As Wendy Williams fights end her court-appointed guardianship, a neurologist has determined she does not have frontotemporal dementia (FTD), according to a new report.
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, TMZ published an article saying Williams recently underwent a “battery of tests” from an unidentified “top neurologist,” who determined she does not have the condition that led to her guardianship.
The outlet said the neurologist handed the test results over to the former talk show host’s legal team late last month, and the documents will be presented to a judge in the next two weeks.
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If the judge refuses to end the guardianship, Williams’ attorney Joe Tacopina plans to ask for a jury trial to determine the former talk show host’s fate, TMZ reported.
Williams, 61, was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023, her caregivers said. They publicly disclosed the diagnosis on Feb. 22, 2024, two days before Lifetime aired a documentary series about Williams’ life and health struggles titled Where is Wendy Williams?
Williams underwent a second round of neurological tests and scans in August of this year, and was again diagnosed with FTD, according to legal documents obtained by People magazine.
In November 2024, attorneys for Williams’ guardian Sabrina Morrissey filed court papers saying the former TV host was “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
Williams’ family responded by saying she was doing better than the guardian would admit.
Earlier this year, Williams did a round of high-profile interviews on The View, TMZ, Don Lemon’s YouTube Show, and “The Breakfast Club,” and disputed claims that she was “incapacitated.”
Williams said she was being treated like a prisoner and confined to her floor in an assisted living building in New York City. She said she was not allowed to go outside without prior authorization.
In February, she appeared in the documentary TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy and said: “I want my rights back, I want my freedom back!”
She revealed her son Kevin Hunter Jr.’s spending prompted Wells Fargo to go to the courts, triggering the guardianship ordeal.
“He overstepped his boundaries and he was inappropriately using my money without telling me crap about it,” Williams said in the film.
In April, Tacopina told TMZ he was preparing to go to war over Williams’ guardianship.
“The end goal is to get her out of that draconian institution she’s in, she doesn’t belong in, because she’s not incapacitated in any way,” he said. “We could go as far as doing something called an Article 78, which is actually suing the judge in a Supreme Court in New York State. So, we have things to do and we’ll be doing them.”
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