Wendy Williams’ Guardianship Is Upheld After New Medical Exam Results

Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been fighting for her freedom since her court-ordered legal guardianship began in 2022. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that freedom is coming soon.

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Legal documents obtained by PEOPLE indicate the television personality's medical evaluation — which included a "significant number of tests (both medical and neuropsychological) and scans (including brain imaging)" — has been completed and doctors have determined an "opinion" about Williams' neurological condition and diagnosis.

Though the condition is not listed in the paperwork, sources tell PEOPLE that Williams has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and aphasia. She was first diagnosed with FTD and aphasia in 2023.

In the documents, an attorney for Williams' guardian Sabrina Morrissey requests the court extend the guardianship for three months — with an end date of Nov. 5.

The attorney also notes that "complications have arisen" due to various parties, including counsel for certain members of [Williams'] family, [Williams'] ex-husband, and others, have indicated their intention to challenge both the Guardianship itself as well as Ms. Morrissey’s status as Guardian."

The update comes five months after the former talk show host was removed from her assisted living facility and taken to the hospital by the New York Police Department on March 10.

The following day, Williams called into Good Day New York, where she claimed that she received mental competency tests following her 2023 dementia diagnosis and claims that she was "cognitively impaired."

“I passed with flying colors!” she alleged, asking her caretaker, Ginalia Monterrosa, who accompanied her to the hospital, to “elaborate on everything.”

"She had those tests, she’s been deemed she is not incapacitated," Monterrosa told the show’s anchor Rosanna Scotto. “I think it’s great news, and it’s public, and everybody knows factually that Wendy’s not incapacitated.”

When Scotto asked if Williams was satisfied with the independent examination of her psychological well-being, Williams exclaimed: “Absolutely. That is what I want, and that is what I got."

Since May 2022, Williams has been living under a legal guardianship that oversees both her finances and health. She and Morrissey have been at odds over the status of her wellbeing.

In February 2024, Williams' medical care team revealed the 60-year-old television personality had been diagnosed with progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Then in November, amid her ongoing legal battle with A&E Television Networks over Lifetime's Where Is Wendy Williams? series, Morrissey claimed Williams was "cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated" in court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

After Williams denied she was "incapacitated" during her Feb. 5 appearance on The Breakfast Club, Morrissey requested a “new medical evaluation" in a court filing hours after the radio program.

In June, Williams' ex-husband Kevin Hunter filed a lawsuit against the facilitators of her years-long guardianship.

The complaint, which was obtained by PEOPLE, alleged, “Guardianship is a civil death. In New York, more than 28,000 adults, which includes [Williams], are being abused, neglected, and defrauded under the care of court-appointed guardians,"

The filing, which Hunter claimed he filed on her behalf, noted that the lawsuit is not seeking an end to Williams' guardianship; however, Hunter's requests included “new impartial guardian," the unsealing of her case’s files, her release from “involuntary confinement,” a full forensic accounting and $250 million in relief for financial loss, reputational damage and harm, emotional distress, legal expenses and deprivation of liberty.

In the documents, Hunter claimed that Williams “has been the victim of unrestrained abuse, maltreatment, and fiscal malfeasance” in the three years since her guardianship was first imposed, in what he alleges was “a secret proceeding” where she was not provided the opportunity to obtain "adequate legal representation.”

However, LaShawn Thomas, the attorney who filed the lawsuit, acknowledged in a statement to PEOPLE that Williams is "not legally aware of all of the evidence that supports our claims that she should not be forced to suffer from this guardianship."

"I plan on laying out sufficient evidence to support our claims and ensure that her rights are vindicated and she is made whole financially," the statement continued.