Many fans have been asking, “Where is Wendy Williams?” after the release of a two-part documentary about her life this past February. Recently, some answers have emerged.

For the first time, Williams, 60, was spotted in public following the announcement of her health and legal troubles earlier this year.

A business in Newark, New Jersey recently shared that the former host of “The Wendy Williams Show,” who hasn’t posted on social media since 2022, visited their store to buy herbal supplements and holistic health products.

Víctor Bowman, the owner of the shop Bolingo Balance, posted photos of Williams and her 24-year-old son, Kevin Hunter Jr., on Instagram and Facebook. In his Facebook post, Bowman wrote, “Wendy Williams came to my store. Much love, Queen.”

Hunter Jr. left an Instagram comment filled with emojis, likely expressing his hopes for his mother’s health, such as “🙏🏽📈🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽.”

This was the first time Williams had been photographed in public since her team disclosed in February that she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Shortly after, her declining health was explored in the documentary “Where Is Wendy Williams?”

The docuseries depicts Williams facing health challenges and eventually entering a treatment facility. Her family discusses her dementia diagnosis and advocates for changes to the guardianship arrangement established in 2022.

What conditions was Wendy Williams diagnosed with?

In the documentary, Hunter claimed his mother was experiencing “alcohol-induced” dementia, explaining, “They basically said that because she was drinking so much, it was starting to affect her thinking and brain functions.”

However, her diagnosis, communicated through her team’s February press release, cited primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

As detailed by Alzheimers.gov, frontotemporal dementia involves modifications in behavior and thinking, such as language, movement, and emotions, which stem from disorders that progressively harm the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes. The exact cause remains “not yet fully understood.”

Aphasia, defined by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, is a condition that hampers one’s ability to express and comprehend language, in addition to reading and writing, due to injury to one or more language areas in the brain, which can happen as a result of a stroke, brain injury, tumor, or a progressive neurological disorder.

Wendy Williams was under constant medical supervision, according to her guardian

In the documentary, Williams’ family also voiced their concerns about the court’s decision to appoint a guardian in 2022 to manage her finances, expressing a preference for a family member to take on this role.

In February, it became known that Williams had a temporary guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, an attorney specializing in guardianships. Morrissey filed a lawsuit against A+E Network to stop the release of “Where Is Wendy Williams?” She argued that Williams “was not, and is not, capable of consenting to the contract’s terms for filming the documentary.”

According to Morrissey’s filing, Williams was “under 24-hour medical care and supervision” at that time.

Morrissey, who had seen the trailer for the unreleased documentary but not the full project, claimed that it takes advantage of Williams’ medical status to portray her in a degrading and misleading way.

In response, an attorney for A+E Networks argued that Morrissey’s attempts to block the documentary only arose after witnessing the depiction of Williams’ guardianship in the trailer.

Despite this, Lifetime, under A&E Networks, went ahead and aired “Where Is Wendy Williams?” on February 24 and 25 after a judge ruled that preventing it from being shown would violate the First Amendment. The case is still ongoing in New York.

In late 2021, the show “Wendy” faced multiple production setbacks and rotated various guest hosts during its run.

Ultimately, “Wendy” was canceled in 2022 following Williams’ medical leave due to her battle with the autoimmune condition Graves’ disease. Since then, she has kept a low profile.

Contributing: Brendan Morrow