The FBI on Wednesday provided additional details about would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ activity before and during the July 13 campaign rally that left one man dead.
While the FBI has not established a definitive motive for the shooter or any co-conspirators with advanced knowledge of the attack, Kevin Rojek, special agent in charge of the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office, told reporters during a press call that Crooks had “a sustained detailed effort to plan an attack on some event, meaning he looked at any number of events or targets.”
The 20-year-old gunman “became hyper-focused” on Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when it was announced in early July. He had no identifiable political ideology, Rojek added.
Over the month leading up to the attack, Crooks made more than 60 searches related to both President Biden and former President Trump. In late September 2023, an account associated with Crooks “searched the former president’s campaign schedule and upcoming appearances in Pennsylvania,” Rojek said.
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“Next, from April of 2024 through July 12, the subject searched campaign events for both former President Trump and President Biden, including events scheduled to take place in western Pennsylvania,” Rojek said. “Specifically on July 4, 2024, the subject searched for details of the former president’s campaign event in Butler.
On July 6, Crooks searched for specific details about Trump’s event in Butler.
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“The subject registered to attend the rally, and that same day he specifically searched for, ‘How far was Oswald from Kennedy?’ ‘Where will Trump speak from at Butler Farm Show,’ ‘Butler Farm show podium,’ and ‘Butler Farm show photos,'” Rojek further explained. “On July 8, the subject search ‘AGR international.’ And on July 10, he searched ‘weather in Butler,’ and the 30 days prior to the attack, the subject conducted more than 60 searches related to President Biden and former President Trump.”
He also noted “specific searches conducted on July 5 to include, ‘When is the DNC convention?’ and ‘When is the RNC in 2024?’”
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The FBI confirmed that Crooks was seen walking outside the rally perimeter by a row of vendors at 4:26 p.m. on July 13, about an hour and a half before Trump began speaking.
Video footage from a local business showed Crooks climbing up the American Glass Research (AGR) building and then traversing multiple rooftops between 6:05 and 6:08.
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Our overall finding is the subject was only on the roof for approximately six minutes prior to the shooting. Between 6:05 and 6:11 p.m.,” when he was neutralized, Rojek said, later refuting rumors that there was a second shooter.
The day of the rally, Crooks flew a drone for 11 minutes, between3:51 p.m. and 4:02 p.m., Rojek told Fox News Digital.
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The FBI’s observations from the drone’s flight path show it “would have been helpful for our subject to assess the security posture at the event,” the special agent-in-charge said.
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“However, we will never be able to determine the exact motivation for why the subject flew the drone,” Rojek added. “We can only do that based on our assessment of the flight path and what we’re able to determine through our analysis by the lab.”
Brittany Mahomes not backing down amid Trump support controversy
Brittany Mahomes, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, has recently hinted at support for Donald Trump and then defended her stance on social media. She delivered more on that topic Wednesday.
The 28-year-old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model and former college soccer player appeared to like several comments on her most recent Instagram post that indicated support for Trump.
One of the comments she liked said “TRUMP-VANCE 2024.”
The other comment referenced her recent social media activity that has suggested support for Trump and drawn backlash from those who do not support the former president. That comment said, “Glad to see you aren’t backing down. We are all entitled to our own opinions and shouldn’t be bullied into submission.”
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Kelly Stafford, the wife of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, appeared to like the second comment.
TMZ Sports and the New York Daily News both caught Mahomes’ likes. By Wednesday evening, it appeared Mahomes had unliked those comments.
Mahomes first indicated her support for Trump Aug. 13 when she liked Trump’s Instagram post that outlined the “2024 GOP platform.”
The like ignited a firestorm of backlash against the wife of the superstar quarterback. Among the critics were fans of Taylor Swift, who dates Chiefs star Travis Kelce. Multiple fan pages dedicated to Swift posted the screenshots of the like on social media, condemning Mahomes.
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The model responded to the criticisms on her Instagram story Friday.
