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Wendy Williams’ Guardian Tried to Gag Lifetime Docuseries After Seeing Critical Trailer, A+E Claims

New court documents outline the last-minute legal battle that led the network to accuse the ailing daytime star's caretaker of compelling the court to violate her First Amendment rights.

The filing called the project a “blatant exploitation of a vulnerable woman with a serious medical condition.” Morrissey successfully won the emergency restraining order but it was quickly reversed by Appellate Justice Peter H. Moulton, who found that stopping the company from airing the documentary would be an “impermissible prior restraint on speech that violates the First Amendment of the Constitution.” Lawyers for the company pointed out that as the legal drama unfolded in late February, a press release was issued by Williams’ so-called “care team” (which they presume is only Morrissey) announcing that the ailing daytime star had primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. airing would be very much in the public interest, as it deals with the issue of conservatorship, which gained national attention when the legal appointment of Britney Spears’ father was called into question and led to the #FreeBritney movement.

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