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Wendy Williams in 2019, New York City. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Wendy Williams’ guardian has settled the lawsuit over Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams? doc.
According to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone, Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, and the defendants — which include Lifetime and its parent company, A&E Network — filed a joint motion to resolve the matter which covered the settlement agreement, the proposed attorneys’ fees and costs to be paid to Williams’ attorneys, and the proposed distribution of any settlement payment.
Just days before the doc’s 2024 release, Williams’ care team revealed that she had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Morrissey first sued Lifetime, A&E Network, and other producers on the doc in February 2024, hoping to block the film’s rollout. Her effort was unsuccessful.
The following September, Morrissey filed an amended complaint over the two-part series and claimed it was made “without a valid contract” while Williams was “highly vulnerable and clearly incapable of consenting to being filmed, much less humiliated and exploited.”
The lawsuit accused A&E Network of “willfully taking advantage of a severely impaired, incapacitated person” and making “millions” from the docuseries. Meanwhile, the suit alleged that the former talk show host “received a paltry $82,000.” In her filing, Morrissey demanded that all the profits from Where Is Wendy Williams? go to Williams, “who will need significant funding to provide for proper medical care and supervision for the rest of her life.”
The new amended complaint also alleged that the doc’s producers presented the contract after Williams had been filmed while “clearly disheveled, not mentally present, and confused.” The suit stated that “No person who witnessed W.W.H. in these circumstances could possibly have believed she was capable of consenting either to an agreement to film or to the filming itself.” (The doc chronicled two years in the media personality’s life as Williams faced a decline in her health that ultimately led to her being placed under court-ordered guardianship in 2022.)
