Wendy Williams’ Guardian Argued Lifetime Documentary Was Exploitive & Talk Host “Lacked Capacity” To Enter Into Contract, Unsealed Lawsuit Shows
deadline.comA 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 Feb.
24 and 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.
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