Wendy Williams' guardian has shared a heartbreaking update about the TV host's "tragic" dementia battle.
Earlier this year, it was reported that the former host of The Wendy Williams Show - which ran from 2008 to 2022 - was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.
A statement released by the 60-year-old's team revealed that she underwent a battery of medical tests in 2023 after her memory started to fail and she began to "lose words," "act erratically" and had "difficulty understanding financial transactions".
Medics concluded that Williams' struggles were due to Aphasia, a disorder that affects communication, including speech, writing, and the ability to understand language, as well as Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a group of disorders that occur when nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain are lost.
It can impact behavior, personality, language, and movement, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
This week, the US Sun reported brand-new court documents filed by the talk show host’s legal guardian Sabrina Morrissey.
Morrissey detailed the severity of Williams' health condition, describing the star as "an acclaimed entertainer who, tragically, has been afflicted by early-onset dementia and, as a result, has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated".
Per the publication, the legal guardian’s attorneys reiterated Morrissey’s role in overseeing Williams’ finances and affairs.
"In January 2022, after becoming aware of a pattern of disturbing events concerning [Wendy's] welfare and finances, Wells Fargo took the highly unusual step of initiating a guardianship proceeding on its own initiative in the Supreme Court of New York, New York County (the 'Guardianship Proceeding'), to seek the court appointment of an independent guardian for [Wendy's] financial affairs," it states.
The legal team also requested that Williams' “health, familial relationships, and finances” be redacted by the court to protect the TV personality's privacy.
"We respectfully request that the Court grant Plaintiff’s motion for limited redactions to protect non-public information from the Guardianship Proceeding that has been placed under seal by the court overseeing that proceeding," the papers added.
This development comes amid ongoing legal battles over the Where is Wendy Williams? documentary produced by Lifetime, which offered a candid and concerning look at the star's declining health and struggles with alcoholism.
Back in February, Williams' guardian tried to stop the company from releasing the documentary with a restraining order, but it was quickly overturned by a judge.
The TV host's guardian then filed a lawsuit against Lifetime and the production companies just days before the docuseries was released, but per a court filing, the guardian "never served the Original Complaint".
On September 16, 2024, the guardian filed an amended complaint, serving it to all defendants, including A&E Television Networks, Entertainment One Reality Productions, Lifetime Entertainment Services, Creature Films, and director Mark Ford.
The case was subsequently moved to federal court from New York Supreme Court in October. Since then, the defendants have filed countersuits against Williams' guardian.