court before, was there for a number of other important reasons as well.

"Her team will also begin settlement talks for the guardianship," the insider said.

"Ultimately Wendy wants completely out of the arrangement, but there are some tests she'll have to face moving forward to see just how much freedom she will be given, and if that means she's entirely free from the guardianship, or if she will be granted less oversight in the future with some other legal arrangement.

"But all that will be determined in the coming weeks."

The source continued, "Basically the judge took issue with the cognitive test she took last week at Mt. Sinai.

"The judge said that doesn't prove incapacitation it just proves that she is coherent, cognitive and alert.

"So Wendy will be doing another, full cognitive workup to determine her cognitive ability and get a neurological exam for her frontotemporal dementia diagnosis."