“I mean honestly, To be a hater as an adult, you have to have some deep rooted issues you refuse to heal from childhood,” she wrote. “There’s no reason your brain is fully developed and you hate to see others doing well.”
She posted another cryptic message on her social media that may have referenced her recent controversy on Monday.
“Contrary to the tone of the world today….you can disagree with someone, and still love them. You can have differing views, and still be kind,” she wrote Aug. 26. “Read that again!”
Patrick Mahomes has never publicly expressed support for a political figure or affiliation.
He told Time in April he would not speak about who he would vote for in the upcoming election.
“I don’t want to pressure anyone to vote for a certain president,” Patrick said. “I want people to use their voice, whoever they believe in. I want them to do the research.”
Brittany’s recent social media activity drew praise from conservative political commentator Candace Owens, who defended the NFL wife in an episode of the “Candace” podcast this week.
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“Brittany Mahomes has an attitude. She doesn’t care [that social media is angry], and I am here for it,” Owens said.
“Let someone like a post, which they’re allowed to do because it’s an election, and you are not required to vote one way or the other. And that’s what Brittany Mahomes did. She sure stepped in it. She apparently liked a Trump post.”
Brittany and Patrick were born in eastern Texas and grew up there. They started dating when they attended Whitehouse High School in Whitehouse, Texas, when Patrick was the school’s quarterback and Brittany played soccer. Whitehosue is a town with a population of about 8,500 and has a history of voting Republican, according to Data USA.
Patrick Mahomes has donated $500 to the NFL Players Association’s political action committee, according to Open Secrets. The NFLPA donated $45,000 to Democrats and $35,000 to Republicans, the site says.
While support for former President Trump has held steady, Vice President Kamala Harris has improved on President Biden’s 2024 election numbers in four battleground states, driven by strong support among women, Black voters and young voters. In addition, while Trump leads on top issues, more voters see Harris as the one who can unite the country — and who will “fight for people like you.” That’s according to new Fox News statewide surveys in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.
Each survey includes about 1,000 registered voters and was conducted Aug. 23-26, post-Democratic National Convention and just after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. dropped out and endorsed Trump.
The surveys, released Wednesday, find a close, two-way Harris-Trump race: Harris is up by 1 percentage point in Arizona and by 2 points in Georgia and Nevada, while Trump is ahead by 1 point in North Carolina. All are within the margin of sampling error.
In past Fox News surveys, Biden trailed Trump in each state: by 5 points in both Arizona and Nevada (June), by 6 in Georgia (April) and by 5 points in North Carolina (February).
The new surveys find Trump achieves his 2020 vote percentage in the head-to-head race in every state except Georgia, while Harris meets or exceeds Biden’s 2020 vote share across the states.
In 2020, Trump won North Carolina by just over 1 point, while Biden narrowly won the other three states (Arizona and Georgia by less than 1 point and Nevada by over 2 points).
Overall, in an average of the four states, Harris is ahead of Trump by a single point in the two-way match-up, 50% to 49%. That 1-point Harris edge also holds among the 7 in 10 voters who say they are extremely motivated to cast a ballot this year.
“These results show Harris has succeeded at expanding the electoral map. When Biden was at the top of the ticket, the only pathway to an electoral college victory for the Democrat ticket was a sweep of the blue wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania,” says Democratic pollster Chris Anderson. “That’s no longer the case with these Sun Belt states in play.” Anderson and Republican Daron Shaw makeup the bipartisan team that conducts Fox News surveys.
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Harris receives 79% support among Black voters, 56% among Hispanics, 55% among those under age 30 and 51% among voters ages 65 and over. These numbers represent an improvement on Biden’s numbers in these Sun Belt states and approach what he ultimately achieved in 2020, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis election survey.
There is a 22-point gender gap, as women prefer Harris by 11 points and men back Trump by 11.
