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Wendy Williams’ representatives want Lifetime to pay her. The disappearance of Wendy Williams has led to much controversy. So why do her representatives believe she is entitled to compensation?

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Wendy Williams is an American former broadcaster, media personality, and writer who is best known for her talk show, The Wendy Williams Show. The series aired from 2008-2021.

The 60-year-old has been married twice. First, she was married to Bert Birigorie for a short period, 1994-1995. Then, she was married to her most recent husband for quite some time. This was Kevin Hunter, a TV producer, and they were married from 1999-2020. The two have a son together, Kevin Hunter Jr.

The former broadcaster disappeared from the media world which raised some questions. It was revealed that she retired in 2023 due to her diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

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The guardian for Wendy Williams has filed an amended lawsuit against A+E Networks and eOne over the Lifetime documentary reality project Where Is Wendy Williams? that aired in February, claiming that the TV personality was exploited in her participation and paid just $82,000 for the project.

The guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, also claimed that Williams’ signature on her contract with eOne to produce the series “does not appear to be genuine” and there is “no evidence” that she signed the agreement on January 25, 2023.

Williams, the lawsuit stated, “was incapacitated and unable to consent at the time the Contract or its amendments were executed, even if she had signed it (which she did not).”

Her representatives disclosed earlier this year that she has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Williams had participated in the documentary and served as executive producer.

Read the amended Wendy Williams lawsuit.

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Wendy Williams’ guardian has filed an amended complaint over Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams? doc, claiming the two-part series was made “without a valid contract” while Williams was “highly vulnerable and clearly incapable of consenting to being filmed, much less humiliated and exploited.”

It accuses the defendants — which include Lifetime and its parent company, A&e Network — of “willfully taking advantage of a severely impaired, incapacitated person” and making “millions” from the docuseries. Meanwhile, the suit claims Williams “received a paltry $82,000.”

Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, is demanding that all the...

Friends and family of Wendy Williams were preparing to throw her a huge party for her 60th birthday today. Unfortunately, they are still not able to get in touch with the former talk show host, nor do they know where she is located. A source opened up about how the family is dealing with the sad day.

Wendy Williams Won’t Get To See Her Family For Her Bday

Wendy Williams’ birthday is July 18. This year, she’s hitting a big milestone – her 60th birthday. Of course, Wendy’s family won’t be able to spend the day with her this year.

A source told In Touch Weekly that they are heartbroken over it. “It’s all very sad that no one can reach her to wish her a happy birthday,” they said. “Wendy loved parties. Her birthday was a big deal for her!”

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Wendy Williams’ best friend Regina Schell has come forward to talk about the former daytime talk show host’s isolation. Regina says that her friend was forced into silence and many of her close family and friends have no idea what’s going on with her. Continue reading to see what Wendy’s friend had to say.

Has Wendy Williams Been Silenced?

Regina and Wendy have been friends for 44 years. She also lived with Wendy Williams during the summer of 2022 to help the star with various things. Now, she has no idea what’s going on with her lifelong friend.

“I want people to know that Wendy is a real person, and this is not some karma is a b***h thing,” Regina said of her friend. “Talking is Wendy’s life, her whole claim to fame is talking, and I don’t think she would be this quiet unless...

During the #MeToo movement in 2017, Brie Miranda Bryant and her team at A+E Networks were tasked with making an hour-long roundtable documentary special about the awareness campaign.

As senior VP of Lifetime original programming, Bryant was told to make sure that the doc “echoed after the hour was done.”

“It was such a conundrum,” she says now. “I just thought… how?” So she called former Bunim-Murray Prods. CEO Gil Goldschein and asked him to pitch her a doc he thought she would never buy. That pitch turned out to be “Surviving R. Kelly.” The roundtable was canceled.

“Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired in January 2019, put Kelly’s victims on camera to detail the sexual abuse they claimed they endured at the hands of the singer. The original six-hour docuseries went on to win a Peabody and, ultimately, led to Kelly’s 30-year prison sentence.

The series, which snagged more than 26 million viewers,...

The person sitting on a bed and being interviewed for a documentary is clearly in distress, tears welling.

