Latest / The Breakfast Club / We Got An Exclusive: Wendy Williams updates and Pro Choice Reporter Responds
Transcript
- 0:00Speaker 1: Speaks to the Plannet.
- 0:01Speaker 2: I go by the name of Charlamagne the God, and
- 0:02Speaker 2: guess what, I can't wait to see y'all at the
- 0:04Speaker 2: third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. That's right, We're coming
- 0:08Speaker 2: back to Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, April twenty six at Pollman
- 0:11Speaker 2: Yards and it's hosted by none other than Decisions, Decisions,
- 0:14Speaker 2: Mandy B and Weezy. Okay, we got the R and
- 0:17Speaker 2: B Money Podcast with taking Jay Valentine. We got the
- 0:20Speaker 2: Woman of All Podcasts with Saray Jake Roberts. We got
- 0:22Speaker 2: Good Mom's Bad Choices. Carrie Champion will be there with
- 0:25Speaker 2: her next sports podcast and the Trap Nerds podcast with
- 0:28Speaker 2: more to be announced. And of course it's bigger than podcasts.
- 0:31Speaker 2: We're bringing the Black Effect marketplace with black owned businesses
- 0:34Speaker 2: plus the food truck court to keep you fed while
- 0:37Speaker 2: you visit us. All right, listen, you don't want to
- 0:39Speaker 2: miss this. Tappen and grab your tickets now at Black
- 0:42Speaker 2: Effect dot Com Flash Podcast Festival.
- 0:47Speaker 3: Jewye, I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about
- 0:49Speaker 3: everything and everybody, you know, if.
- 0:52Speaker 1: You don't lie about that, right, Laarn came in hot?
- 0:55Speaker 1: All right, clap it up. Clap it up, y'all.
- 0:57Speaker 3: This is episode seven now and the Life of Lorn
- 1:01Speaker 3: the Rosa. Right now, I am sitting here full face beat,
- 1:06Speaker 3: just got my hair recurled. I actually just left the
- 1:09Speaker 3: BET offices. I did a fire Firefire interview with Miss
- 1:13Speaker 3: Carry Hilson, Miss Carry Baby. She has the new project
- 1:17Speaker 3: dropping called We Need to Talk in April eighteenth, and
- 1:20Speaker 3: I spoke to her for a show that I host
- 1:22Speaker 3: called be et Talks. Go check out bet Talks on YouTube.
- 1:25Speaker 3: It's on BT's YouTube channel and it will be a
- 1:27Speaker 3: headed over to BT Plus. But the Carry Hilson interview
- 1:30Speaker 3: will be dropping soon. It probably won't be out by
- 1:31Speaker 3: the time of this video slash audio. Wherever you're listening,
- 1:35Speaker 3: are hearing me? But yeah, that you know what I mean.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Right now, life is it's moving, But I think I'm
- 1:41Speaker 3: finding the balance like we are in the second week,
- 1:44Speaker 3: week two of the podcast. I feel like the first
- 1:46Speaker 3: week of the pod was a lot of like, let's.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Just do it. Get the kinks ouse here what we like,
- 1:51Speaker 1: see we don't like? You know what I mean?
- 1:53Speaker 3: Here back from you guys, the audience on the audio,
- 1:56Speaker 3: the visual to this that, to that we have our
- 2:00Speaker 3: build out of the set design that'll be you guys
- 2:02Speaker 3: will see that soon. So this is our makeshift set.
- 2:05Speaker 3: We'll be here to st our second home until but
- 2:07Speaker 3: I can't wait for you guys to see that as well.
- 2:08Speaker 3: So things are happening. You know, I'm gonna get home
- 2:12Speaker 3: before ten o'clock tonight, so I'm excited cause I'm gonna
- 2:15Speaker 3: get sleep. Okay, but let's not waste any time because
- 2:19Speaker 3: you know, I'm Laura La Rosa.
- 2:21Speaker 1: This is the Latest with.
