Wendy Williams 'permanently incapacitated' by dementia battle, guardian claims

Wendy Williams has been near 'permanently incapacitated' by her dementia battle, her guardian has claimed successful the latest ineligible wrangle implicit the star's tell-all documentary.

Host Williams, 60, was diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in May 2023. The diagnosis came 1 twelvemonth aft Wendy was placed nether a court-ordered ineligible guardianship that oversees some her finances and health.

Where Is Wendy Williams?, which aired successful February, was acceptable to research Williams' beingness arsenic she prepared to motorboat a caller podcast- but featured shocking scenes showing the erstwhile big drinking vodka successful furniture and having panic attacks - starring to instrumentality backlash against Lifetime. 

Her guardian Sabrina Morrissey is present locked successful a ineligible conflict with the web implicit the documentary.

In a filing obtained by The US Sun, Morrissey's attorneys called Williams 'an acclaimed entertainer who, tragically, has been afflicted by early-onset dementia and, arsenic a result, has go cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.'

'In January 2022, aft becoming alert of a signifier of disturbing events concerning [Wendy's] payment and finances, Wells Fargo took the highly antithetic measurement of initiating a guardianship proceeding connected its ain inaugural successful the Supreme Court of New York, New York County (the 'Guardianship Proceeding'), to question the tribunal assignment of an autarkic guardian for [Wendy's] fiscal affairs.

The filing further asks for parts of the lawsuit astir Williams' 'health, familial relationships, and finances" to beryllium redacted to support her privacy.

'We respectfully petition that the Court assistance Plaintiff’s question for constricted redactions to support non-public accusation from the Guardianship Proceeding that has been placed nether seal by the tribunal overseeing that proceeding.

New York lawyer Morrissey was assigned arsenic her guardian aft Wells Fargo froze her accounts successful 2022, arsenic a effect of her fiscal advisor astatine the clip claiming that she was of 'unsound mind.'

In March, it was reported that Wendy was allegedly paid $100,000 per occurrence for her engagement successful the four-part docuseries titled Where Is Wendy Williams?

At the aforesaid time, it was revealed that Wendy's guardian had filed a suit against the genitor institution of Lifetime, A&E Television Networks with allegations of 'blatant exploitation' successful 'disgusting' fashion. 

The guardian, Sabrina, filed the suit nether impermanent seal (which keeps details successful the lawsuit protected from the public) past month, but the docs were unsealed and reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter, revealing explosive accusations successful the case.

'This blatant exploitation of a susceptible pistillate with a superior aesculapian information who is beloved by millions wrong and extracurricular of the African American assemblage is disgusting, and it cannot beryllium allowed,' the ineligible squad for Williams' guardian told the court.

Sabrina told the tribunal that the speech amusement big 'did not person the capableness to consent,' according to THR, and producers did not get her consent, arsenic her court-appointed guardian, to nutrient it.

Williams was misled by producers into reasoning that the documentary would beryllium a 'positive and beneficial' task for her nationalist image and reputation, the suit stated.

Williams' publicist has besides blasted the Lifetime documentary that she signed her celebrated TV lawsuit up for. Shawn Zanotti placed blasted connected the producers of the series, alleging the TV icon believed she was filming a programme astir her comeback - lone for filmmakers to seizure 'a circus to her downfall.'

Zanotti, who has been moving arsenic a publicist for Williams since 2021, spoke with NBC News about her grievances with the making of Where is Wendy Williams?, a four-part documentary present airing connected Lifetime. 

In an interrogation with the outlet, Zanotti claimed: 'I felt that [Williams] was being exploited.'

'She thought we were focusing connected the comeback of her career. ... She would beryllium mortified. There's nary mode you tin person maine that she would beryllium OK with looking and seeing herself successful that way.'

She besides told PEOPLE that she felt 'lied to' astir it. 

Despite having encouraged her lawsuit to motion up for the show, Zanotti present says: "I would ne'er fto Wendy enactment her sanction and marque connected the enactment similar that ever. She's an icon. It's not the communicative we signed up for and I consciousness lied to.'

Adding: 'It's truthful hard for maine to adjacent watch. Wendy would beryllium mortified.'