Former talk show host Wendy Williams called in for an interview on The View this morning, speaking passionately about her recent travails of life in a memory care unit that made headlines when she went out to dinner with her niece and may or may not have had permission to leave the assisted living facility.

Wendy Williams’ answer to “How you doin’?” is a lot more complicated these days. The former daytime titan made a rare televised “appearance” on Friday, joining the ladies of The View for a wide-ranging phone interview that touched on everything from her controversial guardianship to the location of The Wendy Williams Show‘s iconic purple chair

Wendy Williams, 60, called into “The View” on Friday to speak with co-hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin. The former television host started off the prerecorded interview by explaining why she went to the hospital on Monday.