Wendy Williams' Rep Slams 'Where Is Wendy Williams?,' Claims It's Different From What They Were Pitched & She'd Be 'Mortified'

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Wendy Williams‘ rep is slamming the Lifetime docu-series Where Is Wendy Williams? amid the talk show host’s diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Shawn Zanotti gave an interview sharing that the docu-series that was pitched is completely different than what was released. Keep reading to find out more… Shawn has been working with Wendy since 2021. Shawn shared with the Today show, “I felt that [Williams] was being exploited.

She thought we were focusing on the comeback of her career. … She would be mortified. There’s no way you can convince me that she would be OK with looking and seeing herself in that way.” Wendy was reportedly pitched the series in 2022. “When I mentioned [doing a documentary] to Wendy, she immediately said: ‘Yes, I would love to do it.

I would love to be able to get my story out there,’” Shawn said, adding that what ended up making it to air was not what they had agreed on originally. “That is not the project that [Williams] signed up for.

That’s not the project [the producers] brought to me. That’s not what I told her this was going to be about,” Shawn continued. “There were a lot of good moments.