{"id":339101,"date":"2025-12-11T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339101\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:24:07","slug":"wendy-williams-is-fine-was-misdiagnosed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339101\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Williams Is Fine, Was Misdiagnosed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Wendy Williams could exit her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/365629\/judge-teases-even-less-autonomy-for-wendy-williams.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">court-appointed conservatorship<\/a> within weeks, her lawyer says, following what he claims was a misdiagnosis. In a Nightline segment aired Tuesday, attorney Joe Tacopina said Dr. Samuel E. Gandy, a New York neurologist who specializes in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, had concluded 61-year-old Williams does not have frontotemporal dementia or aphasia, despite a 2023 diagnosis, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/12\/10\/wendy-williams-alcohol-induced-dementia-guardianship\/87706583007\/?tbref=hp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>. Williams was instead suffering from <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/diseases\/alcohol-related-dementia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol-induced dementia<\/a> in 2023, Tacopina claims. &#8220;She was an alcoholic, no question about it. Wendy was drunk almost 24 hours a day,&#8221; he said. She needed help, but in the form of &#8220;alcohol rehabilitation,&#8221; he said.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Given that Williams no longer drinks, she could leave the conservatorship &#8220;by year&#8217;s end,&#8221; Tacopina said, noting that as a leading authority, Gandy&#8217;s opinion should carry significant weight. Williams&#8217; longtime friend Sunny Hostin told Nightline that the former talk show host recently &#8220;sounds like the same Wendy.&#8221; Williams herself has claimed to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/365512\/in-dramatic-scene-wendy-williams-taken-to-hospital.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed a competency exam<\/a>. But these assessments conflict with those of Williams&#8217; current guardian, attorney Sabrina Morrissey. In legal filings last year, she described Williams as &#8220;cognitively impaired and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/360169\/guardian-wendy-williams-permanently-incapacitated.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">permanently incapacitated<\/a>.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        In August, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/wendy-williams-medical-exam-complete-dementia-diagnosis-upholds-her-guardianship-exclusive-11695906\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> reported Williams&#8217; dementia and aphasia diagnoses had been reaffirmed, though Tacopina claims not to have reviewed those findings. The debate comes as Williams&#8217; ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, is pressing a federal lawsuit that attacks the underlying guardianship as &#8220;improper&#8221; and overly broad. The complaint accuses Morrissey and Wells Fargo, which first sought the guardianship in 2022, of unlawfully restricting Williams&#8217; civil liberties and straying from accepted professional standards. Defendants are expected to respond to his amended complaint in January. For now, at least, Williams remains at an upscale assisted-living facility in New York.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Wendy Williams could exit her court-appointed conservatorship within weeks, her lawyer says, following what he claims was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[60053,15766,49,48,361,105326,10237,75,15765,45403,147574,119074,100364],"class_list":{"0":"post-339101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alcoholic","9":"tag-aphasia","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-conservatorship","14":"tag-dementia","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-frontotemporal-dementia","17":"tag-guardianship","18":"tag-joe-tacopina","19":"tag-neurologist","20":"tag-wendy-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}