Wendy Williams Diagnosed With Dementia and Aphasia

Discuss present host Wendy Williams has been identified with aphasia and dementia, based on an announcement from her workforce.

“In 2023, after present process a battery of medical checks, Wendy was formally identified with main 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 occasions about Wendy’s skill to course of info and lots of have speculated about Wendy’s situation, notably when she started to lose phrases, act erratically at occasions, 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 performing resulting from his deteriorating situation.

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Williams was a preferred radio DJ who then moved into tv, first with the fact sequence The Wendy Williams Expertise after which together with her long-running daytime speak present, The Wendy Williams Present. It aired in syndication from 2008 to 2021. Not lengthy after that, a monetary adviser claimed she was of “unsound thoughts,” and Wells Fargo petitioned a New York Court docket to have the host put below a monetary guardianship.

“There’s hope that with early detection and way more empathy, the stigma related to dementia will likely be eradicated, and people affected will obtain the understanding, help, and care they deserve and want,” Williams’ workforce’s assertion reads.

A documentary on Williams will premiere later this week on Lifetime. In response to Folks, the documentary started taking pictures across the time her speak present ended and “got down to comply with Williams’ comeback as she ready to launch a brand new podcast. The movie shortly advanced into one thing solely totally different” as her well being deteriorated amidst dependancy points.