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Wendy Williams says she feels like she is in prison as she continues her fight to end her court appointed guardianship. As if almost on cue, Williams may have proved her point when the assisted living facility where she resides on the fifth floor, Coterie, called police claiming the 60-year-old TV host had been kidnapped by her niece, Alex Finnie. The report Coterie filed with the NYPD claims Finnie evaded staff by taking her Aunt Wendy out of the building to eat at an Italian restaurant.  

After the police are called, Williams and her niece use the incident as an example of how confining the guardianship has allegedly become. Speaking with paparazzi outside Coterie, niece Alex Finnie says Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey claims Wendy is able to come and go as she pleases and no family visits are blocked. Finnie wonders how that statement correlates with Coterie calling police when Williams leaves the facility to have dinner, escorted down the elevator by a staff member. Williams tells the interviewer, 'Clearly, they are lying to me when they say I can go out and do what I want to do." 

Wendy Williams claims she is only able to leave the fifth-floor memory unit of Coterie if she has permission and an attendant unlocks the elevator. After Coterie calls police about Williams being kidnapped by her niece, Williams seizes the moment to point out how the guardianship has become excessively confining. 

This week,  an emergency petition filed by Williams' attorney to have her moved from what she calls a Luxury Prison, to a less restrictive environment, has been approved by Judge Lisa Sokoloff. Williams will be moved to what is being described as a private condo where she will have more freedom to come and go as well as have visitors. 

Joining Nancy Grace today:

• Elizabeth J. McInturff  - Attorney specializing in Guardianship Issues / Partner at Selzer Gurvitch, website: www.selzergurvitch.com; LinkedIn @elizabethmcinturff; Facebook @elizabeth.mcinturff.12 
• Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker,”  featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock www.drbethanymarshall.com, Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, Twitter: @DrBethanyLive
• Ashley Wardlow  -  Private Investigator and Chief Operations Officers at Nathans Investigations, has experience investigating conservatorship issues; website: www.nathans-investigations.com, IG: @miamiprivateinvestigators, FB: nathansinvestigations
• Dr. Kendall Crowns -  Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), NEW Podcast --- launching on April 7th, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
• Jessica Finn - Senior Investigative Reporter at The U.S. Sun, the-sun.com, jessicafinnnyc (Twitter/ IG) @jessicafinn.bsky.social  

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