Producers Defend Where is Wendy Williams Documentary

Over the weekend the "Where is Wendy Williams" documentary aired on lifetime, where it was shockingly revealed that the former daytime talk show host is suffering from alcohol related dementia [click here if you missed that]. 

The producers for "Where is Wendy Williams" insist they did NOT know Wendy was suffering from dementia when they started filming and got her family involved as soon as they realized what was happening...

From ETonline

The producers behind the newly released Where Is Wendy Williams? documentary say their two-part film went through rigorous and diligent checks before it went live over the weekend on Lifetime for millions to see.

Talking with ET's Kevin Frazier, producers Mark Ford and Erica Hanson defended their project and said that not only were numerous lawyers brought in to ensure that things were handled fairly and correctly, but Wendy Williams' own manager, Will Selby, was involved to make sure it was done in the right way.

"It started with her management Will Selby but then it went through a battery of attorneys with -- through the guardianship, through attorneys for the guardianship, or publicists. So every single person on her side of the equation signed off and had detailed conversations with our attorneys," Ford told ET. "No one wanted to jump into this haphazardly."

Hanson and Ford on Monday doubled down on their beliefs that all of the right boxes were checked prior to getting to the end of the line. Ford also claimed that the 59-year-old television host's family became directly involved in the process, even after some early skepticism.

"You know, it's interesting because we -- our understanding was that we would start with the family. But it took us a little time to make them comfortable, you know, so it was several months into filming that we finally started having conversations with the family and the family was then able to reveal their side of the story," he said. "Which made it even more important for us to keep filming so that we could continue to explore all the questions that they were raising."

"It turned out that they weren't there in the beginning, but there were conversations pretty soon after we began in which we started having that conversation with them directly," he continued. "And it just, of course, it took time for them to trust the project, trust us. But ultimately, we felt it was so essential that we -- there was no way we're gonna, we were going to proceed with this without the family completely on board."