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(NewsNation) — Wendy Williams' lawyer tells NewsNation that a caller leak of her aesculapian study was not astir medicine, but "manipulation," alleging it was her guardian's doing.
Joe Tacopina joined "Banfield" connected Tuesday nighttime to sermon the leak, which reportedly showed erstwhile diagnoses that the erstwhile speech amusement big has dementia were accurate, according to People.
Tacopina disputes this notion, suggesting nary specified aesculapian investigating has taken place.
Less rights than a felon: Attorney
Williams, 61, was seen extracurricular the edifice Tucci successful New York City connected Saturday night, walking arm-in-arm with restaurateur Max Tucci, erstwhile she concisely spoke to Page Six about her latest wellness update.
Last week, the erstwhile speech amusement host’s guardianship was upheld by a justice aft she was diagnosed again with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia, according to People magazine. She was archetypal diagnosed with FTD and aphasia successful 2023.
Williams has been successful a controversial court-ordered guardianship since May 2022, arsenic conversations proceed to circulate astir her health. In 2022, Sabrina Morrissey was appointed Williams’ conservator.
Williams initially wanted to beryllium placed successful a conservatorship but didn’t recognize “her full beingness would beryllium taken away,” People reported successful March.
"She has little rights than a convicted felon nether probation, and that, to me, is the scariest portion of this full thing," Tacopina told NewsNation.
Williams' aesculapian study is simply a 'lie'
Tacopina added that the expected leaked aesculapian study is simply a "lie" and called it a "disgrace."
"Where is this study erstwhile nary one's seen the study due to the fact that it's not accurate? She hasn't completed her aesculapian diagnosis. I've spoken to her guardianship," helium said.
"It's not astir medicine. It's astir manipulation. It's a limb being utilized by those who profit. I'll beryllium rather blunt, nett from keeping Wendy nether this maltreatment of guardianship situation."
Tacopina suggested if the leak was real, it would beryllium a HIPPA usurpation and urged those liable to travel guardant with impervious of a aesculapian report.
He alleged the idiosyncratic culpable was Morrissey, Williams' conservator.
"Let's telephone a spade a spade, and I'm not acrophobic to judge work for my words. Of course, it's Sabrina Morissey. Of people it's the guardian. Who other would leak? Who other would leak a uncovering that supports her position, you know?"
Wendy Williams is 'doing great'
"She's doing great. I mean, I'm truthful perplexed by this," Tacopina said of his client's health. "She is successful power for faculties arsenic anyone other I talk to connected a regular basis.
"Aside from the information that she doesn't person her liberties, her freedom, her quality dignity that's been stripped from her, she's good arsenic a quality being. She understands what's going on, and she conscionable wants her beingness back."
NewsNation's Teddy Grant contributed to this report.