“Can we take a break for a second?” Delaney Colaio, 18, asks the co-directors of We Go Higher, a documentary about the life experiences of “9/11 Kids,” people with parents murdered in the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Someone offers water, but no break is given to Colaio. The directors, the award-winning Sara Hirsh Bordo and her frequent collaborator Michael Campo, resume firing questions about self-harm, Colaio’s relationship with his mother, and about his father, killed when Colaio was a toddler. During the two-hour-plus session, filmed in August 2017, and the three-hour session the night before, Bordo and Campo also grill Colaio on why he doesn’t want to see the terrorists face the death penalty. Amid all this, Colaio, brown eyes bleary and pained, puts his face in his hands and says he’s had enough,...

Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams? docuseries shone a spotlight on court-appointed guardians, and recently, Sabrina Morrissey sold the former talk show host’s apartment in New York City. Read on to find out more.

Wendy Williams Moved Out Of Her Apartment

When the famous talk show host was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia, she was moved to a care facility. On the docuseries by Lifetime, fans saw a barely recognizable woman from the one that sent her sparkling personality to millions of TVs. Scared, confused, and sad, there were some concerns about the court-appointed guardian.

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The Where Is Wendy Williams? series almost didn’t happen because the guardian wanted a court to stop it. After all, it showed her in a bad light, she believed. Execs intended to air it anyway, and the show went ahead. And since then, her guardian has popped up in...

Producers Mark Ford and Erica Hanson opened up about the explosive docuseries, Where Is Wendy Williams, at a recent red carpet event. The two producers said that what viewers saw in the series was not the end of the story. They also shared insight into what the documentary meant to Wendy Williams. Keep reading to see what they revealed.

Where Is Wendy Williams Was Tough To Watch

The four-and-a-half-hour series documents the events that led up to Wendy Williams being placed under court-ordered guardianship in 2022. Initially, the producers set out to document Wendy’s comeback after the end of her long-running show, The Wendy Williams Show.

In addition to documenting what led to her guardianship, the documentary also put a spotlight on the former daytime talk show host’s personal struggles. She is shown actively battling her alcohol addiction and dealing with health struggles related to her Graves disease and lymphedema.

Deadline on Monday launched its streaming site for Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted, showing off the full panels of all 20 shows that participated in Saturday’s all-day showcase of the year’s best in nonfiction, unscripted and late-night programming as Emmy season ramps up.

Click here for the streaming site.

This year’s panel lineup featured a load of shows that have been generating zeitgeist-y buzz, including Gypsy Rose Blanchard joining the conversation with the EPs for The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the filmmakers behind Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, the producers behind this year’s Oscars, and the creatives behind late-night staples Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Daily Show.

The documentary field was also well-repped, featuring filmmakers Ron Howard (Jim Henson Idea Man) Roger Ross Williams (The Super Models), Morgan Neville (Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces) Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss (Girls State...

The crew of Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams? set out to document the TV personality’s comeback after losing her talk show and disappearing from the public eye.

The results of the series actually are quite different. Instead of chronicling Williams as she reclaimed her legacy, the team pulled back the curtain on what had been going on in Williams’ life since she was placed under financial guardianship.

“It really wasn’t until we got into filming and saw the reality of the situation that we were aware that there was something deeper and, ultimately, disturbing, going on in Wendy’s life,” executive producer Mark Ford said during the series’ panel at Deadline’s Contenders TV: Documentary + Unscripted event.

Related: A+E Networks Argued That Wendy Williams’ Guardian Sought To “Unconstitutionally Silence” Criticism Via Effort To Halt Airing Of Documentary

Since filming, Williams has been receiving treatment for “cognitive issues” at a wellness center,...

This year’s Emmy race features some of the most explosive nonfiction content in recent years: docuseries on the fate of a beloved talk show host, a vulnerable young woman victimized in a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, the scandal involving Nickelodeon kids shows, and a revealing look inside one of professional sports’ greatest dynasties.

Deadline’s Contenders TV: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event — your indispensable guide to TV awards season — goes in depth on all of it Saturday in a showcase that kicks off at 9 a.m. Pt.

Click here to register and watch the livestream.

Among the panelists joining today are key talent behind Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams?, Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, and The Dynasty: New England Patriots from Apple TV+. Gypsy Rose Blanchard herself joins us to talk about telling her shocking story in Lifetime’s The Prison...

The Lifetime docuseries “Where Is Wendy Williams?” was originally supposed to be a chronicle of the popular talk show host’s return to the A-list after numerous personal struggles and health crises. But as executive producer Mark Ford tells Gold Derby, the final product was much different. “I think it’s safe to say that no one who joined the team on this project expected it to be the project that it turned out to be,” declares Ford.

