Wendy Williams Diagnosed With Dementia and Aphasia

Talk present host Wendy Williams has been identified with aphasia and dementia, in keeping with a press release from her staff.

“In 2023, after undergoing a battery of medical tests, Wendy was officially diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD),” the assertion says.

The assertion additionally addresses the rumors about Williams which were reported within the media in recent times…

Over the previous few years, questions have been raised at instances about Wendy’s skill to course of data and many have speculated about Wendy’s situation, notably when she started to lose phrases, act erratically at instances, and have issue understanding monetary transactions.

Williams’ prognosis is basically the identical because the one given to Bruce Willis, the TV and movie star whose household introduced within the spring of 2022 that he was stepping away from appearing attributable to his deteriorating situation.

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Williams was a well-liked radio DJ who then moved into tv, first with the truth sequence The Wendy Williams Experience and then along with her long-running daytime speak present, The Wendy Williams Show. It aired in syndication from 2008 to 2021. Not lengthy after that, a monetary adviser claimed she was of “unsound mind,” and Wells Fargo petitioned a New York Court to have the host put beneath a monetary guardianship.

“There is hope that with early detection and far more empathy, the stigma associated with dementia will be eliminated, and those affected will receive the understanding, support, and care they deserve and need,” Williams’ staff’s assertion reads.

A documentary on Williams will premiere later this week on Lifetime. According to People, the documentary started taking pictures across the time her speak present ended and “set out to follow Williams’ comeback as she prepared to launch a new podcast. The film quickly evolved into something entirely different” as her well being deteriorated amidst dependancy points.