Former talk show host Wendy Williams “is permanently disabled and legally unable to work”

Wendy Williams is now “permanently disabled” because of her fight with dementia.

In 2023, the 60-year-old talk show host was diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Now, Wendy’s court-appointed guardian has said that the dementia has gotten worse, leaving her “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and legally incapacitated.”

Wendy’s guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey, says in new papers obtained by PEOPLE that FTD is a progressive disease, which means that there is no cure and the symptoms only get worse over time.

Sabrina has been Wendy’s guardian since April 2022. She said these things during a disagreement over the release of the documentary series “Where Is Wendy Williams?,” which is about the TV star’s guardianship and her health problems.

Sabrina said Wendy was “clearly incapable of consenting to being filmed” for the docuseries and was in a “highly vulnerable” state at the moment.

The senior producers of “Where Is Wendy Williams?,” on the other hand, have defended their documentary project in the past when it was criticized.

Erica said the docuseries would “give light” to the “truth of Wendy’s life.”

Erica told Extra, “It was important for us to be able to show what Wendy’s life was really like while she was in this care.”

“She was alone in that apartment and obviously drinking a lot, which made us worry…” We were very worried about her because she was living alone, which is one reason we stayed and kept pushing… It scares me to think about what would happen if we weren’t there sometimes.

Mark also said, “At one point, we were more worried about what would happen to her if we stopped filming than if we kept going.”