- 2:22Speaker 3: Laura La Rosa, and I'm the homegirl that knows a
- 2:24Speaker 3: little bit about everything and everybody. And today I am
- 2:29Speaker 3: bringing you guys an exclusive and this is our first
- 2:32Speaker 3: exclusive on the podcast. Yeah you know what I'm saying,
- 2:38Speaker 3: cause like it's real, We are bringing the first exclusive here.
- 2:42Speaker 3: So there's been a lot of conversation around, uh, Wendy Williams. Uh.
- 2:47Speaker 3: There was a ton of conversation around Wendy and if
- 2:51Speaker 3: she would be within the last couple of weeks, if
- 2:53Speaker 3: she would be taking a new capacity test or a
- 2:57Speaker 3: cognitive test. Now I broke the exclusive that Wendy after
- 3:02Speaker 3: being transported to a hospital here in New York from
- 3:05Speaker 3: where she stays at which is the codie. It's like
- 3:08Speaker 3: a she calls it a luxury Wendy calls it a
- 3:11Speaker 3: luxury prison, but it's like a it's like an elder
- 3:14Speaker 3: living space where she is on lockdown.
- 3:18Speaker 1: The floor that she is on lockdown. So when she
- 3:21Speaker 1: was taken to the.
- 3:22Speaker 3: Hospital, she did a cognitive test where they asked her
- 3:26Speaker 3: things like who's the president today, what day to week
- 3:29Speaker 3: is it?
- 3:29Speaker 1: What's your name?
- 3:30Speaker 3: Those type of things, and make sure that things are
- 3:32Speaker 3: just tracking for you and an exclusive that I broke.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Then I told you guys that Wendy actually had passed
- 3:37Speaker 3: that ten out of ten, So ten questions asked, ten
- 3:41Speaker 3: questions answered, ten questions asked, ten questions answered, and passed right,
- 3:46Speaker 3: and we released that story. Now, from what I'm being told,
- 3:52Speaker 3: you know, there's a not even what I'm being told
- 3:55Speaker 3: from what I've been reporting. The conservator, Sabrina Morrissey and
- 4:00Speaker 3: the judge who was over top of Wendy Williams conservatorship
- 4:03Speaker 3: have you know, sat down and had a conversation and said, look,
- 4:06Speaker 3: if Wendy is as miserable as she's saying, if she
- 4:09Speaker 3: is as capable of making these decisions on her own
- 4:12Speaker 3: as she is claiming we want to make sure that
- 4:15Speaker 3: we honor that. According to the judge and according to
- 4:18Speaker 3: the conservator, now Wendy doesn't feel like that. Wendy feels
- 4:21Speaker 3: like she's being taken advantage of right now. You know,
- 4:24Speaker 3: she's had some pretty like stark, harsh claims and that's
- 4:27Speaker 3: why judges like, uh uh uh uh, come back, comes
- 4:31Speaker 3: to at this table, let's have this conversation, let's figure
- 4:33Speaker 3: it out. And having that conversation, the judge determined that
- 4:36Speaker 3: it was necessary for Wendy to take another cognitive testing
- 4:41Speaker 3: or a capacity test or a test for you know,
- 4:44Speaker 3: how well is she able to make decisions, but also
- 4:46Speaker 3: testing to determine whether there's a frontal temple dementia or not.
- 4:51Speaker 3: This was also suggested by before judge said yeah, we
- 4:54Speaker 3: should do this. Sabrina Morrissey, who is currently Wendy Williams conservator,
- 4:59Speaker 3: had actually wrote a letter to the judge saying, look,
- 5:02Speaker 3: I'm being dragged through the mud. She's claiming things that
- 5:05Speaker 3: you know, it's not happening, how she's claiming it. I
- 5:08Speaker 3: propose that we paused the any lawsuit in relationship to
- 5:12Speaker 3: the doc that Wendy Williams had on lifetime and we
- 5:17Speaker 3: get another test, like, let's just you know what I mean,
- 5:19Speaker 3: Let's take this test. Let's get it out of here.
