Wendy Williams ‘incapacitated’ from dementia battle, guardian says

Wendy Williams’ wellness conflict has taken a crook for the worse. The erstwhile speech amusement big is present “permanently incapacitated” owed to her dementia diagnosis, according to her guardian.

In caller court documents obtained and made nationalist by Deadline, Williams’ guardian confirms she “has been afflicted by early-onset dementia and, arsenic a result, has go cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”

In May of 2023, Williams was diagnosed with superior assertive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, conscionable 1 twelvemonth aft she was placed nether ineligible guardianship. The court-ordered guardianship oversees her wellness arsenic good arsenic her finances.

The  Nov. 12 tribunal filing involves Williams’ guardian Sabrina Morrissey and the “Where Is Wendy Williams?” documentary. Morrissey filed the suit to halt the merchandise of the Lifetime program, which elaborate her struggles with wellness and intoxicant maltreatment since leaving “The Wendy Williams Show.”

Wendy Williams attends SiriusXM Town Hall with Wendy Williams hosted by SiriusXM big Karen Hunter astatine SiriusXM Studios connected July 23, 2019 successful New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

The filing includes the assertion that Lifetime and the doc’s enforcement shaper Mark Ford “cruelly took vantage of Williams’ cognitive and carnal diminution by creating and publishing a documentary astatine a clip erstwhile Williams was highly susceptible and intelligibly incapable of consenting to beryllium filmed.”

Morrissey’s squad besides states the doc creators “intentionally manipulated and goaded” her “to trigger beardown affectional reactions and get embarrassing footage.”

Lifetime claims to person acquired “consent, input, and participation” to marque the documentary earlier the speech amusement big ever had a guardian.

Following the ending of “The Wendy Williams show” aft 12 years successful 2022 owed to her aesculapian condition, Williams was replaced by Sherri Shepherd who present films “SHERRI” successful the aforesaid studio.