Trump is carrying 65% of Whites without a college degree, 60% of rural voters and 42% of Hispanics — about the same as in 2020. He’s at 77% among White evangelical Christians, down from 83%. Yet his support among Black voters has nearly tripled, from 7% to 19%.
Democrats are a touch more likely to back Harris (96%) than Republicans are to support Trump (94%), while independents favor Harris by 6 points. Equal numbers of Trump’s 2020 supporters stick with him (94%) as Biden’s 2020 backers favor Harris (94%).
Harris is ahead by 8 points among voters who moved to their state in the last 10 years, while the much larger group of longtime residents prefers Trump by 1 point.
Among new voters (those who haven’t voted in a general election since before 2016), Harris is up by 1 point.
When third-party candidates Chase Oliver, Jill Stein and Cornel West are included in the voter preference, Harris keeps her 1-point edge over Trump, 48%-47%. Notably, three out of four voters with a favorable view of Kennedy back Trump.
By a 7-point margin, more voters see Harris as the candidate who will unite the country. Most Democrats (94%) feel that way, as do over half of independents (52%) and a handful of Republicans (9%).
Voters are more divided over who will “fight for people like you,” as 50% say Harris and 47% Trump. And despite Harris being the incumbent vice president, voters put her on par with Trump for “bringing needed change” (49% Harris, 48% Trump).
“Harris’ campaign has accomplished something that seemed impossible three weeks ago: she is seen as the change candidate despite being the incumbent vice president at a time when there is considerable anxiety about the state of the country and the administration’s ratings are dismal,” says Shaw. “For the moment, they have re-made what was a re-election campaign for Biden into a referendum on Trump.”
More voters trust Trump on two of the three top issues, the economy and immigration, while Harris has a wide lead on abortion. She’s also favored on health care, while Trump is the choice to handle the Israel-Hamas war. In general, Trump’s issue leads have narrowed compared to his standing earlier this year, while Harris has expanded on Biden’s advantages.
Four voters in 10 say the economy will be the most important issue in their vote for president. Immigration and abortion are next, but they trail the economy by nearly 30 points. All other issues are in the single digits.
The Democratic ticket performs better on personal favorability ratings, as more Sun Belt voters view Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz favorably than unfavorably by 3 points, while Harris has a net negative rating by 1 point. The ratings for both Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance are underwater by 5 points. About 1 in 10 have never heard of Walz or Vance. Views of both Harris and Trump in these states are nearly identical to what they were in the 2020 Fox News Voter Analysis.
Ratings of Biden’s job performance are negative: 42% of voters approve and 58% disapprove. Among the 13% who “somewhat” disapprove of Biden’s job performance, Harris is up by 7 points over Trump in the two-way contest.
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“Campaigns experience a bump in poll numbers after their convention and that typically dissipates in the month following — and that could be what happens here, but this isn’t a traditional campaign,” says Anderson. “A lot of people thought Harris received a bump after Biden dropped out, but that has endured.”
Democrats in down-ballot races outpace Harris, while Republicans trail Trump
In down-ballot races in Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, the Democratic candidate leads by double digits, overperforming Harris by at least 5 points, while the Republican candidate trails Trump by 7 or more. In the Arizona Senate race, Democrat Ruben Gallego leads Republican Kari Lake by 56%-41%. Democrat Jacky Rosen bests Republican Sam Brown by 55%-41% in the Nevada Senate race. In the North Carolina gubernatorial race, Democrat Josh Stein tops Republican Mark Robinson by 54%-43%.
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In Arizona & Nevada, three-quarters favor abortion referendum
Arizona and Nevada will have ballot initiatives on abortion rights this November. The surveys show three-quarters of voters in each state will vote yes. That includes at least half of Republicans (50% in Arizona and 54% in Nevada). Among the only ones against the initiatives are self-defined “very” conservative.
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More Fox News survey results can be found here.