- 5:21Speaker 3: Take the test. Does she have the frontal temporal dementia
- 5:23Speaker 3: or not? Can she make her own decisions or not?
- 5:26Speaker 3: If she doesn't have it, If she's deemed that she
- 5:28Speaker 3: can make her own decisions, we'll step.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Out of her way.
- 5:30Speaker 3: Of course, Wendy will have assistance from the court, but
- 5:32Speaker 3: she can appoint new attorneys, a new conservator, all of
- 5:35Speaker 3: that stuff, right. So then Sabrina came out and she
- 5:39Speaker 3: gave quotes to various outlets and she said that Wendy
- 5:43Speaker 3: Williams denied.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Taking that test.
- 5:48Speaker 3: Now there was a quote in People from Wendy that
- 5:51Speaker 3: said she knew nothing about what Sabrina was talking about.
- 5:56Speaker 1: And more recent headlines.
- 5:57Speaker 3: Joe Takapina, who was the most He's an attorney for
- 6:01Speaker 3: Asat Rocky and his trial, his gun trial. He's also
- 6:05Speaker 3: worked with Michael Jackson like he's He's done some pretty notable,
- 6:08Speaker 3: well known cases like and won them. So Joe Takapina
- 6:13Speaker 3: has We've also had my Breakfast club too.
- 6:15Speaker 1: It was a great interview, go watch it.
- 6:16Speaker 3: He's decided to come on to serve as Wendy Williams
- 6:20Speaker 3: personal attorney. Now the goal and him coming on and
- 6:23Speaker 3: serving as his personal attorney, of course, it's to get
- 6:26Speaker 3: in on the guardianship. Like he wants to be the
- 6:28Speaker 3: attorney that is helping to make sure that this guardianship
- 6:31Speaker 3: is not taking advantage of Wendy. But from the way
- 6:35Speaker 3: that he breaks it down, it's levels to this. You
- 6:37Speaker 3: can't just come in and you know what I mean,
- 6:39Speaker 3: Like there are certain things that have to be approved
- 6:40Speaker 3: by judges and things of that nature. So while all
- 6:43Speaker 3: that is working out, he's agreed to be her personal attorney. Now,
- 6:48Speaker 3: in him being her personal attorney, I think that this
- 6:52Speaker 3: will definitely set you know, because she's had she's let
- 6:55Speaker 3: go of, you know, attorney's appointed by the court, bought
- 6:58Speaker 3: in a new it was like a black woman attorney
- 7:01Speaker 3: that she was super excited about. We broke that story
- 7:03Speaker 3: as well, and then we also broke the story that
- 7:05Speaker 3: Wendy decided to step away from that attorney even though
- 7:07Speaker 3: that attorney has still been acting in Wendy's favor. But
- 7:11Speaker 3: with Joe Takapina coming in, it's like it's about the up.
- 7:15Speaker 3: It like You're not about to be able to play
- 7:16Speaker 3: with Wendy at all. He did an interview with I
- 7:19Speaker 3: believe it was Newsweek. It wasn't in his TMD interview.
- 7:25Speaker 3: I believe it was in his Newsweek interview. It was
- 7:27Speaker 3: an outlet where he said, basically like I'm not even
- 7:31Speaker 3: trying to like shake the room.
- 7:33Speaker 1: We just want Wendy to be treated fairly.
- 7:35Speaker 3: We want her to have, you know, better, easier stipulations,
- 7:38Speaker 3: and for her to have more say so. But in
- 7:41Speaker 3: the midst of this, if that does not happen, you
- 7:43Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, like, I'm willing to do, you know,
- 7:45Speaker 3: kind of whatever I need to do, but it's big
- 7:49Speaker 3: business over here. Y'all don't want to see me in
- 7:51Speaker 3: that court room. He literally has said that in interviews.
- 7:54Speaker 3: So I spoke to a source close because with all
- 7:57Speaker 3: of this mounting up the way that it is, I
- 7:59Speaker 3: want to know did Wendy say no to that test
- 8:03Speaker 3: and if so, why, like why I say no? And
- 8:07Speaker 3: if she said no, what's the plan? What is going
- 8:10Speaker 3: to happen next? Because she needs that test for multiple reasons.
