Wendy Williams’ guardian is slamming Lifetime’s genitor institution for allegedly taking advantage of a “severely impaired person” and for reportedly paying nan erstwhile talk show big a measly $82,000 for their arguable documentary astir her.
On Monday, Sept. 16, William’s guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, filed a suit successful New York Supreme Court, 7 months aft nan Lifetime’s documentary “Where Is Wendy Williams?” premiered.
The title is against Lifetime’s genitor company, A&E Television Networks, Lifetime Entertainment Services, EOne Productions, Creature Films and its executive shaper Mark Ford.
In tribunal documents obtained by The Post, nan 75-page title alleges Williams was “highly susceptible and intelligibly incapable of consenting to being filmed, overmuch little humiliated and exploited.”
The documents besides declare that nan documentary’s “true intentions” were to represent Williams “in a highly demeaning and embarrassing manner.”
“Where Is Wendy Williams?” aired connected Feb. 24 and 25 aft Morrissey tried to halt nan premiere day successful court.
One segment successful the documentary showed Williams, 60, visiting her hometown of Asbury Park, NJ, and pointing retired her puerility street, only to beryllium told by a alien that it’s connected a different road.
Another segment showed a confused Williams yelling astatine her driver and erstwhile publicist to bargain vape pens. After they arrived astatine her accustomed fume shop, a disoriented Williams threw a tantrum.
Shortly earlier nan bid premiered, Williams’ family told People that nan erstwhile talk show big — who was placed nether financial guardianship successful May 2022 aft her bank, Wells Fargo, claimed she was “incapacitated” — is successful a attraction facility. Her loved ones besides claimed they tin only speak to her erstwhile she calls them.
“Of course, if we had known that Wendy had dementia going into it, nary 1 would’ve rolled a camera,” Ford told nan Hollywood Reporter astatine nan time.
The tribunal docs allege that Morrissey “immediately sought to protect and to sphere [Williams’] dignity. But [A&E] fought to move up … without a valid statement and released without [Morrissey’s] consent.”
Williams, who hosted “The Wendy Williams Show” from 2008 to 2022, has been surviving nether a ineligible court-ordered guardianship since May 2022. It oversees her finances and health.
In February 2023, Williams’ squad revealed that she had been diagnosed nan erstwhile twelvemonth pinch superior aggressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.
Aphasia affects connection and connection abilities, while frontotemporal dementia impacts behaviour and cognitive functions.
Hollywood superstar Bruce Willis is also battling nan aforesaid aesculapian issues. He retired from acting successful 2022 owed to his aphasia and was diagnosed pinch FTD successful 2023.
Williams’ attraction squad released a connection successful February 2024 explaining, “As Wendy’s fans are aware, successful nan past she has been unfastened pinch nan nationalist astir her aesculapian struggles pinch Graves’ Disease and Lymphedema arsenic good arsenic different important challenges related to her health.”
The connection continued, “Over nan past fewer years, questions person been raised astatine times astir Wendy’s expertise to process accusation and galore person speculated astir Wendy’s condition, peculiarly erstwhile she began to suffer words, enactment erratically astatine times and person trouble knowing financial transactions.”
In nan filing dated September 16, Morrissey and civilian authorities litigator Roberta Kaplan declare nan web and defendants took advantage of Williams and should salary her for her aesculapian attraction and supervision for nan remainder of her life.
The title alleges that nan documentary engaged successful “vicious exploitation” of Williams, adding, “By willfully taking advantage of a severely impaired, incapacitated person, Defendants person made millions connected [Williams’] back, while [Williams] has received a paltry $82,000.”
The title said that this lawsuit came from “the brutally calculated, deliberate actions of powerful and cravenly opportunistic media companies moving together pinch a shaper to knowingly utilization [Williams], an acclaimed African-American entertainer who, tragically, suffers from dementia and, arsenic a result, has go cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and legally incapacitated.”
It further claims that nan web was “eager to sensationalize and profit” from Williams’ “cognitive and beingness decline” and “took advantage of” nan erstwhile talk show big “in nan cruelest, astir obscene measurement imaginable for their ain financial gain, successful a mode that genuinely shocks nan conscience.”
The Post reached retired to A&E for comment.
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