The Fox News Poll is conducted under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R). The battleground surveys were conducted Aug. 23-26, and included 4,053 registered voters randomly selected from statewide voter files in Arizona (1,014), Georgia (1,014), Nevada (1,026) and North Carolina (999). In Arizona and Nevada, respondents were given the option of completing the interview in English or Spanish. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines and cellphones or completed the survey online after receiving a text. Results based on the combined sample have a margin of sampling error of ±1.5 percentage points, while for each individual state it is ±3 percentage points. The sampling error is higher among subgroups. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education and area variables to ensure the demographics are representative of the registered voter population. In the combined results, each state is weighted proportionate to its share of the total number of registered voters across the four states.
Cameraman captures awkward moment at US Open — and now it’s going viral
A U.S. Open fan’s awkward interaction in the stands during a match between Frances Tiafoe and Aleksandar Kovacevic went viral on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning.
The cameras at Louis Armstrong Stadium had a break in the action when Tiafoe went up 30-0 on Kovacevic in the second set with the two competitors tied 1-1. The broadcast then showed a man returning to his seat with two Honey Deuce drinks – the signature cocktail of the U.S. Open. One of them was presumably for the woman sitting next to him.
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However, a man sitting behind him handed the same woman a cocktail – perhaps thwarting the man’s attempt to woo another bystander.
The moment quickly became a viral moment with sports fans talking about it on X.
Tiafoe won the match 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.
The U.S. Open is one of the more interesting places where super viral moments have occurred recently.
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On the court, Novak Djokovic was “defaulted” for hitting a linesman with a ball during a match. Serena Williams played her last matches at the Grand Slam event.
Off the court, Megan Lucky became a viral name when she showed off her beer-chugging skills at a few of the most recent U.S. Opens. She received some endorsement deals from the moment.
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Alexa Greenfield also became a viral sensation when she dipped her chicken tenders into her soda. It earned her a signature sauce.
Actress hasn’t spoken to her parents in nearly 30 years after their warning about Hollywood
“Austin Powers” star Heather Graham hasn’t spoken to her parents in almost 30 years.
Graham recalled leaving home at 18 to move to West Hollywood, California, to follow her dreams of becoming part of the entertainment industry. At the time, her father warned her that Hollywood would “claim [her] soul.”
“He regularly told me that the entertainment industry was evil and that Hollywood would claim my soul,” Graham said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. She noted that her parents “were part of a generation that didn’t believe in therapy or discussing personal things, so I never felt I could talk to them.”
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Following the premiere of her movie “License to Drive” in 1988, Graham knew it was time to move out of her parents’ home.
“When the movie came out, I was 18, living at home had become more difficult,” she said. “I said to myself, ‘I’ve got to get out of here, I’ve got to be successful, and I’ve got to be a movie star.’”
“He regularly told me that the entertainment industry was evil and that Hollywood would claim my soul.”
Graham continued, “I found an apartment in West Hollywood with another girl from high school — a working model who was also investing in real estate on the side. Living with her was freeing.”
When Graham was 9 years old, her family relocated from Virginia to Agoura Hills, California. At the time, the actress felt that she went from being “popular” on the East Coast to not “fitting in” on the West Coast.
“In Virginia, I had a tomboy phase and loved exploring the woods. After we moved, I was isolated. You had to be driven everywhere. Without kids to play with in the street, I had fewer social interactions and grew insecure. I turned to books and read above my level,” she told the outlet.
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Graham graduated from high school with a 5.0 GPA and went on to study English at UCLA. After her junior year at the prestigious Southern California university, she decided to drop out to focus on her acting career.
At this time, Graham landed major roles in the films “Austin Powers” and “Swingers,” which made her realize she was “self-sufficient” and she began to reevaluate her relationship with her parents.
“I stopped talking to my parents when I was 25, and I’m estranged from them now,” Graham admitted. “My friends are proud of me, and I’m proud of myself. I have really good friends.”
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The 54-year-old actress is proud of the life she has created for herself. “I live in Los Angeles in a house I bought last year. I also have a loft in New York,” she said, noting that her West Coast home “has views of the Pacific.”
