August 18, 2025 • 11 mins
In this episode Loren brings you an exclusive update on the Wendy Williams conservatorship saga.
Following reports on sources that Wendy Williams has been diagnosed again with dementia — Loren has spoken to her attorney Joe Tacopina.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that,
right cant, Hey, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's Laura l. Rosa and this is the latest with
Laura L. Rosa.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I guess we could do the behind the scenes at
grind check, and it's been a little minute since we
took the time and did that. It's always good to
check on in how you're feeling, what you're doing, what
you got going on.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, I just got back from Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I've been traveling, traveling, traveling, and I was there with
my family, My cousin and who's also my god sister
alreadya married her husband.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Shout out to the moors.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The theme of the wedding was I love you more
So Yes, I got to witness her be married and
it was just amazing. My family was there. She's just
so crazy because I mean she's my older cousin and
she's older than me, you know, as my God said.
But so she's always, you know, been doing like grown
up things. Before I did. But it's just crazy. I
(01:07):
was just, you know, looking at my other cousins that
were there, and I was just like, wow, we really
we're grown up now, Like we are, We're adults, Like
this is a thing, We're a wedding, We're like just
the conversations we were having about buying homes and just
you know, all of that stuff. I'm like, man, we
(01:28):
were here, We're grown as hell now. But it was
a good time, always a good time. My family, y'all
know I love I talk a lot about my family
on the podcast, so you guys know that I'm super
close to my family. So it was a great time.
First time that I took off of work. Look, I'm
gonna say it loud. I took off of work for
a day at the breakfast club, and I felt so
(01:48):
guilty doing it. I felt so guilty. Oh my god,
I felt like a failure. But we closed out the
wedding weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know, we just party.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We had a good time to celebrate us all being
together and being there and all the things.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I wanted to be able to be present a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's hard to do that working in you know, this
lane of things because I have to know what's going on,
who's seeing what, who's doing what, developing and working on angles,
trying to get conversation going that isn't already happening about things.
You know. It just can be a lot to deal
with while also trying to be fully locked into a fan.
So it felt good to actually be able to take
(02:25):
the day. And I was telling my friend who was
there with me that, like me and him were talking
about the trip, and I was saying that the full
time I was there, I didn't really feel like vacation.
It didn't feel like vacation honestly until Sunday. Saturday was
like semi Sunday, I felt like, Okay, I'm on a vacation,
Like I can actually disconnect and stop watching what's happening
in the world and all the things. And I want
(02:46):
to be able to do more of that. I just
don't know what that balance looks like in this industry.
So that's one of the conversations I want to bring
here to Brown Girl Grinding into the Laces with Lona Rosa,
is that balance of things. You know, as I'm growing
and I'm learning this industry and you know, all the
things right, but getting on back to the latest talking
(03:07):
about balance and family, Wendy Williams. It's so crazy because
every time I think about, am I doing something wrong
by taking a break, or by prioritizing myself or anything
like that. I swear y'all I think about Wendy Williams.
I always do. Not that I'm comparing myself to her,
(03:27):
but just seeing you know, how it didn't being very
well known that she didn't put her health first over career,
and you know, we see where she is with family
and trying to figure out getting out of the conservatorship,
just all those things. I have so many thoughts in
my mind every time I think about just how strenuous
working in a fast faced industry can be, and where
(03:50):
I don't want things to end up. But also just
watching her and just wishing the best for her, you know,
no matter where it works out, whether she stays in
the guardianship or she does not, just wishing the best
for her.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So over the weekend, in the end.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Of last week, we had talked about Wendy Williams because
there was a report that came out that Wendy Williams
had completed all of the testing and the scans that
were needed to determine whether or not she was competent
enough to make her own decisions and should she or
should she not be in the guardianship. Now, last week
talked about this just for a quick recap, I told
(04:24):
you guys that nothing has actually been decided on the
guardianship indefinitely. So right now there is a hold on
the guardianship. So Wendy Williams will be in the guardianship
until November, and then in November the judge will make
a decision long term. Now, according to the reports that
went down last week and again, there was a letter
(04:46):
that was submitted to the judge that was from her guardian.
