In the column Straight Nonsense, columnist Moises Mendez II takes a queer eye to the insanity of straight culture.The ongoing conservatorship court case with everyone's favorite talk show host, Wendy Williams, is just as complicated and messy as she is. But that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve our attention. Yes, she's said some terrible things on air and off, but we are continuing to learn of evidence suggesting she may be being taken advantage of by some of the people closest to her.Earlier this week, TMZ reported that an unnamed "top neurologist" performed a series of tests on the former talk show host and determined that she does not have frontotemporal dementia. This is a bombshell in her mounting fight against the conservatorship that she's been vocally opposed to since it was granted three years ago after her bank determined that she was not of sound mind to manage her finances and that she was at risk of being exploited. But it seems as though that, even with a conservatorship, she wasn't immune to being taken advantage of. The entire saga was expertly detailed in New York magazine's October 6 cover story titled, "Wendy Williams Wants Out."After years of her wild antics on The Wendy Williams Show and going toe-to-toe with some of the biggest celebrities in pop culture, the host abruptly left her post in 2021, and the last season was filled in with a few guest hosts before it was taken off the air. In 2022, she was placed under a court-ordered guardianship after representatives for Williams said that she had been diagnosed with the aforementioned neurological condition. In the story, the writer spoke with a few close people in Williams's inner circle, including some family members who wanted to get in touch with the television personality, but said they haven't been able to because of her guardian, an elder care attorney named Sabrina Morrisey. To review, Lifetime released a 2024 documentary called Where Is Wendy Williams? that showed the personality unwell but it wasn't clear what was the root of her malady. She has been open about her diagnosis with Graves' disease, an autoimmune condition that strains the ocular muscles. And in the doc, she was seen drinking often, which can cause cognitive issues. But also, the New York article recounts, there are a few people in her orbit that seem troubling: "a new manager who was in fact her jeweler; a new publicist who oddly had come to her through her estranged ex-husbands attorney (an attorney who would later falsely claim to represent Williams); very few members of her family; and only one visiting friend, the model Blac Chyna.After Williams's legal team obtained this new evidence,TMZ reported that the team plans to file legal documents within the next two weeks to petition a judge to terminate the guardianship. But until then, she will be staying at Coterie, her high-end assisted-living facility in Hudson Yards. Unsurprisingly, the amount of noise the public has made for Williams is an astronomically lower amount than that for Britney Spears. And before critics try to say, "Well, this situation is different," the only real difference is that Spears is younger and white, so therefore she was seen as the perfect victim. She was easier to root for because her case came to light at the height of public reexamination of how media consumers and the entertainment ecosystem treated celebrities in the early 2000s. This reexamination then led to a wave of Renaissance moments for our favorite stars who might have been blacklisted or largely ignored for years, finally getting their redemption arcs Brendan Fraser, Lindsay Lohan, and now Oscar-winner Robert Downey Jr. (though, I'm not forgetting when he did Blackface). Notice the pattern of the people I just listed? Williams is imperfect, abrasive, and, at most times, conspiratorial, but she's still a person asking for help and is surrounded by people who don't seem to have her best interests at heart. She deserves a chance to have her case her in court. And if the rumors that Williams's friends and family are spreading in the piece are true, maybe there is a larger force at play and that should be investigated.But we don't know what's going to happen with the infamous television star. A legal scholar who is an expert in the conservatorship system spoke to New York and gave a harrowing message: "'Most people subject to guardianship do not have it terminated,' said Nina Kohn. You may enter the arrangement voluntarily, but you cannot leave it of your own free will. Williams cannot get out the same way she came in. But Williams is a fighter; just look at her face-off with Whitney Houston. If she can do that, she can do anything.Moises Mendez II is a staff writer at Out magazine. 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