Wendy Williams’ guardian claims the former talk show host’s health is seriously declining.
In a Nov. 12 court filing obtained by The Post, attorneys for Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, said Williams, 60, “has become cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and incapacitated.” dementia fight,
morrissey is Currently in legal battle With Lifetime upon the release of The documentary “Where’s Wendy Williams?” Which came out in February.
The filing claims the defendants — Lifetime’s parent company, A&E Television Networks, Lifetime Entertainment Services, eOne Productions, Creature Films and the doc’s executive producer Mark Ford — cruelly took advantage of them. [Williams’] The cognitive and physical decline from making and publishing a documentary at such a time [Williams] She was extremely vulnerable and clearly incapable of consenting to filming.”
Williams was initially diagnosed with Aggressive Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia – Same medical issues Bruce Willis Struggling – in 2023.
Since May 2022, she has been under a court-ordered conservatorship that oversees her health and finances after her bank, Wells Fargo, claimed she was “incompetent.”
Morrissey’s legal team said the defendants “deliberately manipulated and provoked Williams to elicit strong emotional reactions and obtain embarrassing footage.”
In the filing, Morrissey’s attorneys requested the court redact aspects of Williams’ “health, family relationships and finances” that are outlined in the case to protect her privacy.
The defendants’ defense was also listed in the filing. He claimed that the case arose from Morrissey’s “misguided attempts to excuse his failure to protect his ward”.
He also claimed that he had Williams’s “consent, input and participation”. make a documentary Before she was diagnosed with dementia and before she had a guardian.
In the filing, Morrissey and the defendants requested a trial, which they expect to last two to four weeks.
The Post has contacted Williams’ rep for comment.
Morrissey previously filed a lawsuit regarding the documentary in September, alleging that Williams was “highly vulnerable and apparently incapable of consenting to being filmed, let alone being humiliated and exploited.”
In response, the defendants filed a counter-suit against Morrissey in the case, which is now being handled by federal court.
Before the Lifetime documentary came out, Williams’ family told People that the “Think Like a Man Too” star is in a care facilityHer loved ones also claimed that they can talk to her only if she calls them.
Williams hosted “The Wendy Williams Show” from 2008 to 2022.
In addition to the aphasia and dementia diagnoses, Williams has dealt with a myriad of other health issues, including Graves’ disease and lymphedema. he too has struggled alcohol and cocaine addiction,
