Former talk show host Wendy Williams said she is not “cognitively impaired” and has been “trapped” in an emotionally abusive conservatorship in her first interview since the airing of a controversial documentary about her dementia diagnosis.

Friends of Wendy Williams have set up a GoFundMe account to help the former talk show queen obtain independence from her conservatorship.

Wendy Williams’ family has launched a GoFundMe to raise $50,000 so they can free the star from the ‘loneliness and deep isolation’ of her conservatorship. “Friends of the Williams Family” organized the “Support Wendy Williams’ Fight for Independence” fundraiser earlier this week in the hope of “expediting her return” from a New York wellness facility “to her rightful home” in Miami,