Wendy Williams’ Guardian reveals a shocking health update

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Wendy Williams’ health has been in decline for a few years, but the latest update from her guardian has shocked.

The 60-year-old former talk show host “suffers from early-onset dementia and as a result has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated,” Williams’ legal team and guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, said in court documents obtained by The American Sun.

Williams’ health update comes from legal paperwork filed by Morrissey on Nov. 12 as part of an ongoing legal battle with Lifetime over their Where is Wendy Williams? documentary.

Morrissey filed a restraining order against the network on February 20, four days before the premiere of the documentary in an attempt to prevent its release. The request was denied by a judge who said that stopping the film was an “impermissible prior restraint on speech that violates the First Amendment of the Constitution.”

Williams’ team released a statement earlier this year about her health and her diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. The statement read: “Aphasia, a condition that affects language and communication skills, and frontotemporal dementia, a progressive disorder that affects behavior and cognitive functions, have already presented significant obstacles in Wendy’s life.”

The Think like a man the actress stepped out of the limelight after ending her talk show, Wendy Williams Exhibition in 2021 and was placed under guardianship in 2022.

Williams was last seen in August, marking the first time she had been photographed in public since her legal and health battles came to light. She was spotted shopping at a holistic wellness store in Newark, New Jersey, according to Page sixwith her son, Kevin Hunter. A store employee revealed that the former producer appeared “sharp, upbeat and alert” during his visit to the store.