Healthcare Chair and firm Partner Harry J. Nelson was recently quoted in the Vanity Fair article titled, “Wendy Williams, Her Guardian, and the Age of Celebrity Conservatorship” by Dan Adler.
In the article, Nelson draws on his experience working with prescribing doctors whose celebrity patients died of opioid overdoses, including Michael Jackson and Prince, to provide insight on the challenges surrounding Wendy Williams’ conservatorship following her dementia diagnosis.
“There’s an aspect of self-preservation and guardians inherently become conservators of their own.” Nelson wrote, discussing care relationships established through conservatorships. “Obviously you don’t accept the responsibility without believing that you’re in an essential role.”
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