A&E has countersued Wendy Williams’ guardian Sabrina Morrissey amid the ongoing legal battle over the controversial Lifetime documentary about the former talk show host.
In a new lawsuit, the cable network argued that it had the right to air the “Where Is Wendy Williams?” docuseries that Morrissey tried to get shut down when it premiered in February, according to TMZ.
A&E said that Williams, 60, signed a talent agreement before she became mentally “incapacitated” from her dementia battle.
Morrissey, meanwhile, is suing A&E for allegedly taking advantage of Williams and airing her personal struggles in the doc.
A&E now countersued Morrissey for allegedly attempting to infringe upon the company’s First Amendment rights — specifically, when she took legal action earlier this year to plead with a judge to stop the docuseries from airing.
According to TMZ, the network claimed that Morrissey is trying to deny Williams “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 Post has reached out to Williams’ rep for comment.
Williams has been under a court-ordered guardianship that oversees her health and finances since she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. The former radio host is allegedly in a care facility with limited contact with her family.
In February, Morrissey launched a lawsuit against A&E. However, her attempts to cancel “Where Is Wendy Williams?” were unsuccessful.
Williams was allegedly only paid $82,000 for the controversial doc.
In one scene, Williams visited her hometown of Asbury Park, NJ, and pointed out her childhood street, only to be told by a stranger that it was on a different road.
Another scene showed a confused Williams yelling at her driver and former publicist to buy vape pens. After they arrived at her usual smoke shop, a disoriented Williams threw a tantrum.
Recently, Morrissey’s attorneys filed court documents claiming that A&E, Lifetime and other parties involved in making the documentary “cruelly took advantage” of Williams’ “cognitive and physical decline” and requested a trial to sort out the case.
Morrissey’s legal team said Williams is currently “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated” from her dementia battle.
In the filing, A&E, Lifetime and the rest of the defendants argued they had Williams’ “consent, input, and participation” to make the documentary before she was diagnosed with dementia and before she had a guardian.
They also said Morrissey started the legal battle “to attempt to excuse her own failure to protect” Williams.
Williams has stepped away from the public eye amid her health struggles.
She told her fans she needed “personal space and peace to thrive” after going public with her frontotemporal dementia and aphasia diagnoses in February.
“I hope that others with FTD may benefit from my story,” she said in a statement. “Please just know that your positivity and encouragement are deeply appreciated.”
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