“I love the ocean,” she explained. “I also like sitting out back when writing or preparing for a movie. Nature is inspiring.”
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Graham wore multiple hats for her new film, “Chosen Family.” The actress wrote, directed and starred in the movie, which is set to bow in October. She stars alongside Nicolas Cage for her next project, “The Gunslingers,” which is due to be released in 2025.
Caitlin Clark laid out by Alyssa Thomas in Fever’s win over Sun
Indiana Fever rookie phenom Caitlin Clark has had her fair share of bumps and bruises throughout her first WNBA campaign, and she was roughed up a bit Wednesday night against the Connecticut Sun.
In the third quarter, Clark was trying to chase a Sun player when Connecticut center Alyssa Thomas laid her out with a pick on the perimeter.
Clark hit the court hard after making contact with Thomas’ right shoulder.
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The whistle was quickly blown for an offensive foul on Thomas, but that’s all it was, a common foul.
Clark has been the victim of flagrant fouls this season, both of which came against the Chicago Sky.
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The first was a check from Chennedy Carter, which made headlines in early June. Carter knocked Clark to the floor, and though it was initially called a common foul, the WNBA upgraded it to a flagrant foul.
Carter defended it after the game, calling it a “basketball play.”
Then Carter’s teammate, Angel Reese, another rookie star, hit Clark in the head on a block attempt in a different matchup with the Fever this season. Clark, again, hit the deck with force, and Reese was called for a flagrant foul after a review.
Like Carter, Reese said she was just making a basketball play.
Clark broke the WNBA rookie single-season record for 3-pointers in the first quarter Wednesday, hitting a stepback 26-footer over DiJonai Carrington for her first basket of the game.
While Clark has been busting through WNBA rookie records this season, the Fever collected a tough win over the Sun, 84-80.
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Indiana is 15-16, sitting in seventh place overall in the WNBA standings.
Former No. 1 NFL draft pick shares moment his football career went all wrong
Johnny Manziel still remembers the moment his football career went all wrong.
He remembers the lights and crowd of Radio City Music Hall in New York City on draft night 2014. He remembers the moment he walked on stage after getting drafted in the first round by the Cleveland Browns after a successful college career.
And more than anything else, he remembers the crippling depression that struck him afterward.
“I had the chance to walk across the stage at Radio City Music Hall and be a No. 1 draft pick in the NFL. I had everything in my life I could have ever wanted. I had money. I had fame. … And, for some reason, when I got there and I got everything that I wanted, I think that was truly the most empty I had ever felt inside,” Manziel said during a Q&A with students and recovery addicts at the annual VitAL health conference at the University of Alabama Monday in video obtained by Fox News Digital.
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“I think from there I started to really turn and isolate and focus on doing the wrong things, doing things that temporarily made me feel better, that temporarily made me happy. So, I learned slowly what depression was.”
At the time, Manziel was entering the NFL after two years of being one of the top stars in college football history. His two-year run at Texas A&M included a Heisman Trophy, a historically shocking win against Alabama, several broken records and a scandalous suspension for illegally signing autographs for money.
But his star dimmed quickly in Cleveland. Manziel checked into rehab in April 2015, just four months after the end of his rookie season. He was cut by the Browns in 2016, shortly after the end of his second season. His continued issues with alcohol and drugs reportedly factored heavily into his standing on the team.
Manziel says his drinking problems got worse when he struggled with football.
“As much as I loved football and as much as I was great at it, I think there was something else in college and high school that I got really good at, and that was partying,” Manziel said Monday. “I think, for me, as things started to go back in my football life, I turned to something else that I was really good at.”
Manziel’s NFL performance reflected the shift in his priorities. In just eight starts over two seasons, he went 2-6. His only two wins came in 2015 against a Tennessee Titans team that went 3-13 and a San Francisco 49ers team that went 5-11. Manziel finished with a career stat line of 1,675 yards passing yards with seven touchdowns, seven interceptions, a completion percentage of 57% and 22 sacks.