What it turned out to be was a look at how Williams’s mental health drastically declined during the film of the series; she was ultimately diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia and is currently under the control of a court-ordered guardianship. The filmmakers realized early on that something was very wrong with Williams, leading to debates over exactly what should be filmed and what should make it to air. “At the time we began filming,...

Kevin Hunter, the ex-husband of Wendy Williams is chasing after money and he’s vocal about his distrust of the legal guardian, Sabrina Morrissey. He’s trying to get the severance payments that stopped in 2022. The guardian feels that he’s been overpaid, and he must refund some of it. She also demanded a gag order on the talk show host’s ex-husband.

Kevin Hunter Fights, Claims Hardships

Apart from clashing with the court-appointed guardian, Wendy Williams’ ex also filed a $10 million lawsuit. When The Wendy Williams Show ended, he felt that he was wrongfully terminated. He pointed out that both he and Wendy were initially contracted to do a show. And, that later became the main income for his wife.

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Kevin Hunter seems determined to get his hands on some of the money. The docuseries by Lifetime called Where is Wendy Williams? also made a lot of fans wonder.

Since O.J. Simpson passed away on April 10, 2024, many are revisiting his old interviews. One that caught a lot of attention was the interview he did with famous talk show hostess, Wendy Williams.

Wendy Williams went on to experience her own controversies. But even so, she handled her interview with O.J. Simpson in a very intriguing way that has the internet buzzing.

Keep reading to get the scoop and see what Redditors had to say about the unearthed video.

Wendy Williams Sat Down With O.J. Simpson 23 Years Ago

Although Wendy Williams has been going through her own share of hardships lately, she still maintains her loyal fans who loved and adored her show.

Even after Where Is Wendy Williams? premiered, her fans remembered her for the hard-hitting interviewer she once was. Now, an old interview she did with O.J. Simpson is making its rounds online.

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Nicole Brown Simpson will be getting the docuseries treatment at Lifetime.

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Brown Simpson — who was famously found murdered in 1994 outside her Brentwood condominium, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, and whose late ex-husband, O.J. Simpson, was accused and ultimately acquitted of the murder charges — is the subject of what is planned to be a two-night event titled The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.

News of the doc comes after the announcement that O.J. Simpson died one day prior at age 76 from cancer. His family, who announced his death on social media April 11, said the football player turned actor, who then became best known for the high-profile 1994-95 murder trial, was surrounded by his children and grandchildren at the time of his death.

The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson has been in the works for more than a year and,...

A+E Networks fought for the docuseries called Where Is Wendy Williams? to air and they cited Britney Spears’ conservatorship as a good reason why it should. When Sabrina Morrissey, the guardian of the former talk show host tried to prevent Lifetime from airing it, she lost, and it premiered as planned. In fact, the ratings from the show that aired on February 24 and 25 were excellent.

Where Is Wendy Williams? Aired But It Was Disturbing

An initial court order seemed promising for the guardian but it was overturned. Many people believed that she only decided against it because it showed her in a poor light. However, the court-appointed guardian also felt that A & E Networks only showed the bad side of the former star’s life, making it a “cruel’ documentary on Lifetime.

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Wendy Williams’ fans were disturbed when they watched the show. Regina Hall...

Newly unsealed documents shed light on A+E Networks’ successful appeal of a last-minute effort to halt the airing of the Lifetime documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? last month.

A temporary guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, had sought a court order to stop the project, arguing in a lawsuit filed last month that the documentary was a “blatant exploitation of a vulnerable woman with a serious medical condition,” and that the talk host had lacked mental capacity to enter a contract to do the show.

A New York judge initially granted the order to prevent the airing of Where Is Wendy Williams?, but that was quickly reversed on appeal.

In arguing against a temporary restraining order to stop the project, A+E Networks’ attorney Rachel Strom wrote that Morrissey’s effort was an unconstitutional prior restraint, and on a topic that was in the public interest.

“At a time when guardianship proceedings...

Wendy Williams’ court-appointed guardian tried to block the release of a Lifetime docuseries about the talk show host, telling a court last month that she was “horrified” by the depiction of Williams as a “drunkard” and a “laughingstock.”

The guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, obtained a temporary restraining order to keep the two-part series, entitled “Where is Wendy Williams?”, under wraps.

But A+E Networks, the parent company of Lifetime, and Entertainment One were quickly able to get that order overturned on Feb. 23, with an appellate judge ruling it an “impermissible prior restraint on speech” under the First Amendment. The show aired over the following weekend.

The battle between the guardian and the network has been reported previously. But more details became available Thursday, when a New York judge ordered most of the court record in the case unsealed.

Williams ended her 14-year run as a nationally syndicated talk show host two years ago,...

A temporary guardian argued in a lawsuit filed last month that Lifetime’s documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? was a “blatant exploitation of a vulnerable woman with a serious medical condition,” and that the talk host had lacked mental capacity to enter a contract to do the show, according to newly unsealed documents.

The guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, filed suit last month in New York Supreme Court seeking to stop the show before its debut on February 24-25. But an appellate judge vacated a lower court order, clearing the way for the the project to air. But is was only this week that Morrissey’s complaint and other court documents were unsealed.

Read the Wendy Williams complaint.

Williams’ representatives disclosed last month that she has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. She had participated in the documentary and served as executive producer.

In the complaint, Morrissey argued that...

Wendy Williams’ legal guardian claimed that the talk show host was unable to consent to her participation in Lifetimes’ Where Is Wendy Williams? documentary that aired last month, according to an unsealed lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone.

Sabrina Morrissey, acting as Williams’ guardian, filed the suit in February just days before the docuseries aired. Morrissey filed the suit, which was sealed until Thursday, in New York seeking to block the project’s release — though it aired as planned on Feb. 24 and 25.

In the complaint, Morrissey claimed that Williams, referred in the suit as W.

Lifetime’s two-night documentary special Where is Wendy Williams? has set a new ratings record for the network. The documentary averaged 1.2 million total viewers over the two nights in Nielsen Live+3, and 6.2 million total viewers across linear and digital platforms to date.

The network says Where is Wendy Williams? is Lifetime’s best new non-fiction performance in two years since the Janet Jackson documentary, with total viewers, W25-64 and A25-64, beating out January’s The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard which is now ranked No. 2 in L+Sd.

On premiere night on February 24, Where is Wendy Williams? was the No. 1 program across all of TV in total social interactions, according to Lifetime.

The full documentary will repeat starting tonight at 7pm Et/Pt and again on Saturday, March 2 at 1:30pm Et/Pt.

The documentary aired just days after Williams was diagnosed...

Lifetime is wading into the guardianship debate by greenlighting a fictional movie with the working title The Bad Guardian.

Following the headlines and debate surrounding the guardianships of Wendy Williams and Britney Spears, the network has ordered a movie about a court-appointed guardianship gone wrong.

The Bad Guardian will star Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) and La La Anthony (La La’s Full Court Life) and “is inspired by countless true stories of individuals who have been put in the care of a guardian by the courts and raises the question — are these caretakers helpful or harmful?”

The official (and a bit spoiler-filled) description: The Bad Guardian is “about one woman’s fight to save her father from the clutches of a corrupt and greedy court-appointed guardian. When Leigh’s (Melissa Joan Hart) father Jason (Eric Pierpoint) suffers a fall while she’s out of town, the courts assign Jason a guardian,...

Bravo has unveiled a first look at the “Vanderpump Rules” spinoff series “The Valley,” premiering on March 19 after a new episode of “Vanderpump Rules.” In subsequent weeks, “The Valley” will air at the regular time of 9 p.m. Et and stream the following day on Peacock.

The official description for the spinoff explains that it “follows a group of close friends as they trade bottle service in West Hollywood for baby bottles in the Valley all while they navigate bustling businesses, rocky relationships and feisty friendships.”

The five couples featured this season include Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright, Kristen Doute and Luke Broderick, Danny and Nia Booko, Jesse and Michelle Lally, and Jason and Janet Caperna. Jasmine Goode and Zack Wickham join the series as friends.

Executive producers include Alex Baskin and Jeff Festa for 32 Flavors Entertainment; Aaron Rothman, Josh Halpert and Jessica Chesler for Haymaker East; and Barry Poznick...

Lifetime’s controversial Where Is Wendy Williams? documentary proved to be a big draw for the cable network.

