Discuss present host Wendy Williams has been identified with aphasia and dementia, in response to a press release from her workforce.
“In 2023, after present process a battery of medical checks, Wendy was formally identified with major 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 capacity to course of info and lots of have speculated about Wendy’s situation, significantly when she started to lose phrases, act erratically at instances, and have issue understanding monetary transactions.
Williams’ prognosis is actually 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 on account of 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 Expertise after which along with her long-running daytime discuss 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 underneath a monetary guardianship.
“There’s hope that with early detection and way more empathy, the stigma related to dementia will probably be eradicated, and people affected will obtain the understanding, assist, and care they deserve and wish,” Williams’ workforce’s assertion reads.
A documentary on Williams will premiere later this week on Lifetime. Based on Folks, the documentary started taking pictures across the time her discuss present ended and “got down to observe Williams’ comeback as she ready to launch a brand new podcast. The movie rapidly developed into one thing solely completely different” as her well being deteriorated amidst dependancy points.
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