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Former Browns coach Mike Pettine, who was involved in the decision to draft Manziel, admitted to reporters in December 2015 that those problems weren’t visible to the Browns while the quarterback was still in college and that it seemed the team got a very different player than the one at Texas A&M.
“You see the reputation, what was out there,” Pettine said that year of Manziel’s pre-draft analysis. “I don’t think we anticipated his problems, his issues, how deep-rooted they were, the extent of it.”
The difference was Manziel had experienced depression after getting drafted by Cleveland.
In addition to alcohol, Manziel has said in the past that he lost 40 pounds in 2015 due to excessive use of cocaine.
In February 2018, during an interview with “Good Morning America,” however, Manziel said he was going fully sober.
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Manziel indicated on Monday in Alabama that he has been avoiding alcohol for some time now.
“Alcohol was detrimental and drugs were detrimental to where I was trying to go in my life. I really didn’t see that until it was too late. The way I view things and the way I look at things now, it doesn’t have a place in my life. It doesn’t serve me any better. I’m not any better by going out and drinking or doing drugs,” Manziel said.
“I’m looking to live a healthier, more pure lifestyle, and it took me a long time to get to that point.”
Manziel will be joining The Action Network’s “Big Bets on Campus” podcast as a college football analyst this week, the company announced Wednesday.
Former talk show host seen for first time in over a year after aphasia, dementia diagnoses
It’s been nearly a year and a half since Wendy Williams has been photographed out in public, and only six months since her team revealed the famous talk show host had been diagnosed with dementia and aphasia.
But last week, Williams, 60, resurfaced in New Jersey at a holistic shop. Accompanied by her son, Kevin Hunter Jr. Williams smiled for a photo with the store’s owner, which generated buzz online. The shop is frequented by Hunter Jr., who is a friend of the owner.
The store’s manager told Fox News Digital that Hunter Jr. “wanted to show [his mother] more about natural living…more about herbs.”
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He said Williams, who smiled for the photo-op with a bouquet of flowers, white moon boots and signature pink lipstick, was “bubbly” and “super friendly.”
“She was very, very strong, sharp in conversation. She was moving completely on her own,” he shared. “There was no concern of her physical status…as far as like, you know, being wobbly or anything.”
Admitting he wasn’t privy to her medical condition when she was inside the store, the manager told Fox News Digital he “was surprised” people had been inquiring about Williams’ health because “she seemed normal.”
A representative for Williams did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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In February, Williams’ team publicly shared the depths of her health struggles.
“As Wendy’s fans are aware, in the past she has been open with the public about her medical struggles with Graves’ Disease and Lymphedema as well as other significant challenges related to her health,” a public statement from her team read. Williams had taken several absences from her talk show, “The Wendy Williams Show,” beginning in 2017 after fainting on air. During an episode in 2019, she revealed she was living in a sober house.
“Over the past few years, questions have been raised at times about Wendy’s ability to process information and many have speculated about Wendy’s condition, particularly when she began to lose words, act erratically at times, and have difficulty understanding financial transactions,” the statement continued.
“In 2023, after undergoing a battery of medical tests, Wendy was officially diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Aphasia, a condition affecting language and communication abilities, and frontotemporal dementia, a progressive disorder impacting behavior and cognitive functions, have already presented significant hurdles in Wendy’s life.”
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Following the announcement, Williams expressed her appreciation for the outpouring of support, sharing in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, “I have immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received after sharing my diagnosis of Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Let me say, wow! Your response has been overwhelming. The messages shared with me have touched me, reminding me of the power of unity and the need for compassion. I hope that others with FTD may benefit from my story.”
“I want to also thank the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration for their kind words of support and their extraordinary efforts to raise awareness of FTD. I continue to need personal space and peace to thrive. Please just know that your positivity and encouragement are deeply appreciated,” she concluded.
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Williams has also spoken openly about her struggles with alcohol and drug abuse.