The 4 1/2-hour documentary, which aired over two nights on Feb. 24 and 25, averaged 1.04 million same-day viewers, according to Nielsen. That’s more than triple the average primetime audience for Lifetime in the previous three weeks, which hovered a little above 300,000 viewers.

After three days of delayed viewing, the documentary grew to 1.2 million viewers, which Lifetime says is its biggest nonfiction debut since its Janet Jackson documentary two years ago.

Where Is Wendy Williams? also brought in more viewers than Lifetime’s January docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, which averaged 887,000 viewers over its six hours. Lifetime cited a three-day average of 1.1 million viewers for the latter show, a 24 percent lift from delayed viewing. (Nielsen ratings figures don’t include streaming.)

A few days before the documentary premiered, a press release from...

In the first episode of the four-part documentary, Where is Wendy Williams?, which aired on Lifetime Feb. 24 and 25, the former daytime talk show host makes a haunting observation about the state of her financial affairs.

“I have no money and I’m going to tell you something,” Wendy Williams states to the cameras, “if it happens to me, it could happen to you.”

According to journalist Diane Dimond, author of We’re Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong, who’s featured in the documentary, Williams is right. “It’s not just Wendy Williams and Britney Spears, there are 2 million people in guardianship or conservatorship right now in this country,” Dimond tells THR. “In the justice system, if somebody says you’re at risk and vulnerable and need protection, the court says, ‘Ok.’ There’s no due process in these courtrooms.”

Williams came under financial guardianship in May 2022 after Wells Fargo petitioned the courts,...

The Wendy Williams Show‘s co-executive producer is reflecting on working with her former talk show host following the news of her diagnosis being made public. Suzanne Bass says there were early signs pointing to what has now been publicly revealed to be primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia diagnosis (Ftd).

“You can go back and see the show, and there’s really long periods of quietness where she’s not speaking,” Bass told People, two days after a press release was sent out, claiming to be from her care team, announcing Williams’ diagnosis, which impacts language, communication behavior and cognitive function. “And you’re thinking, ‘What’s happening?’ There were early signs [of something wrong] where you’re grasping for words, having a hard time collecting your thoughts and remembering things. Maybe that’s what was happening back then.”

The Wendy Williams Show ran for 14 seasons from 2008 to 2022. The show relied on...

The producers behind the new Wendy Williams documentary said they wouldn’t have begun filming it if they knew about her mental health diagnosis ahead of time.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Where Is Wendy Williams? producers Mark Ford and Brie Miranda Bryant discussed the news last week that Williams had been diagnosed with new primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

“Of course, if we had known that Wendy had dementia going into it, no one would’ve rolled a camera,” Ford said Monday in the interview,...

A producer who worked on Lifetime‘s Where is Wendy Williams? documentary is speaking out.

The two-part project aired on Saturday (February 24) and Sunday (February 25), almost immediately following the Wendy Williams‘ aphasia and dementia diagnosis.

Ahead of the documentary’s premiere Wendy‘s guardian Sabrina Morrissey filed a lawsuit against the channel’s parent company A&e attempting to stop it from airing. The request was dismissed by a judge.

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, producer Mark Ford explained his team’s motivation behind filming and releasing Where is Wendy Williams?

Keep reading to find out more…

Mark explained the original concept of the film.

“It was supposed to be a documentary that would follow her journey back into her career doing a podcast. We thought it was a great idea, and we were hopeful that Wendy’s story would be redeeming and we’d be able to document this journey,...

“At a certain point,” says Where Is Wendy Williams? producer Mark Ford, “we were more worried about what would happen if we stopped filming than if we continued.”

So, for the better part of a year, his cameras kept rolling, documenting the increasingly fragile state that the former talk show host had found herself in, as she alternately craved family, her former TV platform and an excessive amount of alcohol, all while struggling to remain coherent. What ultimately came of that footage is a raw, devastating, four-plus hour documentary, which aired on Lifetime over two nights last weekend. Williams, her son, Kevin Hunter Jr., and her jeweler-turned-manager, William Selby, are all credited as executive producers.

Nevertheless, the eOne and Creature Films project asks more questions than it answers, including what, exactly, was going on with Williams, and why a court-ordered guardian has largely cut her off from her family. Though...

For those who missed the first airing of Where Is Wendy Williams? on Lifetime, you can now buy the documentary online.

Split into four episodes, the four-hour special is available to buy at Prime Video, Apple TV and other transactional streaming video-on-demand platforms.

