By:Connor Surmonte
Wendy Williams' legal team wants the Lifetime Channel to pay her medical bills, claiming the cable network cruelly laid her mental and medical woes bare for ratings in a TV documentary about her decline.
RadarOnline.com can reveal Lifetime cameras trailed Williams for seven months, recording her downward spiral for the two-part doc Where Is Wendy Williams?
It aired in February and became one of the most watched shows in the network's history – but Williams received just $82,000 for the project, which her lawyers say exposed her.
The Lifetime documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? premiered in February.
Her legal team, in its complaint against Lifetime and its parent company A&E Networks, wrote: "This is a paltry sum for the use of highly invasive, humiliating footage that showed her in the confusing throes of dementia, while defendants, who have profited on the streaming of the program, have likely already earned millions."
Williams' attorneys previously tried to block the doc from airing.
The complaint continued: "No person who witnessed (Williams) in these circumstances could possibly have believed that she was capable of consenting to an agreement to film."
They also claimed Williams was portrayed as a "laughingstock and drunkard, implicitly responsible for her own continued suffering".
Williams apparently received just $82,000 for Where Is Wendy Williams?
The former daytime diva, 60, was a ratings sensation with her syndicated TV talk show from 2008 to 2021, when she went MIA to battle Graves' disease and substance abuse.
And in 2023, Williams was diagnosed with aphasia – a disorder robbing sufferers of the use of language – as well as dementia, and was placed in a wellness facility.
The drama queen diva resurfaced for the first time in 19 months in late August when she was spotted shopping with her son, Kevin Hunter Jr.
An
insider said: "Wendy faces long-term care for the rest of her life, and
her wealth has dwindled considerably as she's no longer able to work."
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