Charlamagne Tha God Asserts Wendy Williams’ Rude Behavior Has “Nothing To Do With Dementia”

Charlamagne Tha God has shared his thoughts on Wendy Williams’ demeanor as it is portrayed in Lifetime doc Where is Wendy Williams?.

Last week, Williams’ team revealed that the famed broadcaster has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, a rare nervous system syndrome. In the past, the 59-year-old has been open about her battle with Graves’ Disease and Lymphedema, as well as other health-related issues.

The aforementioned documentary showed Williams snapping at her caretakers, including calling them “dumbass,” asking her nail tech, “are you stupid,” and yelling at various members of her team.

“That documentary was very triggering for me as someone who worked with Wendy for three years,” detailed the 45-year-old. “I saw people saying dementia was causing her to talk to people like that. No, y’all shut the hell up. Y’all don’t know what y’all talking about that had nothing to do with dementia.”

He continued to share, “I was looking at those moments and said, ‘There goes Wendy.'”

According to the Mayo Clinic, complications of primary progressive aphasia include blunted emotions, such as a lack of empathy, poor judgment, or inappropriate social behavior.

Where is Wendy Williams? debuted on Lifetime earlier this month to mixed reviews on social media. After its release, producers explained the project would not have moved forward if they had been aware of Williams’ diagnosis. The former host’s publicist, Shawn Zanotti, feels that Williams was “being exploited.”

“At a certain point, we were more worried about what would happen if we stopped filming than if we continued,” detailed producer Mark Ford.

“We tried to be as transparent as possible, and the making of the film is as much a story in some ways as Wendy’s story itself. And that’s why we intentionally left a lot of the questions in — we wanted people to understand the journey of the filmmakers and how upsetting it was for all of us in certain instances and also how outrageous in some ways the situations were […] But, of course, if we had known that Wendy had dementia going into it, no one would’ve rolled a camera.”

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