A&E has countersued Wendy Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, amid the continuing authorized battle over the controversial Lifetime documentary in regards to the former discuss present host.
In a brand new lawsuit, the cable community argued that that they had the fitting to air the “Where Is Wendy Williams?” docuseries that Morrissey tried to get shut down when it premiered in February, in response to TMZ.
A&E mentioned that Williams, 60, signed a expertise settlement earlier than she grew to become mentally “incapacitated” from her dementia battle.
Morrissey, in the meantime, is suing A&E for allegedly profiting from Williams and airing her private struggles within the doc.
A&E now countersued Morrissey for allegedly making an attempt to infringe upon the corporate’s First Modification rights — particularly, when she took authorized motion earlier this 12 months to plead with a choose to cease the docuseries from airing.
In accordance with TMZ, the community claimed that Morrissey is making an attempt to disclaim Williams “one of her last chances to exercise her autonomy and honestly reach her fans in exactly the frank and unfiltered manner that was the hallmark of her career.”
The Submit has reached out to Williams’ rep for remark.
Williams has been beneath a court-ordered guardianship that oversees her well being and funds since she was recognized with major progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. The previous radio host is allegedly in a care facility with restricted contact together with her household.
In February, Morrissey launched a lawsuit towards A&E. Nonetheless, her makes an attempt to cancel “Where Is Wendy Williams?” had been unsuccessful.
Williams was allegedly solely paid $82,000 for the controversial doc.
In a single scene, Williams visited her hometown of Asbury Park, NJ, and identified her childhood avenue, solely to be informed by a stranger that it was on a distinct highway.
One other scene confirmed a confused Williams yelling at her driver and former publicist to purchase vape pens. After they arrived at her common smoke store, a disoriented Williams threw a tantrum.
Just lately, Morrissey’s attorneys filed court docket paperwork claiming that A&E, Lifetime, and different events concerned in making the documentary “cruelly took advantage” of Williams’ “cognitive and physical decline” and requested a trial to type out the case.
Morrissey’s authorized workforce mentioned Williams is at the moment “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated” from her dementia battle.
Within the submitting, A&E, Lifetime, and the remainder of the defendants argued that they had Williams’ “consent, input, and participation” to make the documentary earlier than she was recognized with dementia and earlier than she had a guardian.
Additionally they mentioned Morrissey began the authorized battle “to attempt to excuse her own failure to protect” Williams.
Williams has stepped away from the general public eye amid her well being struggles.
She informed her followers she wanted “personal space and peace to thrive” after going public together with her frontotemporal dementia and aphasia diagnoses in Feb. 2024.
“I hope that others with FTD may benefit from my story,” she mentioned in an announcement. “Please just know that your positivity and encouragement are deeply appreciated.”