- 8:13Speaker 3: She needs that test because she needs to be able
- 8:15Speaker 3: to prove that she can make her own decisions. As
- 8:16Speaker 3: I mentioned, she needs to be able to prove that
- 8:20Speaker 3: she's cognitively aware and able to live somewhere that you know,
- 8:24Speaker 3: doesn't have certain stipulations and that you know what I mean,
- 8:26Speaker 3: like all that stuff, but also too just to kind
- 8:29Speaker 3: of at this point now figure out even how she's
- 8:32Speaker 3: going to control this A and E lawsuit for that
- 8:35Speaker 3: lifetime documentary that she's saying that she did not want,
- 8:38Speaker 3: because that is on stay and on stay basically means
- 8:41Speaker 3: it's on whole for three months until this test is taken,
- 8:43Speaker 3: and then once the test is taken, a judge will
- 8:45Speaker 3: determine who can make the decision of what happens next,
- 8:48Speaker 3: whether it's Windy or a conservator. So I spoke to
- 8:51Speaker 3: a source who would know, So it's very close to
- 8:54Speaker 3: the situation that told me that Wendy is not against
- 8:59Speaker 3: taking any testing. The thing here is is that Wendy
- 9:03Speaker 3: Williams wants to make sure that if she's going to
- 9:06Speaker 3: be taking a test that is going to be determining
- 9:09Speaker 3: whether she is, you know, cognitively impaired or not, whether
- 9:13Speaker 3: she has the dementia dementia that they are claiming that
- 9:16Speaker 3: she has or not. She wants it to be fair,
- 9:19Speaker 3: So she wants to get a third party independent evaluation done,
- 9:24Speaker 3: something that I honestly think is really, really smart, and
- 9:28Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell y'all why. She also wants to make
- 9:30Speaker 3: sure that whoever is doing the testing, when I say independent,
- 9:35Speaker 3: is not appointed by the judge, because they just want
- 9:37Speaker 3: to make sure there's no bias whatsoever. So the reports
- 9:40Speaker 3: that Wendy is not open to taking the tests are
- 9:43Speaker 3: not true. From everything I'm being told is that she's
- 9:46Speaker 3: open to taking it. She actually has a court date
- 9:49Speaker 3: coming up on May tenth, and on May tenth, they'll
- 9:54Speaker 3: be having a conversation about you know, the attorneys and
- 9:58Speaker 3: who will beware, but also that testing and wanting an
- 10:01Speaker 3: independent you know, situation or independent testing that is not
- 10:06Speaker 3: chosen or appointed by the conservator or the judge.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Now, I am.
- 10:11Speaker 3: Also told that if Joe Takapina is denied the ability
- 10:16Speaker 3: to work within Wendy's case, there will be legal lawsuits
- 10:21Speaker 3: that will happen against the setup, against the judge, just
- 10:26Speaker 3: because you know, rightfully, the way that you know this
- 10:29Speaker 3: whole thing is set up is like it should be
- 10:31Speaker 3: in the best interest of the person who needs the
- 10:33Speaker 3: guidance in the structure of the conservatorship, and Wendy does
- 10:36Speaker 3: not feel like this is that. So from what I
- 10:38Speaker 3: am told, lawsuits will fly if this does not happen.
- 10:44Speaker 3: So look, we're gonna stay lots and figure out what
- 10:47Speaker 3: and how that will end up once a tenth comes. Now,
- 10:50Speaker 3: in all of this, I started thinking, like, okay, so
- 10:54Speaker 3: if this cognitive test, this test was supposed to happen
- 11:00Speaker 3: like what like I wanna say, like two weeks ago,
- 11:03Speaker 3: and it hasn't happened. Right, A judge has decided we're
- 11:06Speaker 3: gonna hold off on this whole civil lawsuit over here
- 11:09Speaker 3: against a lifetime because.
