A psychiatrist at the New York hospital where Wendy Williams was taken Monday has reportedly determined that her mental capacity is intact.
Williams, 60, arrived by ambulance at Lenox Hill Hospital Monday morning after cops were called to her assisted living facility for a wellness check when the former daytime talk show host tossed a handwritten note pleading for help out a window.
Once at Lenox Hill, the former shock jock was given a psychological examination called a “capacity test” and scored a “10 out of 10,” answering each of 10 questions used to determine whether she was alert and oriented correctly, according to TMZ.
The exam Williams took may have been the Abbreviated Mental Test Score, based on TMZ’s description. The test, used to assess the possibility of dementia in elderly patients, includes 10 questions, such as the subject’s date of birth, address, and who the current president is, according to Medical News Today. Each correct answer earns one point. A score of six or below indicates a patient may be suffering from dementia or delirium.
Williams is currently under court-ordered guardianship after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. She has disputed the diagnosis and is fighting to end the guardianship.
Doctors allegedly did not conduct any tests that could indicate whether she was misdiagnosed.
The results of the capacity test will reportedly be sent to the judge in Williams’ guardianship case, per TMZ.
The call for Williams’ wellness check came in at about 11:15 a.m. after she tossed the note from the window of her fifth-story room in the assisted living facility, police sources told The Post.
“Help! Wendy!!” the note said.
The former “Wendy Williams Show” host, who was moved to the memory unit of her residential facility in the early days of her stay, was also spotted at the window waving her arms at a Post reporter while speaking on the phone.
Not long after, Williams exited the facility with a police escort, who helped her into a waiting ambulance.
Her legal guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, has stated in court filings that Williams had “become cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated” from dementia.
Williams, however, has insisted she is of sound mind, telling TMZ that she is being held in a “prison” and is “not allowed” to go outside of her own free will.
Last month, she scored a small legal victory in her battle to be freed from the conservatorship when Morrissey informed a judge she would be open to Williams undergoing a new medical evaluation given the TV star’s dissent from her dementia diagnosis.
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