Amid heartbreaking news about her declining health, Wendy Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, is still locked in a serious legal battle over the media personality’s most recent on camera appearance.
Following the February airing of Lifetime’s controversial documentary, “Where is Wendy Williams?” Morrissey filed a lawsuit accusing producers of filming it without her consent. She also alleged that the project was originally supposed to follow the former talk show host’s comeback attempt, but exploited her health battles instead.
According to TMZ, Lifetime’s parent company, A+E Networks has responded to the suit, claiming Morrissey is “exceeding her authority by trying to get parts of the documentary changed and redacted,” because Williams “signed a talent agreement long before she was mentally incapacitated.”
The two-part documentary received criticism from the media maven’s fans, who accused it of exploiting Williams and taking advantage of her diminished state. A+E states that since there’s no law against using someone with dementia in a documentary, it did nothing wrong. And it once again pointed to her talent agreement.
A+E Networks is countersuing Morrissey, claiming that her lawsuit to stop the doc from airing infringed on its First Amendment rights. The company is alleging that she’s trying to take away “one of [Williams’] last chances to exercise her autonomy and honestly reach her fans in exactly the frank and unfiltered manner that was the hallmark of her career.”
The details of A+E’s countersuit comes just one day after news that the former radio host’s condition has worsened and she’s now “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated.”
From the moment Williams left her long-running talk show to deal with multiple health issues, she’s been locked in one legal battle after another. No matter how you feel about Wendy Williams, we can agree that no one should have to spend what may be their final days surrounded by non-stop legal drama and questions about who’s controlling her legacy.