- 11:13Speaker 1: And for this test.
- 11:15Speaker 3: What happens if this test just doesn't happen, like what
- 11:18Speaker 3: happens if in three months, because even though these conversations
- 11:22Speaker 3: are being had about whether Wendy's gonna take this tests
- 11:24Speaker 3: or not, you still have three months to figure out
- 11:28Speaker 3: and to submit testing and just different things in relation
- 11:31Speaker 3: to that A and E lawsuit for Wendy, because that's
- 11:34Speaker 3: how long the judge ordered for everything to hold as
- 11:37Speaker 3: far as that and that's not cut short because you
- 11:39Speaker 3: know they're trying to figure out attorneys and blah, blah
- 11:41Speaker 3: blah blah blah, like that three months. Even if Wendy
- 11:44Speaker 3: had took the tests today and the test results hadn't
- 11:47Speaker 3: come back for another four months, that three months is
- 11:51Speaker 3: still there, and they would have waited for that fourth
- 11:52Speaker 3: month to get those results to figure out what happens next.
- 11:55Speaker 3: Not saying that, you know it's possible, that's a long
- 11:57Speaker 3: time to wait. Sure, it's gonna move faster than that,
- 11:59Speaker 3: but I'm just saying though, like that three months is there,
- 12:02Speaker 3: it's up, and it stuck.
- 12:04Speaker 1: So I started reaching out, and I actually spoke to ROBERTA.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Kaplan's office, who was the attorney working the AI lawsuit
- 12:11Speaker 1: on behalf of Wendy Williams and her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey. Now,
- 12:16Speaker 1: she told me.
- 12:17Speaker 3: A few things, but I'm actually not going to discuss
- 12:19Speaker 3: that here. I want to have a conversation about that
- 12:22Speaker 3: in the room on the Breakfast Club. So make sure
- 12:24Speaker 3: you guys tune in to the Breakfast Club where we'll
- 12:27Speaker 3: be discussing how everything I just exclusively told you guys first,
- 12:30Speaker 3: you heard it here first, how that will affect this
- 12:33Speaker 3: grand any lifetime lawsuit that right now is centered as
- 12:38Speaker 3: Wendy Williams and her conservative versus Lifetime, and Wendy is saying,
- 12:40Speaker 3: y'all don't want this, so make sure y'all tune into
- 12:43Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club.
- 12:43Speaker 1: To hear that.
- 12:46Speaker 3: And in final and in closing our last story of
- 12:49Speaker 3: the day, I told you guys, and I talked to
- 12:51Speaker 3: you guys about the viral video of the woman in
- 12:54Speaker 3: New York punching the reporter who she's not for abortion whatsoever. Now,
- 13:02Speaker 3: this woman, her name is Brianna, who punched the reporter.
- 13:06Speaker 3: It's very you know, for abortion and the right to
- 13:10Speaker 3: do so and woman's bodies and all of that in
- 13:13Speaker 3: a clash from everything that I'm being told right now.
- 13:15Speaker 3: Savannah Crane, who is the woman who was doing the interview,
- 13:18Speaker 3: the woman who was super you.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Know, pro life. Abortions are bad, abortions are wrong.
- 13:24Speaker 3: I did speak with her, and what she told me
- 13:28Speaker 3: was that currently she is exploring every option under the
- 13:32Speaker 3: law that is available to her.
- 13:34Speaker 1: So she is planning to file a civil lawsuit against
- 13:38Speaker 1: Brianna for punching her on camera in that interview.
- 13:42Speaker 3: Because of the conversation that they were having, I asked
- 13:45Speaker 3: her if she had already obtained an attorney, where she
- 13:48Speaker 3: was in that process. If they're just having conversations, if
- 13:50Speaker 3: the attorney is officially retained or on retainer, you know,
- 13:53Speaker 3: money is paid, so things are moving, and she did
- 13:55Speaker 3: not want to disclose that at this time.
