WENDY Williams’ guardian has claimed the former daytime talk show host doesn’t realize she has dementia and insisted a new mental evaluation will take months.
Wendy’s guardian Sabrina Morrissey made the shocking new allegations in court documents related to her lawsuit against Lifetime for their scathing 2024 documentary, Where Is Wendy Williams?
In the filing, the guardian asked for a motion to stay, or temporarily pause, the lawsuit she filed against Lifetime for the documentary after the star insisted in recent interviews that the suit was “blood money,” and she didn’t want it pursued.
In various recent interviews, Wendy insisted she does not have frontotemporal dementia, and has said numerous times she is not in cognitive decline.
“The Guardian—who acts solely for the benefit of W.W.H. [Wendy Williams Hunter] and her estate—takes these statements seriously, but also recognizes that anosognosia (an inability to perceive one’s own cognitive impairment) is a common symptom of FTD,” the guardian’s filing stated.
“Given the questions that have been raised and the misrepresentations that have been made in the press following W.W.H.’s recent statements, the Guardian now seeks a short stay of discovery so that a highly qualified expert can perform a renewed medical evaluation of W.W.H. to supplement the extensive medical evaluations and diagnoses that W.W.H. has already received and to provide professional medical guidance on whether and how W.W.H. can participate in this case (including in discovery).”
Sabrina, once again, cast doubt on the new evaluation changing Wendy’s diagnosis.
“In the unlikely event the new medical examination concludes that, contrary to her prior formal diagnoses, W.W.H. is presently capable of directing her own legal affairs, the Guardian would have no reason to continue this action on her behalf.”
The guardian claimed that should the evaluation stand, she will proceed with the Lifetime lawsuit to “fulfill her fiduciary obligation to pursue a substantial financial recovery for W.W.H. that will help pay for her long-term care.”
The guardian’s filing then drops a bomb, disclosing that the evaluation will take months, not days as another news outlet previously reported.
“The requested stay will be limited in duration—the Guardian understands that it will likely take a few months, at most, to complete the medical evaluation—and will not unduly prejudice any party,” the guardian’s filing continued.
“To the contrary, it will provide the Court and the parties with a renewed, medically informed basis for determining whether this litigation should proceed and under whose direction, and will provide the public with a greater understanding of the nature of the claims and defenses at issue in this litigation.
“For these reasons, as set forth more fully below, the Guardian respectfully requests that the Court stay discovery pending the results of W.W.H.’s supplemental medical reevaluation.”
Elsewhere in the motion, the guardian gets more specific, claiming the evaluation will take between two and three months.
The filing then detailed how Wendy got to where she is today, in a senior living facility on a locked floor, which the TV star has called a “luxury prison.”
The filing references The U.S. Sun’s exclusive report that Wendy was diagnosed with Alcohol Related Brain Damage, that she was hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation, how she lost her eponymous The Wendy Williams Show, and her disturbing interviews in the aftermath.
Sabrina then alleged again that Lifetime took advantage of Wendy’s decline.
Meanwhile, Lifetime has claimed that the guardian is angry about how she herself was portrayed in the docuseries as the true basis for her filing.
In the filing, the guardian further claimed: “It bears re-emphasising that the Guardian, as W.W.H.’s fiduciary, has no personal stake in the outcome of this litigation and is solely focused on protecting the financial and personal well-being of W.W.H.”
Interestingly, however, it does seem that public pressure has made Wendy’s re-evaluation all the more important to the guardian, who went onto say that the public has somewhat of a right to know, despite her constant reminders that everything in Wendy’s guardianship case is sealed.
The filing said: “Furthermore, W.W.H. has recently been making statements in the media, and they have been widely reported.
“This has created somewhat of a media storm and public ‘debate’ about whether W.W.H. is incapacitated and whether she requires the care of a residential long-term care facility, a controversy whose flames are fanned almost daily in the tabloid media.
Wendy Williams Alcohol-Related Brain Damage, Aphasia & Frontotemporal Dementia Diagnoses
By The U.S. Sun’s Senior Reporter Jessica Finn, who has reported on Wendy Williams for the past seven years.
As The U.S. Sun exclusively reported, Wendy Williams was diagnosed with alcohol-related brain damage in 2019 during a rehab stint in Florida.
An insider explained that a brain scan was done as part of Wendy’s rehab stay in Delray Beach.
A neurologist sat down with the star, her son, and her then-husband, Kevin Hunter Sr.
“The doctor explained to them that Wendy was suffering from alcohol-related brain damage.
“They told her that her alcohol abuse had done permanent damage to the layers in her brain,” the insider said.
“She was warned then and there that if she continued to drink, the damage would only get worse.”
In that meeting, they gave Wendy a devastating prognosis.
The doctors at the rehab foretold of the eventual decline of Wendy’s cognitive abilities, which have become apparent to those who have come in contact with the star in recent years.
“They told her that if she kept drinking she would continue to grow more forgetful, that she wouldn’t remember people’s names, and eventually, she could forget who people even were,” the source said.
After a comment call was sent to Wendy’s team, they released a statement saying Wendy had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia in 2023.
“The decision to share this news was difficult and made after careful consideration, not only to advocate for understanding and compassion for Wendy, but to raise awareness about aphasia and frontotemporal dementia and support the thousands of others facing similar circumstances,” the statement read.
“The public thus has an interest in receiving an answer to the questions that have been raised by the media in response to W.W.H.’s statements, and a medical evaluation confirming W.W.H.’s incapacity—or contradicting it—will assist in answering the public’s expressed concern about what is best for W.W.H. in connection with this litigation,” her filing concluded.
Over the weekend, as the battle over the star’s guardianship rages on, Sabrina allowed Wendy permission to visit her father in Miami for his 94th birthday celebrations.
LUXURY PRISON
As The U.S. Sun previously revealed, Wendy has been living in a studio apartment in an upscale New York City senior facility’s memory care unit for the past six months.
The studio in a Manhattan high-rise goes for $13,000 a month plus an additional $20,000 to $40,000 on top of her rent for her stay in the memory care unit specifically.
The U.S. Sun has chosen not to name the facility for privacy reasons.
The former The Wendy Williams Show host has said in recent interviews that the floor she is living in is locked and she is not allowed to leave.
Fellow residents in Wendy’s unit are seniors with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
The U.S. Sun previously exclusively reported that Wendy’s guardianship attorney filed a petition last week that may free the star from her guardianship.
The guardianship was put in place in 2022 after Wells Fargo bank froze her accounts, claiming she was ” a victim of undue influence and financial exploitation.”
She recently claimed her son Kevin Jr. was responsible for the misuse of her funds.
“He overstepped his boundaries, and he was inappropriately using my money without telling me crap about it, like, is he stealing from me?” she said in a new documentary.
