Wendy Williams, Bruce Willis dementia diagnoses spotlight disease
Dr. Daniel Amen spoke with USA TODAY about frontotemporal dementia and what a diagnosis of the incurable disease might look like.
The health of former celebrity talk show host Wendy Williams is again a concern, as she reportedly was recently removed from an assisted living facility.
Here’s the latest developments regarding Wendy Williams.
What happened to Wendy Williams?
On Monday, the New York City Police Department responded to a welfare check at the senior living facility where Wendy Williams lived, a spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY. It continued: “EMS responded and transported a 60 year old female to an area hospital for evaluation.
According to reporting by the New York Post, Williams dropped a note out of the window of her apartment to a paparazzi photographer outside. The note said “Help! Wendy!!”
The Asbury Park, New Jersey native was seen a short time later being escorted out of the building.
Wendy Williams’ spokesperson confirms dementia diagnosis
Wendy Williams’ guardian Sabrina Morrissey also confirmed Williams’ health status in comments to USA TODAY.
Morrissey has said, through her lawyers, in court filings that “The Wendy Williams Show” star is “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated” due to the primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia with which she was diagnosed in 2023, which lead to Williams” being placed in guardianship.
Williams has at times fought the guardianship.
In February, Morrissey revealed in a court document addressing comments that Williams “has recently made, as reported in the media, concerning both her own mental capacity” and a lawsuit Morrissey filed against Lifetime last year over the documentary “Where is Wendy Williams?”
Wendy Williams would be undergoing a “new medical evaluation” of her condition, Morrisey wrote, noting the former TV star “has now repeatedly stated publicly that she disagrees with her FTD diagnosis.”
However, Morrissey added this is a “symptom that is not uncommon for patients with FTD who have impaired awareness even regarding their own impairments.”