The letter basically said, or her guardian's attorney, excuse me.
And the letter basically said, look, testing is complete. Here
are all the things we think that you should deal
with first when it comes to our guardians and then
we can go back to that a he lawsuit, But
first we need to know what's about to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Who are we about to deal with. Is Wendy going
to be in a conservative ship or is she not?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
What's about to happen with her husband, Kevin Hunter Senior
and his asks for money and everything he's said about
the guardianship. Her family has issues with the guardianship, Like,
let's deal with all the mess figure out who's about
to be.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We only need one chef in the kitchen. Who's it
going to be?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And then we move forward with all the smaller things,
the lawsuit and all the things against A and E currently,
which is because of that Wendy Williams documentary that they did.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So fast forward.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
When we talked about that, I had mentioned and I
reported this on the Breakfast Club. I also talked a
bit about it here, but I mentioned that in the
paperwork that was submitted to the judge that we were
able to see the media, there was no mention of
her actual test results. However, there was an exclusive report
that was put out there about People magazine. They had
it on a source that Wendy Williams testing had read
(05:55):
that she actually was diagnosed with frontual temporal dementia A again,
which is what she was saying she did not have,
and which is why she was saying she wanted the
independent testing done now. Her attorney, Joe Tecapina, released a
statement to me and if you're the outlets, and he
said that those test results were BS that the claim
that the testing was done was BS.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The testing has not been completed.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He alleges it has not been completed by an independent doctor,
which is what was ordered.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Now. I don't know what's going on there. I try
to reach it back out to.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The attorney for the conservatorship to clarify some things. They
haven't said anything. But I reached back out the Joe
Techapina because one of the things that happened over the
weekend was, you know, Wendy Williams was out and by
the way, you know, she's been out looking good and
being able to do dinner with friends and all the
you know those things. So that's good to see that
she's getting some time outside of the facility where she's
(06:45):
living here in New York. But she was out and about.
She ran into TMC and she ran into a few
other outlets. But she gave an interview to page six
where she talked about the fact that because her attorney
when he gave me the statement about the testing and
responsible to those reports, he was pissed. He was so
upset that her medical anything was being discussed. Now, let
(07:07):
me tell y'all, I talked to Joe Takapina today, just
touching base, seeing what's going on, trying to get an update,
and he said to me, I want to read verbatim.
Wendy Williams and her legal team are definitely exploring the
idea of taking legal action following Wendy's medical reports being
allegedly leaked to the media. Now again, the reports that
(07:30):
he's referring to, it's not I don't believe it's the
letter to the judge. It can't be because that letter
didn't say anything besides the tests were complete. But he
might be, you know, he might have something to argue there.
I'm not one hundred percent sure on that, but I
know more directly, he's referring to the sourced information I
was given to People magazine about the actual test results,
(07:53):
because he's a legend at that report is not accurate,
and he's saying, even if it's not accurate, that's still
a hippo violation for Wendy. So they're definitely exploring the
thought of taking legal action when it comes to this
whole conversation, because legally, no one should have known what any.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Results were at all.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
That's supposed to be a private situation, So let me
just tell y'all, Joe Takapina has been you know, every
I've been reaching out to him ever since I've met him,
following the work that he did with Asap Rocky, and
he is very He's a very thorough attorney. Like if
he says he's going to do something, he does it,
he does it two hundred to three hundred percent. So
(08:30):
her attorneys were very upset about the fact that the
information had leaked. So we got to just wait to see.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I mean, I you know, me asking him, Hey, are
you guys going to take legal action? That was the
first thing I thought of, only because I'm like with
Britney Spirits, we didn't know what was going on with
her at all. And then we get the information about Wendy,
and obviously that's supposed to be something that's protected, whether
it's in their favor or it's not. If she wants
to share it, that's different, but it's up to her
(08:58):
to want to make that decision to do that. So
I kind of knew that something in that lane might be,
you know, being discussed. So I just asked him today
and he when I say, very thorough and very to
the point he had no problem. First thing he shot
back was we definitely aren't exploring that, and like I'm
you know, just keep me posted on that. But it's
just a very unfortunate situation because either way this goes,
(09:19):
whether Wendy does need the guardianship or she doesn't, it's
just unfortunate because it does seem like, you know, her
life is just different now. It's very different than what
we got to witness for all of the years in
the decades of Wendy Williams. And I know from having
conversations with her a while back that this is not
a place that anybody wants to be in, you know
(09:40):
what I mean, Like, no one wants to have to
navigate all the things she's having to navigate and do
it publicly whatsoever. But you know, she's here now and
she continuing to try and build a team around her.
