Amid campaign for ‘freedom,’ Wendy Williams gets support of stars including Don Lemon and Alec and Hilaria Baldwin

Amid her campaign to be released from a legal guardianship, Wendy Williams is enjoying the support of stars including Don Lemon and Alec and Hilaria Baldwin.

The former talk show host has been declared by a judge to be incapacited and put under the control of a court-appointed guardian, and she says she’s being made to live in facility she calls a “luxury prison.”

She’s now launched a legal bid — as well as something of a public campaign for hearts and minds — to get herself out of both.

On Thursday, the former talk show host was spotted out having dinner with Don Lemon at Il Cantanori in NYC. Williams and Lemon were joined by her niece, Alex Finnie and her boyfriend, and the former CNN anchor’s husband, Tim Malone, we hear.

We’re told she appeared to be in great spirits and “doing well,” at the Greenwich Village Italian eatery, and several fans approached her to say hello. “She was sharp, sweet and fun,” a source told Page Six.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin were also dining at the restaurant, and popped over to Williams’ table, where they appeared “totally supportive of her,” according to an onlooker.

“They told her she was strong and she’ll beat this, and they’re behind her,” the source said.

Lemon later talked about the evening on his eponymous YouTube show.

He revealed it was Alec’s first time meeting Williams, and Hilaria told her, “‘I’ve been thinking about you Wendy. I’ve been worried about you.’”

Lemon described Williams as a foodie and said: “Wendy was like, ‘I’m gonna eat everything, Don, because the food where I am [living] is awful!’”

“She remembered details to things I couldn’t remember,” he said, “The irony that [she’s been admitted to] memory unit at this [facility where she’s living],” he said.

As for whether or not she should be living independently, he said: “Yes, and no.” “I think she should be free in the sense that she has more autonomy. She can go out to dinner with people,” he said, but added, “She would have a monitor or a coach with her, and of course security.”

Earlier in the day, Williams appeared in court before Judge Lisa Sokoloff, who reportedly accused her niece of leaking to the press, and, according to TMZ “out of the blue” announced that Williams’ TV career “is over.”

A Page Six source blasted the judge as “outrageous” and “mean-spirited” for her remarks about Williams’ career.

Lemon also wrote on his Substace that Williams is “about becoming the woman she never got to be before – on her own terms, in her own time.”

“And if you ask me – that might be the most powerful Wendy we’ve seen yet,” he said.

WIlliams and her niece met with star lawyer Joe Tacopina, who recently joined her legal team, at the Ned before her dinner date with Lemon.

Tacopina told us: “She wants her dignity back. She deserves it. She’s handling it all with class.”

And she won’t give up without a fight, he told us. “She’s Wendy Williams. She’s a strong woman. She’s built that way,” he said.