Wendy Williams documentary producers say they didn't know she had dementia while filming most scenes
The executive producers behind Lifetime's Wendy Williams documentary say they, too, were unnerved by some of what they saw while filming the former talk show host
If you watched Lifetime's Wendy Williams docuseries that premiered over the weekend and felt uncomfortable, you weren't alone.
“Where is Wendy Williams?” premiered over the weekend and featured numerous scenes of the former talk show host unsteady, belligerent, confused and also drunk. Her manager would regularly find liquor bottles hidden throughout her apartment, behavior that producers say unnerved them while filming. But they say they didn't know at the time that Williams had dementia, which the public learned late last week.
“We all became very concerned for her safety. To be honest, I was so concerned she would fall down the stairs and for numerous different reasons," said Erica Hanson, an executive producer who can be seen and heard speaking to Williams at certain moments in the series.
Hanson said soon after she and the filmmakers were told Williams had dementia by her son, they turned the cameras off.
