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Wendy Williams ‘completely incapacitated’ as a consequence of dementia, guardian says

By Editorial Board Published November 29, 2024 3 Min Read
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Wendy Williams ‘completely incapacitated’ as a consequence of dementia, guardian says

Wendy Williams has turn into “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated,” based on a memo filed by her guardian’s attorneys.

The previous US speak present host, 60, was recognized with major progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023, the identical type of the sickness as actor Bruce Willis.

Her guardian Sabrina Morrissey has now launched a lawsuit towards A&E Tv Networks, Lifetime Leisure Providers, and others in reference to the discharge of the docuseries “Where is Wendy Williams?” in February.

The 2-part sequence began filming in 2022, at a time the place Williams had been absent from her self-titled speak present as a consequence of well being causes.

The sequence stopped filming in April 2023 when her son knowledgeable the crew she had been recognized with a type of dementia, based on the filmmakers.

Williams’s guardian tried to dam the sequence from airing in February, however a decide dominated within the broadcast’s favour.

It claims that Williams “was highly vulnerable and clearly incapable of consenting to being filmed, much less humiliated and exploited”.

The criticism mentioned earnings from the sequence ought to go to Williams, who “will need significant funding to provide for proper medical care and supervision for the rest of her life”.

Williams hosted her self-titled present from 2008 to 2021, earlier than it resulted in 2022 as a consequence of her well being points.

She had beforehand been open with the general public about her struggles with habit.

Williams mentioned in 2018 that she had been recognized years earlier than with Graves’ illness, which ends up in the overproduction of thyroid hormones and may trigger wide-ranging signs that may have an effect on general well being.

Nevertheless, the docuseries filmmakers advised NBC in February they weren’t conscious of Williams’s prognosis throughout manufacturing.

Erica Hanson, an government producer on the docuseries, advised the Related Press in February that the target of the present was to doc Williams making adjustments in her life, going through obstacles, and popping out the opposite facet.

Brie Bryant, Lifetime’s senior vice chairman of non-scripted programming, added: “The only thing that we care about at Lifetime is that she had a platform to tell her story, and that we feel we did so responsibly, and that she gets well and hopefully gets to be with her family.”

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