Watch 'Where Is Wendy Williams?' on Prime Video

The documentary marks the first time that beloved TV host Wendy Williams has shared her story after her longtime daytime talk show was abruptly canceled in 2022. Before the Lifetime special aired on Feb. 24, Williams’ team announced that she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Williams said, “I want to say I have immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received after sharing my diagnosis of Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia (Ftd). Let me say, wow! Your response has been overwhelming. The messages shared with me have touched me,...

A former producer of The Wendy Williams Show says it is “impossible” for Wendy Williams to return to television. This comes on the heels of Williams’ longing to return to the medium as depicted in the Lifetime limited series Where Is Wendy Williams?

Wendy Williams’ ex-producer believes a TV return is out of the question

Wendy Williams’ ex-Wendy producer Suzanne Bass shared her thoughts regarding Williams’s possible television return to People. She said that William’s latest health diagnosis dashed any “hope” she had.

Williams’ PR team shared a statement on Feb. 22, 2024, that revealed the former talk show host was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (Ftd). Bass said this diagnosis makes returning to television “impossible” for her longtime friend.

“Since Wendy’s been off the air, there’s been a huge void in both daytime TV and pop culture,” Bass said. “I think there’s always...

The final episode of the four-part Lifetime documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? introduces a new character by way of former daytime talk show host Wendy Williams’ sister, Wanda, who, though initially hesitant, agreed to be a part of the film one year after production began.

“It has been a long journey in terms of the experience for our family and for Wendy,” Wanda says in the documentary. “I hope to come out of this letting people see the love that we have as a family together for each other as well as the love we have for Wendy, and to understand the journey we’ve been through that has not always been perfect. Everyone wanted the same thing, which is to see Wendy healthy and happy.”

Though Wanda doesn’t appear onscreen until part four of the documentary series, Wendy Williams, who is an executive producer of the project, makes...

Beloved TV and radio host Wendy Williams dropped out of the public eye after her daytime talk show was canceled in 2022 and ever since, fans have been wondering, “Where Is Wendy Williams?” That’s also the title of Lifetime’s new four-part docuseries, promising “unparalleled access granted by Wendy to film with her and her family for nearly two years” and ” a raw, honest and unfiltered reality of Wendy’s life after she was placed under financial guardianship.”

Ahead of the documentary’s release, Williams’ care team shared the news that the 59-year-old has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and dementia. “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 said.

Days before the documentary’s premiere date,...

Less than 72 hours before the premiere of Lifetime’s two-part docuseries “Where Is Wendy Williams?,” the former talk show host’s team announced that she has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (Ftd), the same disease that Bruce Willis has. Amid the news of Williams’ health crisis — which is immediately evident on the show— this docuseries feels invasive at best and predatory at worst.

“Where Is Wendy Williams?” is designed as a follow-up to her 2021 documentary “Wendy Williams: What A Mess,” which dove into Williams’ public divorce, apparent mental health crisis and other public mishaps. That same year, Williams also executive produced “Wendy Williams: The Movie,” a TV film starring Ciera Payton that chronicled the entertainment host’s personal life and career trajectory. What’s now clear is that “Where Is Wendy Williams?” is not a series about the next chapter of Williams’ life but instead an...

It doesn’t take long for viewers of Where is Wendy Williams? to see that the former radio and TV show host is currently in a fragile state. The four-part Lifetime documentary, which airs Feb. 24 and 25, begins in 2022 with Wendy Williams appearing to be back to her old self as she talks about making a comeback to television. But within minutes she’s in tears for reasons that aren’t immediately known to the audience, yet later come to light as details of her health and financial status unravel.

“Do you like being the center of attention and having people wonder?” a producer asks before Williams interjects. “I demand,” she says. “Six years old that’s all I wanted. The center of attention.”

“Well, you got it,” the producer states, to which Williams responds, “Of course, and I always will.”

Two days prior to the documentary airing, a press release...

Wendy Williams won’t be mounting a comeback, at least one person close to her feels.

With fans still processing the stunning reveal on Friday that Williams has been diagnosed with progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, the comments may dampen any faint hopes of a miracle.

Suzanne Bass, the co-executive producer of Williams’s show, spoke to People on Saturday about the seeming end of her TV career.