I know she had mentioned in this clip another attorney's name,
which I had never heard this attorney's name before, So
this must be because Joe Tekapina is her personal attorney.
He hasn't been granted the ability to be her attorney
(10:01):
in the guardianship. So the Guardian the other attorney that
she mentioned, I'm sure is the attorney that is more
directly working with her on the guardianship. So you know,
she's trying to get a team together, trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But it's just unfortunate to see because who wants to
live like this.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No one wants to be able to not balance their
personal time their family with work and health and all
the things.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And it seems like for Wendy.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Things like at one point things crashed and burned and
she's trying to put the pieces back together to the puzzle,
and it just seems like it's such a slow crawl
for her to be able to do so, so wishing
her the best. I'll be back here with all the
updates and all the ladies as they come. Just wanted
to give you guys an exclusive check in. We'll be
back tomorrow with a full episode of all the things.
(10:44):
At the end of the day, there's always a lot
to talk about, and as I tell you, guys, every
single episode, y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it,
but you choose to be right here with me.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I appreciate you guys so much, my low Riders
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And I will see you in my next episode,
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that,
right cant, Hey, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's Laura l. Rosa and this is the latest with
Laura L. Rosa.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I guess we could do the behind the scenes at
grind check, and it's been a little minute since we
took the time and did that. It's always good to
check on in how you're feeling, what you're doing, what
you got going on.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, I just got back from Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I've been traveling, traveling, traveling, and I was there with
my family, My cousin and who's also my god sister
alreadya married her husband.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Shout out to the moors.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The theme of the wedding was I love you more
So Yes, I got to witness her be married and
it was just amazing. My family was there. She's just
so crazy because I mean she's my older cousin and
she's older than me, you know, as my God said.
But so she's always, you know, been doing like grown
up things. Before I did. But it's just crazy. I
(01:07):
was just, you know, looking at my other cousins that
were there, and I was just like, wow, we really
we're grown up now, Like we are, We're adults, Like
this is a thing, We're a wedding, We're like just
the conversations we were having about buying homes and just
you know, all of that stuff. I'm like, man, we
(01:28):
were here, We're grown as hell now. But it was
a good time, always a good time. My family, y'all
know I love I talk a lot about my family
on the podcast, so you guys know that I'm super
close to my family. So it was a great time.
First time that I took off of work. Look, I'm
gonna say it loud. I took off of work for
a day at the breakfast club, and I felt so
(01:48):
guilty doing it. I felt so guilty. Oh my god,
I felt like a failure. But we closed out the
wedding weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know, we just party.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We had a good time to celebrate us all being
together and being there and all the things.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I wanted to be able to be present a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's hard to do that working in you know, this
lane of things because I have to know what's going on,
who's seeing what, who's doing what, developing and working on angles,
trying to get conversation going that isn't already happening about things.
You know. It just can be a lot to deal
with while also trying to be fully locked into a fan.
