Wendy Williams' Medical Diagnosis: Explaining Primary Progressive Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia

Wendy Williams has frontotemporal dementia and aphasia

This week in celebrity news, Wendy Williams is diagnosed, Ruby Franke breaks down and Taylor Swift is in Sydney.

What is frontotemporal dementia? Here's what to know about Wendy Williams' diagnosis

Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Here is what to know about the disease.

Wendy Williams has aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. What are these diseases?

Wendy Wiliams has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a rare form of dementia, and aphasia, a communication disorder.

Alzheimer’s Foundation of America statement on Wendy Williams’ diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia

Wendy Williams during an interview with JusNik of WBLS at Circle of Sisters 2022. Credit: WBLS

Wendy Williams has frontotemporal dementia. What is FTD?

Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with a rare form of dementia called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD. It affects parts of the brain controlling behavior and language.

Wendy Williams' Medical Diagnosis: Explaining Primary Progressive Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia

Behavioral neurologist Dr. Mario F. Mendez answered E! News' questions about aphasia and dementia—and what living with this condition means for patients like Wendy Williams and their caretakers.