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Inside Wendy Williams' Frontotemporal Dementia Diagnosis: Her Life Expectancy and Signs She Was Struggling

Williams' care team on Thursday announced the diagnosis in an effort 'to correct inaccurate and hurtful rumors about her health.'

There are some sad and harsh realities facing Wendy Williams amid her aphasia and frontotemporal dementia diagnosis (FTD), and complicating those matters is the tragic fact that FTD is an incurable disease, meaning that, almost in an instant, the beloved former talk show host's life expectancy has been cut drastically. On Thursday, Williams' care team announced that she was also diagnosed with the disease in 2023, and they now decided to come forward with the diagnosis in an effort "to correct inaccurate and hurtful rumors about her health." She's not making as much sense, being as coherent, and you can see that the priorities of her life change as she really does recognize that the fame and the fortune -- when you are in this kind of situation -- it doesn't really have the meaning that it has to be with people who love you and care about you," Reiss says.

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