I caught up with Wendy Williams and asked how SHE was doin’

Catching up with Wendy

Civilization knew the Wendy Williams TV show. They don’t exactly know the how, what or why — but they read or heard she ended up in some guardianship. Rosanna Scotto’s her friend. Mine, too.

So how to get through to her? Calling Putin’s easier.

Wendy: “You hear the words ‘aphasia’ and ‘dementia.’ ”

Also the terms floated around are “cognitive impairment” and “permanent incapacity.”

Wendy: “What am I to do?”

This is a memory care unit for the so-called cognitively impaired and/or permanently incapacitated. We spoke on several phone calls.

Wendy, sounding sharp: “I’ve by now rested my case. It’s $25,000 a month here. There’s grass, trees, two floors, no cars around. Can’t even do the elevator to go down. It, too, is locked. I once was a connoisseur of food and now sometimes I’ll just have meals in my room. And I don’t drink.

“And I’m 61. And mine is a locked floor. And there’s also an in and out hospital.

“There’s always security with me. Look, I go to church every Sunday. It’s the Christian Cultural Center — 10 a.m. I go with a personal aide.

“Understand, I did a daily TV show 14 years. This watching over me also deals with dresses. I was tall. Looking gorgeous. Now all my good stuff’s in storage. I’m just not going to have some guy follow me into storage. This means, what am I going to wear? Those days we wore long. So I cut the stuff down. I’ve now turned skirts into shorts.

“What I do is I keep things in my notebook. They say it’s dementia and aphasia.

“Best I can do is Monday and Friday I go to the gym. Let me tell you something else — and that is that I don’t know exactly how, what, why but I have gone through a lot of s - - t.”

Learning from recent history

FROM a long ago longtime uniformed member of our Army: “Stalin did not conceal ambitions. Whoever occupies a territory imposes his own system — as far as his army can reach.” Gen. Patton: “The Soviets began satellite states across Eastern Europe preying on nations weakened by the Nazi occupation.” Which explains Stalin’s 1950 confidence when he supported North Korea’s invasion of South Korea. The US, under UN command, forced the Communists back. The armistice lasted 73 years. The international response against Communism was a show of global solidarity. Watch. Putin needs to succeed where Stalin failed.

Dying to see this

To continue with our Love thy Neighbor mentality: Comes “Five Must Die,” a supernatural thriller film that blends supernatural horror and dark humor into a nightmare where survival comes at a price. The film also contains something called the Federal Bureau of Paranormal Containment. And this kind of food is going to help our children grow up?

Birds & the bees

LOOK, maybe this whole world is somewhat off. John Wayne once said he married a prostitute . . . River Phoenix: “I lost my virginity at age 4” . . . Harpo Marx played piano in brothels . . . Paul Gauguin had three different teenage “wives” . . . David Niven’s first was a prostitute named Nessie.

NEW California convert: “I’m going to fill my swimming pool with martinis.” Asked why, he said: “This makes it impossible to drown.” Why?

“Because the deeper you sink the higher you get.” Oy!