Wendy Williams has been recorded in public for the first time, since recent claims surfaced saying she is “permanently incapacitated.”
The former talk show host was seen smiling in the backseat of an SUV on Dec. 15, after picking up an order from a seafood restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Blogger Antoine Edwards shared the video of Williams on Instagram and said she was accompanied by a relative.
Edwards captioned the post: “#WendyWilliams spotted outside popular Fort Lauderdale restaurant, Sista Sara’s Shonuff Oysters with her nephew Travis Finnie. It was recently reported Wendy was ‘permanently incapacitated’ following her dementia diagnosis. She looks GOOD.”
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The sighting comes after Williams’ court-appointed guardian Sabrina Morrissey filed court documents in November alleging that Williams is “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
Morrissey’s claims were made as part of a legal dispute with Lifetime over the network’s 2024 documentary Where is Wendy Williams?.
Earlier this month, however, Williams’ family denied the claims, saying the 60-year-old media personality is doing better than suggested.
Williams was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) back in 2023 after undergoing a round of medical tests at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, her caregivers announced earlier this year.
A year before her diagnosis, in 2022 she was placed under guardianship after Wells Fargo Bank filed a petition with a New York court amid concerns that the media mogul was the victim of financial exploitation.
Meanwhile, Morrissey has been in a legal battle over over Where is Wendy Williams? with Lifetime for several months. The guardian first filed a restraining order on Feb. 20 against Lifetime’s parent company, A&E Networks, to block the documentary’s release. But in the end, the suit was unsuccessful and the documentary premiered on Feb. 24.
Months later on Sept. 16, Morrissey filed an amended complaint which was served to all defendants, including A&E Television Networks, Entertainment One Reality Productions, Lifetime Entertainment Services, Creature Films, and director Mark Ford.
In response, Lifetime and other defendants, including Entertainment One and Creature Films, have filed counterclaims. The network has argued that Morrissey attempted to halt the documentary because it made her look bad.
Williams has largely remained out of the public eye since her talk show was officially canceled in June 2022. She had stepped away from hosting the program a year earlier due to ongoing health issues.