“Since Wendy’s been off the air, there’s been a huge void in both daytime TV and pop culture,” Bass said. “I think there’s always been a glimmer of hope for a comeback for her. But since this diagnosis, that seems impossible. It makes me very sad.”

Williams hosted her chat show from 2008 to 2022.

“I do know it takes time to diagnose conditions like this,” Bass continued. “I’m saddened by it all. Because people are constantly saying, ‘Wouldn’t...

Fans of “The Wendy Williams Experience” and “The Wendy Williams Show” will get to see Wendy Williams as her own Hot Topic in the highly anticipated documentary “Where is Wendy Williams?” airing Saturday, February 24 and Sunday, February 25 on Lifetime despite legal requests to halt the airing.

Earlier this week, Appellate Justice Peter Moulton granted Lifetime the right to air its documentary, stating it would be “impermissible prior restraint on speech that violates the First Amendment of the Constitution” after Sabrina Morrissey, “acting in her capacity as Temporary Guardian of W.W.H. [Wendy Williams Hunter]” filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court seeking injunctive relief, Deadline reported.

Following the court’s decision, Williams issued a statement about her health struggles, including the recent announcement that she had been diagnosed with Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia (Ftd), the same form of dementia Bruce Willis had been diagnosed with.

“I want to...

Fans know Wendy Williams for her authentic comments and outspoken nature on The Wendy Williams Show. She hosted the television series from 2008 to 2021, and fans have wondered what she’s up to since her show’s cancellation. Unfortunately, Williams faces unprecedented health issues that filmmakers explore in the two-part documentary Where Is Wendy Williams?. And her son, Kevin Hunter Jr., questions whether his mother is getting the care she needs, according to sources.

Wendy Williams’ son, Kevin Hunter Jr., is allegedly ‘questioning’ if his mother is getting the proper care Wendy Williams with her husband and son | Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/Getty Images

Where Is Wendy Williams? explores Wendy Williams’ life after the cancellation of The Wendy Williams Show, and viewers will see several prominent figures from her life give their opinions. Kevin Hunter Jr. is Williams’ only child, and the 23-year-old has managed to stay out of the spotlight.

Fans know The Wendy Williams Show star Wendy Williams for her hot takes and authentic personality that fans love. The reality talk show ran from 2008 and concluded in 2022, and fans have been curious about Williams’ whereabouts since the show ended. Now, viewers get an in-depth look into Williams’ life with the two-part documentary series, Where Is Wendy Williams? Here’s what to know about Williams’ wealth and why she claims she has “no money” now.

How did Wendy Williams lose her money? Wendy Williams | Peter Kramer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images

Wendy Williams earned over $50,000 per episode with The Wendy Williams Show and once had a net worth of around $20,000. However, reports now suggest Williams’ net worth is only $500,000. In the trailer for Where Is Wendy Williams?, the star claims she has “no money.”

So, what happened to Williams’ fortune? She doesn’t have access to her financial assets,...

Representatives for Wendy Williams have confirmed the former talk show host has frontotemporal dementia and aphasia. The news comes ahead of Lifetime’s two-night documentary event, Where Is Wendy Williams?

Wendy Williams is in a care facility, her family says Wendy Williams in February 2023 | Johnny Nunez/WireImage

In June 2021, Williams hosted her final episode of The Wendy Williams Show. The show ended its 13-season run a year later amid rumors and concern about Williams’ declining health. (Guest hosts had filled in for Williams for the final season.) Since then, the one-time DJ and daytime TV personality has largely been absent from the public eye.

In August 2022, a film crew started documenting Williams’ life after the end of her syndicated talk show. The resulting documentary, which premieres Feb. 24 on Lifetime, is a candid portrait of Williams as she struggles with alcohol addiction, memory loss, and other health issues.

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After nearly two years, Wendy Williams is back to tell you where she’s been. eOne, Creature Films, and Lifetime take audiences on an unfiltered and intimate look at the public fall of the former daytime talk show host following the end of “The Wendy Williams Show” in June 2022 and Williams’ journey since as she looks to reclaim her life and legacy following financial struggles, alcohol abuse, and shocking health diagnosis. The four-and-a-half-hour, two-night documentary event “Where Is Wendy Williams?” will debut on Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25 at 8 p.m. Et on Lifetime. You can watch Where Is Wendy Williams? and Lifetime with a 7-Day Free Trial of Philo. You can also watch with Directv Stream, Sling TV, or Hulu Live TV.