So it felt good to actually be able to take
(02:25):
the day. And I was telling my friend who was
there with me that, like me and him were talking
about the trip, and I was saying that the full
time I was there, I didn't really feel like vacation.
It didn't feel like vacation honestly until Sunday. Saturday was
like semi Sunday, I felt like, Okay, I'm on a vacation,
Like I can actually disconnect and stop watching what's happening
in the world and all the things. And I want
(02:46):
to be able to do more of that. I just
don't know what that balance looks like in this industry.
So that's one of the conversations I want to bring
here to Brown Girl Grinding into the Laces with Lona Rosa,
is that balance of things. You know, as I'm growing
and I'm learning this industry and you know, all the
things right, but getting on back to the latest talking
(03:07):
about balance and family, Wendy Williams. It's so crazy because
every time I think about, am I doing something wrong
by taking a break, or by prioritizing myself or anything
like that. I swear y'all I think about Wendy Williams.
I always do. Not that I'm comparing myself to her,
(03:27):
but just seeing you know, how it didn't being very
well known that she didn't put her health first over career,
and you know, we see where she is with family
and trying to figure out getting out of the conservatorship,
just all those things. I have so many thoughts in
my mind every time I think about just how strenuous
working in a fast faced industry can be, and where
(03:50):
I don't want things to end up. But also just
watching her and just wishing the best for her, you know,
no matter where it works out, whether she stays in
the guardianship or she does not, just wishing the best
for her.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So over the weekend, in the end.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Of last week, we had talked about Wendy Williams because
there was a report that came out that Wendy Williams
had completed all of the testing and the scans that
were needed to determine whether or not she was competent
enough to make her own decisions and should she or
should she not be in the guardianship. Now, last week
talked about this just for a quick recap, I told
(04:24):
you guys that nothing has actually been decided on the
guardianship indefinitely. So right now there is a hold on
the guardianship. So Wendy Williams will be in the guardianship
until November, and then in November the judge will make
a decision long term. Now, according to the reports that
went down last week and again, there was a letter
(04:46):
that was submitted to the judge that was from her guardian.
The letter basically said, or her guardian's attorney, excuse me.
And the letter basically said, look, testing is complete. Here
are all the things we think that you should deal
with first when it comes to our guardians and then
we can go back to that a he lawsuit, But
first we need to know what's about to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Who are we about to deal with. Is Wendy going
to be in a conservative ship or is she not?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
What's about to happen with her husband, Kevin Hunter Senior
and his asks for money and everything he's said about
the guardianship. Her family has issues with the guardianship, Like,
let's deal with all the mess figure out who's about
to be.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We only need one chef in the kitchen. Who's it
going to be?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And then we move forward with all the smaller things,
the lawsuit and all the things against A and E currently,
which is because of that Wendy Williams documentary that they did.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So fast forward.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
When we talked about that, I had mentioned and I
reported this on the Breakfast Club. I also talked a
bit about it here, but I mentioned that in the
paperwork that was submitted to the judge that we were
able to see the media, there was no mention of
her actual test results. However, there was an exclusive report
that was put out there about People magazine. They had
it on a source that Wendy Williams testing had read
(05:55):
that she actually was diagnosed with frontual temporal dementia A again,
which is what she was saying she did not have,
and which is why she was saying she wanted the
independent testing done now. Her attorney, Joe Tecapina, released a
statement to me and if you're the outlets, and he
said that those test results were BS that the claim
that the testing was done was BS.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The testing has not been completed.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He alleges it has not been completed by an independent doctor,
which is what was ordered.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Now. I don't know what's going on there. I try
to reach it back out to.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The attorney for the conservatorship to clarify some things. They
haven't said anything. But I reached back out the Joe
Techapina because one of the things that happened over the
weekend was, you know, Wendy Williams was out and by
the way, you know, she's been out looking good and
being able to do dinner with friends and all the
you know those things. So that's good to see that
she's getting some time outside of the facility where she's
(06:45):
living here in New York. But she was out and about.
