Wendy Williams’ guardian claims that the previous speak present host’s well being is in extreme decline.
In a Nov. 12 court docket submitting obtained by The Publish, attorneys for Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, stated that Williams, 60, “has become cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated” from her dementia battle.
Morrissey is at the moment in a authorized battle with Lifetime over the discharge of the documentary “Where Is Wendy Williams?,” which got here out in February.
The submitting claimed the defendants — Lifetime’s dad or mum firm, A&E Tv Networks, Lifetime Leisure Companies, EOne Productions, Creature Movies and the doc’s govt producer Mark Ford — “cruelly took advantage of [Williams’] cognitive and physical decline by creating and publishing a documentary at a time when [Williams] was highly vulnerable and clearly incapable of consenting to be filmed.”
Williams was identified with main aggressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia — the identical medical points that Bruce Willis is battling — in 2023.
Since Might 2022, she’s been been below a court docket ordered guardianship that oversees her well being and funds after her financial institution, Wells Fargo, claimed she was “incapacitated.”
Morrissey’s authorized staff stated the defendants “intentionally manipulated and goaded” Williams “to trigger strong emotional reactions and acquire embarrassing footage.”
Within the submitting, Morrissey’s attorneys pleaded to the court docket to redact elements of Williams’ “health, familial relationships, and finances” which might be outlined within the case to guard her privateness.
The defendants’ protection was additionally listed within the submitting. They claimed the case arises from Morrissey’s “misguided efforts to attempt to excuse her own failure to protect her ward.”
Additionally they claimed that they had Williams’ “consent, input, and participation” to make the documentary earlier than she was identified with dementia and earlier than she had a guardian.
Within the submitting, Morrissey and the defendants requested a trial that they anticipate will final two to 4 weeks.
The Publish has reached out to Williams’ rep for remark.
Morrissey beforehand filed a lawsuit concerning the doc in September, alleging that Williams was “highly vulnerable and clearly incapable of consenting to being filmed, much less humiliated and exploited.”
In response, the defendants filed countersuits in opposition to Morrissey within the case, which is now being dealt with by the federal court docket.
Earlier than the Lifetime documentary got here out, Williams’ household advised Those that the “Think Like A Man Too” star is in a care facility. Her family members additionally claimed they’ll solely communicate to her when she calls them.
Williams hosted “The Wendy Williams Show” from 2008 to 2022.
Along with the aphasia and dementia diagnoses, Williams has handled a myriad of different well being points together with Graves’ illness and Lymphedema. She’s additionally struggled with alcohol and cocaine habit.
