Wendy Williams' Guardian Accused of Isolating Her Amid Claims She's 'Permanently Incapacitated'
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The new report arrives after it's said that the former 'The Wendy Williams Show' host has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated' amid her aphasia and dementia battle.

AceShowbiz - The legal battle surrounding Wendy Williams is yet to be over amid her deteriorating health condition. In a new lawsuit, producers of Lifetime's docuseries "Where Is Wendy Williams?" sued the former daytime TV host's guardian Sabrina Morrisey.

In a lawsuit against Sabrina, Lifetime, A&E and Entertainment One, Creature Film as well as its company president Mark Ford's attorneys claimed that Sabrina tried to stop the docuseries from being released in February with a restraining order filed ahead of its premiere. "[The guardianship] isolated [Wendy] from her family, left her largely alone and unattended in her apartment, exacerbated her self-destructive behavior and mental decline, and failed to prevent her use and/or abuse of alcohol," the suit alleged.

The producers added that Sabrina wanted to dismiss the documentary because it made her look bad. "Thus, it appears that Morrisey is misusing her position as a guardian of [Wendy] to silence criticism of her controversial and failed administration of [Wendy's] guardianship," read the lawsuit.

Not stopping there, Lifetime insisted that Wendy's family "also saw the Documentary before it aired" and "approved its content and supported its release." Some of the family members also gave press interviews to promote the project.

They accused Sabrina of trying to "exceed the scope of her judicial authority over" Wendy, "excuse her own failure to protect" the popular TV personality and "supplant [Wendy's] wishes with her own." According to the producers, Sabrina denied "perhaps one of [Wendy's] last chances to exercise her autonomy and honestly reach her fans in exactly the frank and unfiltered manner that was the hallmark of her career."

The lawsuit additionally denied that it only paid the "The Wendy Williams Show" host $82,000 for her appearance on "Where Is Wendy Williams?", saying that they paid Wendy "approximately $400,000 for her participation" via her company, The Wendy Experience, Inc. It also shut down claims that the documentary raked in "anywhere near 'millions' of dollars" in profits.

Meanwhile, a recent report revealed that Sabrina claimed in new court documents that Wendy "permanently incapacitated" from her "tragic" dementia battle. According to Sabrina, Wendy, "an acclaimed entertainer who, tragically, has been afflicted by early-onset dementia and, as a result, has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated."

The filing added, "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." The guardian additionally pleaded the court for certain portions of the case about Wendy's "health, familial relationships, and finances" to be redacted to protect her privacy.

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