Wendy Williams‘ health has taken a turn for the worse amid her battle with dementia and aphasia.
The former “Wendy Williams Show” host, 60, has become “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated,” attorneys for Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, revealed in a memo filed in court earlier this month, according to court documents obtained by USA TODAY on Tuesday.
Morrissey has been pursuing legal action against A&E Television Networks, Lifetime Entertainment Services, and others involved in releasing “Where is Wendy Williams?,” a docuseries on Williams’ abrupt exit from public life released in February.
Williams is an “acclaimed entertainer who, tragically, has been afflicted by early-onset dementia,” the Nov. 12 letter reads. In an amended September complaint, Morrissey accused the defendants of taking “advantage of (Williams) in the cruelest, most obscene way possible for their own financial gain.”
In the memo, Morrissey’s attorneys also requested that Williams’ personal information be removed from the defense’s portion of a joint status letter.
The details pertain to a guardianship proceeding that Williams’ bank, Wells Fargo, initiated in January 2022 to help protect the TV personality’s finances. The filing for that proceeding was later placed under seal.
“The proposed redactions are very narrowly drawn and do not undermine the public’s ability to understand the core facts and legal arguments at issue in this litigation or to otherwise monitor the federal courts’ execution of their judicial function,” Morrissey’s attorneys argue.