- 13:57Speaker 1: However, she did tell me that they will be.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Planning to file a civil suit, but right now what
- 14:03Speaker 3: they're waiting for is they're trying to see if there
- 14:06Speaker 3: will be if there will even be at all, you know,
- 14:09Speaker 3: depending on how the police's investigation goes and arrest made,
- 14:13Speaker 3: and then from there they're going to figure out everything
- 14:16Speaker 3: else the lawsuit. And I knew when I saw the video,
- 14:21Speaker 3: my first thought was, regardless of whose side anybody sits on,
- 14:25Speaker 3: whether you think Brianna was right forgetting with Savannah, because
- 14:30Speaker 3: she said she was, you know, antagonized the whole time,
- 14:32Speaker 3: and that the full video you know, allegedly wasn't released.
- 14:36Speaker 3: And maybe that's something I'm gonna cass Savannah back to
- 14:38Speaker 3: and asks her about.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Is you know what's her response to.
- 14:41Speaker 3: Brihanna saying, hey girl, drop the whole video, Like, drop
- 14:44Speaker 3: the whole video?
- 14:45Speaker 1: What's up?
- 14:46Speaker 3: I watched a full video of sorts on Savannah's YouTube channel,
- 14:50Speaker 3: not just that fifteen second clip of or fifteen minute
- 14:53Speaker 3: clip of Brianna, the woman who was being interviewed, punching Savannah,
- 15:00Speaker 3: the pro life activist who was doing the interviews, and
- 15:06Speaker 3: I knew, I'm like, okay, a lawsuit is gonna come.
- 15:09Speaker 3: It's no way, it's no way. But I also I
- 15:12Speaker 3: thought that I watched the full video. But according to Briano,
- 15:15Speaker 3: who was the woman who was being interviewed and said
- 15:16Speaker 3: that she was antagonized, she said, there's more to it,
- 15:19Speaker 3: there's more video, and she's she's challenging Savannah to put
- 15:21Speaker 3: out that full video.
- 15:22Speaker 1: So tomorrow I'll be, you know, taking this to I'm
- 15:27Speaker 1: not real sure if I'll take this to the breakfast club,
- 15:28Speaker 1: and now I think I will, though we'll do that.
- 15:30Speaker 3: We'll take this to the breakfast club as well too,
- 15:33Speaker 3: just to kind of ping pong it between the two shows,
- 15:35Speaker 3: and I'll be able to, you know, give you guys
- 15:37Speaker 3: another update in the realm of this, but also answered
- 15:39Speaker 3: the question of like, is there a full video and
- 15:41Speaker 3: where is it at if so, so.
- 15:44Speaker 1: This has been the latest with Laura Le Rosa.
- 15:46Speaker 3: As I tell you guys, always, at the end of
- 15:48Speaker 3: the day, there's always a lot to talk about, and
- 15:51Speaker 3: you could be anywhere with anybody talking about it. So
- 15:53Speaker 3: y'all know, I appreciate y'all whenever you're right here with me.
- 15:57Speaker 3: I'm the homegrowd that knows a little bit about everything,
- 15:59Speaker 3: and every I'm signing out, I'm going to sleep. I'm
- 16:02Speaker 3: gonna get in my bed before nine o'clock tonight. I
- 16:05Speaker 3: haven't done that in a week.
- 16:06Speaker 1: God is good. Thank y'all for tuning in.
- 16:08Speaker 3: Make sure you tweet me at Laura l Rosa. Tag
- 16:12Speaker 3: me on Instagram at Laura LaRosa. Let me know y'all listening.
- 16:14Speaker 3: Let me know how I feel about the topics.
- 16:16Speaker 1: I heard y'all.
- 16:16Speaker 3: Y'all said, make it different than the breakfast club. Okay,
- 16:19Speaker 3: it's different, it's exclusive. How y'all feeling now?
- 16:21Speaker 1: Talk to me. I really want to know your name?
- 16:24Speaker 3: I really ooh I heard that. I swear I could
- 16:27Speaker 3: sing now because I had one low song on the radio.
- 16:29Speaker 3: I'll see y'all in my next episode.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Bye.