Wendy Williams Documentary Meant to Expose Guardianships

Last week two producers from the, "Where is Wendy Williams," documentary on Lifetime assured Wendy Williams' fans they had not seen the last of Wendy and that she saw and approved of the controversial documentary [click here if you missed that]. 

The producers are also the claiming the doc was meant to expose Wendy's dire conditions and to expose what these "court ordered guardianships" are really like...

From People

Producers of Where Is Wendy Williams? say the Lifetime docuseries sheds light on Wendy Williams’ “dire” living conditions under a conservatorship.

Mark Ford and Erica Hanson, who served as executive producers, attended an awards consideration panel in Hollywood on May 1, where they said they were worried about Williams’ circumstances during production — as she was shown to have been living alone and without food in her refrigerator — and sought to get in touch with her loved ones.

“The deeper we got into it, we didn't want to let go of Wendy until we got her back in touch with her family,” Ford said. “Because we felt that at a certain point that's who's going to be there for her to care for her.”

Ford noted that at the time they were not made aware of her frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis and still had several questions post-production about why, as it appeared to them, Williams was not receiving adequate care and why her legal and financial guardian Sabrina Morrissey was “not responding to any kind of calls for help.”

During the May 1 panel, Ford recalled that “you could see Erica and Michael towards the end of the documentary, very, very worried and saying to her management, who was the only other person that was coming into her apartment on a daily basis, 'Something has to be done to help her.'” He added, “This is getting very dire and scary.”

“And because she was under a guardianship, her family couldn't just fly up and hang out and decide to get involved in her medical care,” he explained. “They were removed from that process by the courts so they could face legal ramifications if they tried to get too involved.”

Ford said that is when the documentary “took a turn” and tried to “expose what these guardianships are like” when the family is not involved. Hanson added that she felt it was “incomprehensible” that Williams’ son, Kevin Hunter, Jr., didn’t know where she was and “can’t call her” despite having previously tried to “help his mother with all of her addiction issues.”

“I just think, in the end, you really see what happens when a guardian has complete control and the family is cut out and they don't know how she's being treated medically. And they don't know what's happened with her finances,” Hanson said.