Things don't sound good for Wendy Williams ... her battle with dementia has left the former talk show host "permanently incapacitated" ... at least according to her guardian.
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00:00Wendy Williams condition is not getting any better. In fact, it is getting worse
00:05You know, of course that she was diagnosed with dementia and it's the same form that Bruce Willis has, right?
00:12And it is gotten temporal way worse. It is permanent according to these new filings and
00:21The Guardian is alarmed that information is getting out
00:25Wendy is being taken advantage of and they want to put a stop to all of it now, right?
00:30This is a financial guardian that was put in place by Wells Fargo Bank
00:34but the financial guardian is now really
00:38stepping up and
00:40Defending Wendy against what the Guardian sees as people trying to exploit her now
00:46Exploiter in terms of look
00:48I mean there was a big documentary on her and the Guardian was opposed to that even coming out
00:52Tried at the last minute to get it and and in these documents they say this was cruel this you know
00:58She was clearly not with it disheveled yet. They did it. Anyway take an advantage of their take an advantage of
01:05financially by people right and the Guardian says this is so alarming and I think
01:10The reason the Guardian wants things now private in all of these filings is because if they're not private
01:18It's gonna show everybody how vulnerable Wendy is
01:21And that she's gonna be exploited
01:23And so they want to redact as much as possible from the various documents
01:29That they're gonna have to file to maintain this guardianship
01:32Yeah, essentially they're just trying to protect Wendy
01:34But the biggest thing I felt like in this letter that was filed is by them saying permanently
01:39Incapacitated I mean to me that that sounds pretty bad because we got that photo
01:44I think just a few months ago in August she was at like a New Jersey
01:48Holistic shop or something and some fans spotted her and honestly when I saw the photo
01:52I thought she looked pretty good
01:53So I don't know I mean obviously you could dementia you you can look like you're doing great
01:58And maybe maybe she's not but it's obviously shows that Wendy's not doing very well right now
02:03I mean we never see her and I think you're right that the Guardian is
02:08Doesn't want all of that information out there to protect her not just for her image. That's part of it
02:13I'm sure but
02:16Financial guardian so they're worried about exploitation and look we've seen unfortunately we've seen some of the effects of this
02:24Condition because we've seen Bruce Willis go through it and his family at times has been more open and that they are want people to see
02:32What Bruce's life is like from time to time there's a difference because in Bruce Willis's case
02:38He's really being protected by the family exactly that's what I was gonna say that that's the difference
02:42He's not right. I mean she really doesn't have a family. She has a child, but you know
02:48look she had a very rancorous divorce and
02:52You know when you read this document. They're saying she has been taken advantage of left and right
02:59Hi, I'm Ava from Phoenix, Arizona
03:02I think we all want Wendy Williams to be protected from exploitation
03:08But there's also a desire from her fans to know that she is being protected and
03:13There's a concern there that if there's too much privacy and too much emphasis on protecting her privacy
03:18Then people aren't going to know that the people around her have her best interest at heart
03:24there are going to be a lot of questions regarding who these guardians are and
03:28What their authority is and how far they're willing to go to protect her privacy and are they in fact making the best?
03:35Decisions for her Ava you triggered me
03:39And I'll tell you why to me
03:41that's the problem that when fans think that they should be informed and
03:47Voice how they feel about something like this glad you said it
03:52But I just I just think that the legal system when you have a guardianship like this
03:57It needs to be looked at by the Guardian and not what the public wants
04:05You