We need to talk about Wendy Williams.The talk show host has lost access to all her money and can’t pay her bills, court documents reveal.
The news comes just one week after Williams’ filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo.Radar Online reports that Williams no longer has control over her own assets as part of an ongoing dispute with her former financial advisor, Lori Schiller.Schiller previously told Wells Fargo that Williams wasn’t of sound mind and shouldn’t have access to her own accounts.Related: That time André Leon Talley put Wendy Williams in her place for asking about his sexuality on live TVCourt documents reveal that Wells Fargo “denied [Wendy] any access, whether online or otherwise, to her financial accounts, assets, and statements based on the advisement” of Ms.
Schiller.“[Wells Fargo] is going beyond the scope of the authority granted by the provision because [Williams] is completely denying Petitioner the ability to access or even view, whether online or otherwise, her financial assets and statements, which [Wells Fargo] has requested for the purpose of ascertaining the current standing of her accounts and which is not a “transaction” as contemplated under the Agreements,” the filings read.Williams now claims she can’t pay any of her bills.
This bizarre turn of events follows her disappearance from public life last year.Though The Wendy Williams Show remains in production, a series of guest hosts have filled in for Williams’ absence while she has reportedly checked into a Florida health facility amid rumors that she’s suffering from dementia.Related: Instead of apologizing to the gays, Wendy Williams needs to fix herselfProducers say Williams will not return to her role until at least March and have left open.