The producers of the Lifetime docuseries Where is Wendy Williams? are pointing the finger back at the star’s guardian following her lawsuit against them.
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In their counterclaims against Wendy Williams‘ guardian, Lifetime and A&E, Creature Films production company along with its president, Mark Ford, and the production company Entertainment One, are putting the blame on Sabrina Morrissey. According to reports from the U.S. Sun, attorneys are blaming Morrissey for trying to stop the documentary from being released by filing a restraining order days before its February premiere.
In the suit, they claimed Wendy’s guardian was “inhibiting and interfering with the exercise of free speech rights regarding an issue of public concern by [Lifetime]. [The guardianship] isolated [Wendy] from her family, left her largely alone and unattended in her apartment, exacerbated her self-destructive behavior and mental decline, and failed to prevent her use and/or abuse of alcohol.”
The parties claim Morrissey wanted to stop the documentary from airing because it showed how the guardianship put in place to guard Wendy’s interests instead “isolated her from her family, left her largely alone and unattended in her apartment, exacerbated her self-destructive behavior and mental decline, and failed to prevent her use and/or abuse of alcohol.”
They doubled down on their argument that Wendy’s guardian wanted to stop the release because the documentary made her look bad.
“Thus, it appears that Morrisey is misusing her position as a guardian of [Wendy] to silence criticism of her controversial and failed administration of [Wendy’s] guardianship,” the suit reads.
Lifetime goes on to claim that Williams’ own family members “also saw the documentary before it aired, in early February 2024” and that they “approved its content and supported its release,” reports the U.S. Sun.
They went on to add that several members of the star’s family gave press interviews to promote the doc.
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Entertainment One’s counterclaim goes on to allege that Williams’ guardian’s case against them comes from Morrissey’s attempt to “exceed the scope of her judicial authority over” Wendy, “attempt to excuse her own failure to protect” Wendy, and “supplant [Wendy’s] wishes with her own. The claim also accuses Sabrina of denying the talk show host “perhaps one of her last chances to exercise her autonomy and honestly reach her fans in exactly the frank and unfiltered manner that was the hallmark of her career.”
The company also denies previous allegations that they only paid the media icon $82,000 for the documentary, saying in the suit that they paid Wendy “approximately $400,000 for her participation” via her company, The Wendy Experience, Inc.