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Wendy Williams thanked fans for their support following Thursday’s announcement that she had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, publicly addressing the news for the first time.

“I want to say I have immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received after sharing my diagnosis of Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia (Ftd). Let me say, wow! Your response has been overwhelming,” Williams said in a statement to The Associated Press. “The messages shared with me have touched me, reminding me of the power of...

Wendy Williams is speaking out for the first time following her recent primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia diagnosis (Ftd).

A representative for the former talk show host shared a statement from Williams with The Hollywood Reporter Friday: “I want to say I have immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received after sharing my diagnosis of Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia (Ftd). Let me say, wow! Your response has been overwhelming. The messages shared with me have touched me, reminding me of the power of unity and the need for compassion.”

The statement continued, “I hope that others with Ftd may benefit from my story. I want to also thank the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration for their kind words of support and their extraordinary efforts to raise awareness of Ftd. I continue to need personal space and peace to thrive. Please just know that your positivity and encouragement are deeply appreciated.

Beloved talk show host Wendy Williams is speaking out following the recent announcement that she’s been diagnosed with dementia and aphasia.

“I want to say I have immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received after sharing my diagnosis of Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia (Ftd),” Williams said in a statement to People magazine. “Let me say, wow! Your response has been overwhelming. The messages shared with me have touched me, reminding me of the power of unity and the need for compassion.”

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Wendy Williams has issued a statement to thank fans for their well-wishes after the revelation that she has been diagnosed with dementia.

The statement comes prior to the airing of a Lifetime documentary about her health struggles.

“I want to say I have immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received after sharing my diagnosis of Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia (Ftd). Let me say, wow! Your response has been overwhelming,” Williams said in a statement released to The Associated Press through a representative for her care team. “The messages shared with me have touched me, reminding me of the power of unity and the need for compassion.”

The 59-year-old has been diagnosed with with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

It arrives after a New York judge ruled that Lifetime’s Where is Wendy Williams? documentary will air this weekend as scheduled. The documentary includes footage of...

Lifetime’s Wendy Williams documentary is still set to premiere this weekend.

On Thursday, a press release confirmed that Wendy, 59, has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams? documentary chronicling the former Wendy Williams Show host’s health struggles over the years is set to premiere on Saturday (February 24). However, Wendy‘s guardian Sabrina Morrissey filed a lawsuit against the channel’s parent company A&e attempting to halt the premiere, TMZ reports.

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On Friday (February 23), a judge ruled that Lifetime’s documentary will still air despite the lawsuit. A hearing is set to take place next week, per Us Weekly.

Where Is Wendy Williams? is a two-part film in which the talk show host will open up about her relationship with fame and family and address her struggles with money and alcohol amongst other things.

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Quick Answer: Where Is Wendy Williams? can currently be streamed online with a live TV streaming service, including DirecTV, Sling TV, and Hulu Live TV. The new two-part documentary will air live on Lifetime Feb. 24th and Feb. 25th, 8 p.m. Est/5 p.m. Pst

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This week, healthcare teams confirmed that Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

Lifetime’s documentary about Wendy Williams will air this Saturday and Sunday evening as planned, TVLine has confirmed, despite Williams’ guardian filing a lawsuit seeking injunctive relief.

The two-part Where Is Wendy Williams? arrives on the heels of the daytime-tv personality being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, as well as the language disorder aphasia.

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Per TMZ, Sabrina Morrissey on Thursday filed with the New York Supreme...

Two days before a major documentary chronicling Wendy Williams’ deteriorating mental state is scheduled to premiere on Lifetime, the beleaguered former talk show host’s court-appointed caregiver filed a lawsuit against Lifetime parent company A+E Networks.

Sabrina Morrissey filed the sealed lawsuit for injunctive relief on Thursday in New York County Supreme Court. The suit says that Morrissey — whose identity as the individual appointed by the court in 2022 to look after Williams had been unknown publicly and to Williams’ family — is “acting in her capacity as Temporary Guardian.”

The complaint, which sought a temporary restraining order, names A+E Networks, the parent company of Lifetime, and Entertainment One Reality Productions, which produced the four-and-a-half-hour documentary set to air over two nights, this coming Saturday and Sunday.

On Friday, Appellate Justice Peter H. Moulton vacated a temporary restraining order signed ex parte, ruling that such an order would be “impermissible prior...