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Wendy Williams Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia: What to Know About the Incurable Brain Disorder

Wendy Williams' care team revealed her diagnosis on behalf of the former daytime talk show host.

It added that the decision to share this news was difficult, but in doing so, Williams and her team are hoping to raise awareness about aphasia and FTD. Over the last several years, the TV personality's health struggles -- coupled with upheaval in her personal life -- have been well documented: from fainting on live TV back in October 2017 (which she claimed was from dehydration), revealing her Graves' disease diagnosis on her show in February 2018 (forcing her to take three weeks off) and her shoulder fracture in December 2018, to dealing with a very public breakup with then-husband Kevin Hunter, whom she officially divorced in January 2020 after 25 years of marriage. In February 2022, Wells Fargo alleged that Williams was of "unsound mind" and required guardianship due to purported "undue influence and financial exploitation."

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