BY: Denver Sean
Published 3 months ago
Wendy Williams may not have dementia after all.
According to reports, Wendy recently underwent tests that show she does NOT have frontotemporal dementia — the condition that got her placed under a guardianship and has had her living in a memory care facility for the past 3 years.
Wendy Williams does not have the medical condition a judge has used to justify keeping her in a highly restrictive guardianship for more than 3 years, according to a top neurologist.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Wendy recently completed a battery of tests in NYC, and the neurologist concluded she does not have frontotemporal dementia. The neurologist provided Wendy’s legal team with the results late last month.
The findings conflict with an earlier test when, according to Wendy’s guardian, she tested positive for the condition.
Frontotemporal dementia, according to multiple experts to whom we have spoken, never gets better — only worse. Yet Wendy has exhibited remarkable neurological resilience since she became clean and sober 3 years ago, although she is still locked in the guardianship.
We’re told Wendy’s legal team will file legal docs with the court in the next 2 weeks, paving the way for a hearing where they will ask the judge to terminate the guardianship. If the judge digs in and refuses to end the guardianship, powerhouse lawyer Joe Tacopina will then demand a jury trial and ask jurors to free Wendy.
Speaking of Tacopina, Wendy attended the wedding of Joe’s son, Chris, who married Emma White. BTW, Chris is about to get his second Stanley Cup ring … he’s the Data Analytics Manager for the Florida Panthers.
via: TMZ
What’s Going On With Wendy Williams’s Dementia Diagnosis?
A neurologist has reportedly determined that Wendy Williams does not have frontotemporal dementia. On Tuesday, TMZ reported that Williams, who was diagnosed with the brain disorder in 2024, received a “battery of tests” from an unnamed “top neurologist” in New York who concluded that the former talk-show host does not have the condition that’s kept her in a guardianship for years.
Williams has been living under a court-appointed guardianship since 2022, when her bank declared she was incapable of managing her own financial affairs and at risk of exploitation. In 2024, representatives for Williams announced that she had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, which the Mayo Clinic describes as “an umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain,” which are “associated with personality, behavior, and language.” The diagnosis, which Williams has consistently denied, is one of the reasons her guardianship has been upheld.
In August, People reported that Williams’s diagnosis had been upheld after a new round of evaluations that included a “significant number of tests (both medical and neuropsychological) and scans (including brain imaging).” At some point since then, TMZ claims, she was tested again, and her doctor provided her lawyers with her new results late last month. The outlet reported that her legal team plans to bring this new information to court within the next two weeks. They seem to hope this will pave the way for a hearing in which they can ask a judge to terminate Williams’s guardianship.
TMZ reported that, if a judge does not want to end the guardianship, powerhouse celebrity attorney Joe Tacopina — who has been speaking on Williams’s behalf lately — will ask for a jury trial. As The Cut reported last month, Tacopina does not officially represent Williams in her guardianship proceedings, and the court does not recognize him as her lawyer.
Over the past year, Williams has been vocal about wanting to be released from her guardianship. In a TMZ documentary released in February, she bemoaned living on the memory-care floor of an assisted-living facility; a few weeks later, she told Charlamagne tha God that she passed two different psychological evaluations at the hospital. While heading into a restaurant this summer during one of her rare outings, she asked a “Page Six” reporter, “Do I sound like I have dementia to you?” Most recently, she made several appearances during New York Fashion Week, where she told the paparazzi that she felt “like a zillion dollars.”
via: The Cut
Wendy Williams doesn’t have dementia, neurologist says: report
A neurologist now believes Wendy Williams doesn’t actually have frontotemporal dementia, a diagnosis that has put her under legal guardianship for more than two years, according to a new report.
The former talk show host reportedly underwent several medical tests, and the results did not match the diagnosis from 2023 when she tested positive for the disease, sources tell TMZ.
Her legal team received the results late last month, the outlet reported, and she’s expected to file court papers within the next two weeks requesting a hearing to end a guardianship she’s been under since 2022 due to the diagnosis.
If the judge insists on maintaining the guardianship order, attorney Joe Tacopina plans to request a jury trial.
Last year, Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, stated in a filing that Williams was considered “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
Williams has spoken out against the guardianship, saying it keeps her from moving freely and makes her feel like she’s being kept “in a prison.”
“I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s,” Williams told “The Breakfast Club” in January of the care facility where she lives. “I have breakfast, lunch and dinner right here on the bed. I watch TV, I listen to radio, I look out the window, I talk on the phone.”
Williams described the guardianship system as “broken” and revealed that she is being denied contact with her family.
“I don’t know whether I’m allowed to fly to Miami to say happy birthday to my dad,” she said. “I’m exhausted thinking about, ‘What if I can’t see my dad for his birthday?’ You know, at 94, you know, the day after that is not promised.”
In an interview with “The View” in March, the media personality said, “It’s time for my money and my life to get back to status quo.”
via: Daily News