She ran into TMC and she ran into a few
other outlets. But she gave an interview to page six
where she talked about the fact that because her attorney
when he gave me the statement about the testing and
responsible to those reports, he was pissed. He was so
upset that her medical anything was being discussed. Now, let
(07:07):
me tell y'all, I talked to Joe Takapina today, just
touching base, seeing what's going on, trying to get an update,
and he said to me, I want to read verbatim.
Wendy Williams and her legal team are definitely exploring the
idea of taking legal action following Wendy's medical reports being
allegedly leaked to the media. Now again, the reports that
(07:30):
he's referring to, it's not I don't believe it's the
letter to the judge. It can't be because that letter
didn't say anything besides the tests were complete. But he
might be, you know, he might have something to argue there.
I'm not one hundred percent sure on that, but I
know more directly, he's referring to the sourced information I
was given to People magazine about the actual test results,
(07:53):
because he's a legend at that report is not accurate,
and he's saying, even if it's not accurate, that's still
a hippo violation for Wendy. So they're definitely exploring the
thought of taking legal action when it comes to this
whole conversation, because legally, no one should have known what any.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Results were at all.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
That's supposed to be a private situation, So let me
just tell y'all, Joe Takapina has been you know, every
I've been reaching out to him ever since I've met him,
following the work that he did with Asap Rocky, and
he is very He's a very thorough attorney. Like if
he says he's going to do something, he does it,
he does it two hundred to three hundred percent. So
(08:30):
her attorneys were very upset about the fact that the
information had leaked. So we got to just wait to see.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I mean, I you know, me asking him, Hey, are
you guys going to take legal action? That was the
first thing I thought of, only because I'm like with
Britney Spirits, we didn't know what was going on with
her at all. And then we get the information about Wendy,
and obviously that's supposed to be something that's protected, whether
it's in their favor or it's not. If she wants
to share it, that's different, but it's up to her
(08:58):
to want to make that decision to do that. So
I kind of knew that something in that lane might be,
you know, being discussed. So I just asked him today
and he when I say, very thorough and very to
the point he had no problem. First thing he shot
back was we definitely aren't exploring that, and like I'm
you know, just keep me posted on that. But it's
just a very unfortunate situation because either way this goes,
(09:19):
whether Wendy does need the guardianship or she doesn't, it's
just unfortunate because it does seem like, you know, her
life is just different now. It's very different than what
we got to witness for all of the years in
the decades of Wendy Williams. And I know from having
conversations with her a while back that this is not
a place that anybody wants to be in, you know
(09:40):
what I mean, Like, no one wants to have to
navigate all the things she's having to navigate and do
it publicly whatsoever. But you know, she's here now and
she continuing to try and build a team around her.
I know she had mentioned in this clip another attorney's name,
which I had never heard this attorney's name before, So
this must be because Joe Tekapina is her personal attorney.
He hasn't been granted the ability to be her attorney
(10:01):
in the guardianship. So the Guardian the other attorney that
she mentioned, I'm sure is the attorney that is more
directly working with her on the guardianship. So you know,
she's trying to get a team together, trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But it's just unfortunate to see because who wants to
live like this.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No one wants to be able to not balance their
personal time their family with work and health and all
the things.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And it seems like for Wendy.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Things like at one point things crashed and burned and
she's trying to put the pieces back together to the puzzle,
and it just seems like it's such a slow crawl
for her to be able to do so, so wishing
her the best. I'll be back here with all the
updates and all the ladies as they come. Just wanted
to give you guys an exclusive check in. We'll be
back tomorrow with a full episode of all the things.
(10:44):
At the end of the day, there's always a lot
to talk about, and as I tell you, guys, every
single episode, y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it,
but you choose to be right here with me.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I appreciate you guys so much, my low Riders
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And I will see you in my next episode,
Host
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