Wendy Williams is ‘cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated,’ guardian says
According to a memo submitted by Wendy Williams' guardian's attorneys, she has developed cognitive impairment and is now permanently handicapped.
Attorneys for her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, stated in a Nov. 12 court filing in New York that the 60-year-old former talk show presenter has been incapacitated due to early-onset dementia.
According to a statement released by her team in February, Williams was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia in 2023.
A syndrome of the neurological system that impairs communication is primary progressive aphasia.According to the Mayo Clinic, frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, is a set of disorders that impact the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. It is typically linked to behavioral and personality abnormalities, as w...