Wendy Williams’ well being battle has taken a flip for the more severe. The previous speak present host is now “permanently incapacitated” as a consequence of her dementia analysis, based on her guardian.
In new court docket paperwork obtained and made public by Deadline, Williams’ guardian confirms she “has been afflicted by early-onset dementia and, as a result, has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
In Could of 2023, Williams was identified with major aggressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, only one yr after she was positioned below authorized guardianship. The court-ordered guardianship oversees her well being in addition to her funds.
The Nov. 12 court docket submitting includes Williams’ guardian Sabrina Morrissey and the “Where Is Wendy Williams?” documentary. Morrissey filed the swimsuit to cease the discharge of the Lifetime program, which detailed her struggles with well being and alcohol abuse since leaving “The Wendy Williams Show.”
The submitting contains the declare that Lifetime 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.”
Morrissey’s workforce additionally states the doc creators “intentionally manipulated and goaded” her “to trigger strong emotional reactions and acquire embarrassing footage.”
Lifetime claims to have acquired “consent, input, and participation” to make the documentary earlier than the speak present host ever had a guardian.
Following the ending of “The Wendy Williams show” after 12 years in 2022 as a consequence of her medical situation, Williams was changed by Sherri Shepherd who now movies “SHERRI” in the identical studio.
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