“What were they doing to her?” — Netizens react as Wendy Williams denies having frontotemporal dementia and calls the claim “disgusting”

Wendy Williams is pushing back on the concerns about the status of her health. She claims it's "disgusting" that people thought she had frontotemporal dementia.

During an interview on The Breakfast Club podcast this Wednesday, the former talk show host asserted that she is fine and would be open to collaborating with Lifetime again, despite her legal team being at odds with the network over a contentious documentary about her.

Users online have since begun reacting to the news with curiosity, as some are confused about what the truth is. Take a look at what one user said, for instance:

"She sounds perfectly fine, what were they doing to her???? Wow."

The theories and speculations didn't end there:

"I feel like Wendy about to make a COMEBACK and tell everything. They thought they could silence her!" one user exclaimed.

"This sounds like purple chair Wendy!" another observer stated.

"How are they just able to hold this woman prisoner in America?" someone else probed.

Even more chimed in with concerns and observations about the television personality:

"She sounds competent to me," someone noted.

"What I'm not understanding is WHY her family, her blood. Why are they not fighting to get her back home and free from her conservator and the meds they unnecessarily have her on! The family needs to get a lawyer and fight for her freedom!" another demanded.

"Love to hear her sounding alright," a well-wished stated.

Users were visibly teeming with opinions:

"WHO is THIS GUARDIAN? I’m tired of them and I always thought Wendy was messy but real this is ridiculous," someone opined.

"I’ve had family members with dementia. This lady don’t have it," another claimed.

Hundreds online expressed concern at Wendy's current status quo, noting that perhaps she should be shifted to someone else's care.

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Wendy Williams slams claims she's ill, says she's "not a baby"

Speaking on the podcast, Williams categorically denied all claims that she is “permanently incapacitated” and ridiculed her court-appointed guardianship, which has been in effect since 2022:

“The idea that I have dementia is ridiculous,” Williams said. “I know exactly who I am. I’m still Wendy.”

She doubled down on her claims:

"I don’t have frontotemporal dementia…it’s disgusting. I’m not incapacitated. I am not a baby.”

Williams also called out Morrissey's lawsuit against A&E Television Networks, Lifetime Entertainment, and more over the docuseries Where Is Wendy Williams? As People Magazine reported, Morrissey took issue with the way Wendy was portrayed in it, noting that it "shamelessly exploits [Williams] and portrays her in an extremely demeaning and undignified manner.":

"This case arises from the brutally calculated, deliberate actions of powerful and cravenly opportunistic media companies working together with a producer to knowingly exploit [Williams]," the filing alleged in part, per the outlet.

As for Wendy Williams, she noted that she did watch the docuseries once and that she would never watch it ever again:

“It was disgusting, and by the way, I watched it with my guardianship person,” she added. “Yes, we watched that together. That was the first time this guardianship person was like, ‘Oh my gosh,’ and she was writing stuff down. I was looking like, ‘Oh my god,’ do you know what I'm saying? What happened with this?"

However, she did assert that she would be open to working with Lifetime sometime in the future again:

“I've worked with Lifetime several times,” she explained. “Enough that I would love to do something with Lifetime again. They are good people to me and I am good people to them."

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Wendy Williams' diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia was revealed in May 2023.