Wendy Williams’ former longtime producer Suzanne Bass blasted the former talk show host’s guardianship as “horrible” and “terrifying.”
“You guys have been asking me for years if I’ve heard from Wendy, and what I’m doing to help Wendy,” Bass said in a video shared via Instagram on Friday, February 28.
“I’m gonna be honest,” she continued, “I hadn’t heard from Wendy in years until last week. My phone rang, and it was Wendy. I cried, she cried, Brendan cried, Jack was home, my oldest, he didn’t cry, but he said I had to work.”
Williams “sounds fantastic,” Bass continued, adding that the former TV host “sounds the best she has sounded in years.”
Bass has been “learning every day since then more and more about her story, what she’s been through, what she’s going through, this horrible guardianship she’s in. It is horrible and it’s terrifying. And so, #FreeWendy all the way all day,” she concluded.
Williams was all smiles when she was spotted at Miami International Airport on February 15, while coasting through the airport on a motorized scooter. A source close to the former talk show host told Us exclusively in January that she was doing much better amid her health issues.
“She’s still Wendy,” the source said. “Her conversations are just as rhythmic and her mindset is open.
In February 2024, Williams revealed she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia. “Receiving a diagnosis has enabled Wendy to receive the medical care she requires,” her rep said at the time.
“The decision to share this news was difficult and made after careful consideration, not only to advocate for understanding and compassion for Wendy, but to raise awareness about aphasia and frontotemporal dementia and support the thousands of others facing similar circumstances.”
Williams has rarely appeared in public since sharing the news, but she was seen with her son Kevin Hunter Jr. in August 2024, and she attended his graduation four months later in December 2024.
The insider also shared that Williams sometimes uses a scooter as a result of her lymphedema, a type of tissue swelling caused by an accumulation of fluid that’s usually drained through the body’s lymphatic system. Williams opened up about her experience with the condition in 2019.
She also took three weeks off from her show to deal with Graves’ disease in 2018. At the time, her rep told Us Weekly, “Wendy’s doctor prescribed a necessary three weeks of rest to get her levels and medication in sync.”
