Wendy Williams Is 'Permanently Incapacitated,' Guardian Says

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Earlier this year, before the release of a controversial Lifetime documentary, Wendy Williams’s representatives announced that the former talk-show host had been diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Though Williams seemed to be doing okay — last month, while speaking with the Daily Mail about Diddy’s indictment, she said she was “doing good” following her diagnosis — a letter her guardian Sabrina Morrissey reportedly wrote to a judge earlier this month suggests otherwise, claiming early-onset dementia has left Williams “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”

Morrissey shared the update with a judge as part of her lawsuit against A&E Networks, which she claims exploited Williams in her condition while it shot its Lifetime documentary series, Where Is Wendy Williams?, which came out in February. Morrissey attempted to block A&E from releasing the series and is now seeking compensation, arguing its producers made millions of dollars off of Williams’s vulnerable state while the subject herself was only paid $82,000.

In the memo, which Morrissey’s attorney reportedly shared with the judge earlier in November, she requested that “sensitive information” about Williams’s “health, familial relationships, and finances” be redacted, suggesting that the entire record be sealed to “protect the incapacitated person’s privacy and dignity.”

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