Wendy Williams Claims $60K Was Paid Without Her Approval to Doctor Who Declared Her ‘Incapacitated’ — Now She Wants Answers

Former talk show host Wendy Williams is alleging financial impropriety in connection with her ongoing conservatorship battle.

It’s Getting Messy

According to posts shared on her official Instagram account, funds were allegedly withdrawn from her personal and corporate American Express accounts without her knowledge to pay a psychiatrist who later questioned her mental capacity.

The posts lists dates and the alleged payments. What has not been shown are actual bank statements or invoices from the doctor’s office. If what the Instagram posts says is true, each payment was $10,000 a shot — and there are plenty of them.

The controversy centers around what the screen payments totaling $60,000 allegedly made to Dr. Rami Kaminski across six separate transactions between November 2021 and January 2022. Each payment amounted to $10,000, with the final transaction occurring on Jan. 14, 2022.

Neither Williams’ guardian — Sabrina Morrissey — nor the doctor has addressed the recent allegations.

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According to Williams’ camp, what makes these payments particularly suspicious is their timing in relation to subsequent events that dramatically altered the television personality’s legal autonomy.

“Ms. Williams has been my patient for over a year now. Over the last six months she has been unable to make reasoned decisions and her insight and judgement are severely impaired,” the Williams Instagram account attributes Dr. Kaminski as writing in a letter to Williams’ financial adviser Lori Schiller dated Jan. 20, 2022 — just six days after the final purported payment was processed.

This brief assessment, consisting of just 32 words, became instrumental in legal proceedings that ultimately led to Williams losing control of her financial affairs.

The timeline reveals a complex sequence of events surrounding Williams’ finances.

In February 2022, shortly after Dr. Kaminski’s letter, Schiller alleged that Williams was of “unsound mind,” which prompted Wells Fargo to freeze Williams’ accounts. The bank subsequently requested that a court appoint a temporary guardian for the media personality, effectively blocking her access to her own funds.

Williams contested these actions, filing an affidavit claiming that she had previously fired Schiller for “improper conduct in relation to my accounts.” She also asserted that Wells Fargo had “repeatedly denied my requests to access my financial assets, which total over several million dollars.”

However, Schiller later told Page Six that she had not been terminated and remained the lead adviser on Williams’ account.

By the end of 2022, Williams was placed under a conservatorship, and in 2023, she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia — conditions that affect cognitive function and communication abilities.

Williams has continued to fight against these arrangements.

During a March appearance on “The View,” she directly challenged her diagnosis and conservatorship status. “It was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation, which I don’t have it,” she stated. “How dare they say I have incapacitation? I do not.”

During that same interview, host Sunny Hostin read a statement from Williams’ conservator Morrissey’s attorney, which maintained that the guardianship was established by a judge who declared Williams “legally incapacitated” following her dementia diagnosis. The statement also asserted that Williams has not been separated from her family and is receiving “excellent medical care.”

The recent Instagram revelations regarding the alleged payments to Dr. Kaminski represent the latest development in Williams’ ongoing struggle to regain control of her affairs. The post concluded with a provocative comment about the cost of her situation: “$60,000 for the 32 words used to strip Wendy Williams of her freedom and dignity.”

Williams, who hosted her popular daytime talk show from 2008 until 2021, initially stepped away from her professional duties due to complications from Graves’ disease and thyroid conditions before these legal and financial complications emerged. Recently, one judge said she will never return to her duties as the world’s greatest conveyor of “Hot Topics.”