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Wendy Williams Doc Producers: “If We’d Known She Had Dementia, No One Would’ve Rolled a Camera”

The producers of Lifetime's 'Where is Wendy Williams?' discuss the making of the unsettling doc, and what they learned (and grew increasingly infuriated about) along the way.

So, for the better part of a year, his cameras kept rolling, documenting the increasingly fragile state that the former talk show host had found herself in, as she alternately craved family, her former TV platform and an excessive amount of alcohol, all while struggling to remain coherent. Though the latter remains a mystery to the project’s producers to this day, a press release on behalf of Williams and her current care team was sent out just ahead of the documentary, revealing that the former shock jock and TV host of 12 years had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, which impacts language, communication behavior and cognitive function. was set to debut, Williams’ guardian, whose identity is redacted throughout the doc, filed a lawsuit against Lifetime’s parent company trying to block the network from airing the two-night documentary event.

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