Wendy Williams, the former TV host, is reportedly suffering from severe cognitive impairment and permanent disability due to frontotemporal dementia (FTD), according to a court filing by her guardian. The document claims that her condition is a result of exploitation by media companies and a producer during her vulnerable state.
FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2014 file photo, host Wendy Williams appears at the 2014 Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas.‘ health appears to be in steep decline, with her guardian claiming the former TV host is “permanently incapacitated” following herIn a court filing from earlier this month, and viewed by several publications, lawyers for Williams’ court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, said the 60-year-old “has become cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated” from dementia.
“Unfortunately,” the statement continued, “many individuals diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia face stigma and misunderstanding, particularly when they begin to exhibit behavioral changes but have not yet received a diagnosis.”was filmed between August 2022 and April 2023. Producers on the project said they were, at the time of filming, unaware of Williams’ cognitive issues.
“We shaped the documentary, ultimately, in a way that we felt could benefit Wendy, her family and the world at large,” Ford said. “What started as a story about Wendy and her biography turned into something very different. more about what it is like when your family member, who you care about, is placed under legal guardianship and you don’t have any access to her anymore.
Throughout the documentary, many of Williams’ family members claimed they’d been cut off from contacting Williams, who the family said was surrounded only by people on her payroll. In the second episode, Williams’ manager, Will Selby, finds an empty vodka bottle by the star’s bed and confronts Williams about alleged heavy drinking.
Morrissey said in her filing that while Lifetime has “profited immensely” from the production, Williams herself was paid “a paltry $82,000.”Drake alleges Universal inflated popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’
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