Wendy Williams hopes to free her from her guardianship

Wendy Williams' family wants to free the former talk show host from her conservatorship.

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The star's family launched a GoFundMe to raise $50,000 to free the star from the “loneliness and profound isolation” of several years of guardianship. According to reports from The American sunthe Williams family created the GoFundMe on Wednesday, January 15, shortly before his interviews on The Breakfast Club and Don Lemon's YouTube show.

The fundraiser, titled “Support Wendy Williams' Fight for Independence,” explains their mission with a description that reads: “An emergency GoFundMe fundraiser is being organized to help Wendy Williams' family expedite his return to his rightful home in Florida. For too long, Wendy faced the challenge of being unfairly placed under guardianship and labeled as incapable, despite her strong will and determination to live her life independently.

Wendy's family is looking to raise $50,000.

The effort comes as the former talk show titan broke her silence following her diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, saying she was far from cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.

The 60 year old man called The breakfast club Thursday, where she insisted: “I am not cognitively impaired. But I feel like I'm in prison.

“I'm in this place where people are 90, 80 and 70,” she explained after host Charlamagne Tha God revealed that Wendy couldn't leave her current location because she was under conservatorship. “There’s something wrong with these people here on this floor.”

On the contrary, Roberta Kaplan, Williams' lawyer, spoke with TMZinsisting the star still suffers from frontal lobe dementia and that people shouldn't assume she's okay just because she's doing interviews.

Suffering from an incurable neurological disease, Roberta says a New York state court has deemed Wendy incapable of making legal and financial decisions on her own and will need care for the rest of her life. Yet Wendy doesn't go through 365 days of failing health every year, with some days being better than others. That's why, according to Kaplan, Williams sounded so lucid when she called into The Breakfast Club.

Despite her family's insistence that Wendy is doing just fine and should be left to her own devices, Kaplan begs fans not to be misled by Wendy's interviews.