TMZ's Charles Latibeaudiere on Don Lemon's Wendy Williams Interview
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How did Don introduce Wendy Williams' guardianship and initial claims?
Hello, everybody. Welcome to Living Live at Five. We're so happy that you're here. A big show planned for you. So let's get right to it. Make sure you put your comments up and we appreciate your feedback and I'm going to read it in just a moment. But let's talk about the story of the day and it's get away from politics because we're going to have a lot of that next week with the inauguration and the changing of the guard. We've had so much this week. Let's talk about Wendy Williams, who is the hot topic of the moment. She set the record straight this morning. This was her time to set the record straight. She had an explosive conversation with me. Wendy told me that she effectively she feels that she's being held prisoner in her conservatorship.
She alleged that she's not allowed to leave the facility where she is being held in New York. She says the only freedom she has is really looking out the window and maybe the television. And sometimes she may have access to a telephone. So how did Wendy end up in this situation? We've heard about these situations with stars. Remember Britney Spears, conservatorship, and there are others as well. But the most high profile, I believe, Britney Spears and now Wendy Williams. What, if anything, can be done to help her? Are we witnessing the early stages of the free Wendy movement as we did with Britney Spears? So much to discuss. Fortunately, the perfect guest to discuss it with me is Charles Latabudiere. So French.
So French, Don. That was full. You went full Paris, man. Well, I went full Louisiana. All right. All right.
Yeah, that's exactly how they say it in Louisiana.
Charles, so I'm going to I'm going to play a little bit of it, and I just want you to hear, and then I'm going to get your take on this, and we're going to talk about the whole conservatorship and guardianship. Okay, this is the interview. Wendy called me this morning. We're supposed to have a longer conversation. I'll explain later, but here's the beginning of the interview, and I want you to listen. Hi, Wendy.
Hi, Don.
Wendy, I miss you.
Look, my phone is with the Guardian person. You know what I'm saying? The phone that I'm talking on is a phone where I can call you, but you can't call me. I've never heard of a phone like this in my life. Anyway, it's good to talk to you.
It's good to talk to you. They didn't take your phone after this interview you did with Charlemagne, did they?
Listen, look, my life is ridiculous. You know what I'm saying? I've been with this guardian person for three years. For three years of my life, look, I'm isolated. I feel like I'm in prison. You understand? I can't go out. All I can do is look at the window, and any time I go out, it's because I'm going out with the person that the guardian has assigned to me. So if I want to go out, you know, for lunch, you know what I'm saying, that I have got to go with this woman. You know what I'm saying? If I want to go out, like my dad turned 94, you know.
And you can't go. Wendy, let me ask you this. I heard the interview and I want to cover some things that didn't happen in the interview. Now, do you remember the last time that you were at the house? And I'm just going to be honest, you took your wig off and we had a real heart to heart. And I was like, here's the real Wendy. And I said, Wendy, would you ever go on without your wig and do a thing with me? You said, no, because this is how people know me. So, Wendy, I want to know what is what is going on with you? Why are you why do you feel is it do you feel desperate now to that you're in a desperate situation? What's up?
Well, first of all, about my actual hair, my actual hair, you know, is longer, but it's thin.
And that's why we're wig people. Charles, and that's the thing I had to just that she would sort of go off and I'd have to bring her back a little bit. But just listening to that and that's not all of it. What did you think?
The thing that struck me, Don, is that she sounds... really clear, seems very lucid. And what we've heard, in fact, the phrase we heard is that she is permanently incapacitated.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did Don introduce Wendy Williams' guardianship and initial claims?
0:15–7:09
2
What did Wendy say in Don Lemon’s recorded interview about being 'held prisoner'?
7:09–15:47
3
How did Charles Latibeaudiere assess Wendy’s lucidity after the interview clips?
15:47–16:51
4
What legal differences between guardianship and conservatorship were explained?
16:51–50:18
5
How did Wendy describe her financial access and the guardian’s control?
50:18–1:05:31