Wendy Williams Doc Producers Say They Have Filmed Didn't Know About Her Dementia Diagnosis

The producers behind the new Wendy Williams documentary are making it clear they would not have filmed the controversial project if they had known the full extent of her health crisis. Wendy's dementia diagnosis was made public mere days before her Lifetime doc premiered on Saturday highlighting the 59-year-old's intimate struggles with alcohol abuse and a myriad of other health issues. In the doc, the full extent of Wendy's struggles were revealed she's dealing with frontotemporal dementia In the wake of the doc airing, there's been backlash against Lifetime/the production company that proceeded with the project but now the creative team is defending themselves. Producer Mark Ford says the original plan was to follow Wendy between August 2022 and April 2023 while she sobered up and launched a new podcast. Once it became clear, however, that this wasn't the story that was going to be told he says they just went with it and saw what they could capture but he insists they were never privy to an official medical diagnosis like the one that came down from her team last week. The original narrative, he says, was scrapped as Wendy's health deteriorated prompting concern from the filmmakers. Wendy's son Kevin Hunter Jr. later claimed to the cameras that his mother had "alcohol-induced" dementia different than what had been announced and well after they were in the thick of production. 

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