Wendy Williams’ guardian hit with counter lawsuit from A&E

Wendy Williams’ tragic conflict with dementia is playing retired successful a caller tribunal quality betwixt her ineligible guardian Sabrina Morrissey and A&E Networks.

Following the release of tribunal documents filed by Morrissey claiming the erstwhile speech amusement big was “incapacitated anterior to and during filming” for Lifetime’s documentary “Where Is Wendy Williams?,” A&E has filed a countersuit alleging Morrissey is trying to distract from her ain nonaccomplishment to support Williams.

Lifetime’s genitor institution filed the suit successful effect to Morrissey’s Nov. 12 filing, which claimed the web didn’t person Williams’ consent oregon a valid declaration to aerial the arguable doc successful February. Morrissey says Williams’ rapidly declining condition near her “clearly incapable of consenting to being filmed, overmuch little humiliated and exploited.”

The program, which elaborate Williams’ fiscal troubles, wellness struggles and intoxicant abuse, “cruelly took vantage of Williams’ cognitive and carnal decline,” Morrissey says successful the documents. She claims producers “intentionally manipulated and goaded” Williams successful bid to “trigger beardown affectional reactions and get embarrassing footage.”

In response, A&E says Morrissey is infringing connected their First Amendment rights by trying to get portions of the documentary removed oregon changed, according to court documents obtained by TMZ.

The media institution insists that Williams signed a endowment statement anterior to her dementia diagnosis and earlier she ever had a ineligible guardian. They accidental they person a close to archer her story, noting there’s nary instrumentality against releasing a documentary connected a taxable with dementia.

The suit claims Morrissey is present trying to contradict Williams “one of her past chances to workout her autonomy and honestly scope her fans successful precisely the frank and unfiltered mode that was the hallmark of her career.”

Wendy Williams hosted her eponymous speech amusement for 14 years earlier it came to an extremity successful 2022 amid her declining wellness but earlier she received her dementia diagnosis. In February of this year, her erstwhile producers said they feared it was “impossible” the speech amusement big would ever instrumentality to TV.