A top neurologist says Wendy Williams does not have the degenerative brain disease frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Wendy was first diagnosed with FTD and progressive aphasia in 2023. Her diagnosis was the basis of her guardianship.
She underwent a second round of neurological tests earlier this year. And again she was diagnosed with FTD and progressive aphasia.
Sources tell TMZ that Wendy recently completed a third battery of cognitive tests, and a neurologist concluded she does not have FTD.
The neurologist provided Wendy’s legal team with the test results late last month. Her legal team will present the new test results to a judge in a bid to challenge the guardianship.
The former talk show host has been under restrictive guardianship in an assisted living facility for nearly 3 years.
Only recently has she been allowed to leave the facility to go on outings with friends.
The new test results doesn’t mean Wendy doesn’t have dementia. There are different forms of dementia. FTD is just one type.
FTD gets progressively worse. But there are other types of dementia that never worsen.
Patients diagnosed with mild forms of dementia are able to perform activities of daily living such as cooking, cleaning, bathing and dressing themselves.
But their dementia causes mild memory loss, and clouds their judgment. Medication improves their symptoms.
