Wendy Williams Is Now “Permanently Disabled And Legally Incapacitated”

An update on Wendy Williams‘ health has been shared in court documents.

According to docs obtained by PEOPLE Magazine, the 60-year-old has been deemed “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and legally incapacitated,” per her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey.

The filing comes amid an ongoing legal battle between the former talk show host against A&E Television Networks, Lifetime Entertainment, and eOne over allegedly “exploiting” the media mogul in the controversial 2024 documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? 

“This case arises from the brutally calculated, deliberate actions of powerful and cravenly opportunistic media companies working together with a producer to knowingly exploit [Williams],” the documents assert per PEOPLE. “FTD is a progressive disease, meaning that there is no cure and the symptoms only get worse over time.”

The paperwork continues to claim the project was “filmed without a valid contract and released without Guardian’s consent, adding that Williams was in a “highly vulnerable” state and was “clearly incapable of consenting to being filmed, much less humiliated and exploited.”

Earlier this year, Williams shared a confirmed diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. In the past, she has also been open about her battle with Graves’ Disease and Lymphedema, as well as other health-related issues.

“The deeper we got into it, honestly, it became more of a concern [about] what would happen to Wendy if we stopped filming than if we continued,” exclaimed executive producer Mark Ford earlier this year when the film was released to the Los Angeles Times.

“We also knew that we had the power to never air it. If this film couldn’t go in a redeeming or positive direction, then I guarantee you Lifetime never would have aired it, and we wouldn’t have been interested in airing it.”