Serena Williams’ half-sister is writing bombshell book about ‘King Richard’ and says she can’t watch film. SERENA Williams’ half-sister is writing a bombshell book about her estranged father ‘King Richard’ after he ‘abandoned her’ as a child – and says she still can’t bring herself to watch the Hollywood movie.
The tennis ace’s estranged sibling Sabrina, who has slammed producers for not including details of her father’s first family, still can’t watch it after being told of its narrative. She previously opened up about her decades-long struggle with mental health issues and her battle with an eating disorder after her dad left her aged eight.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, she said: “I have 30 pages already written of the book, there’s nothing that’s going to stop me now. “I’m hoping that I can get it all written by June of next year and be able to find a publisher and get it done. “I dare anybody to come up and tell me that I’m taking the light away from this movie when, all I’m trying to do, is find good from a deadbeat dad.”
Talking about not wanting to see the film, she admitted: “There’s a part of me scared to watch it because it may make me angry, upset or sad. “To be truthful, I don’t want to re-live what’s been happening for the last 40 years and see it flashing on the screen, even if it’s just for a second.
“I want to be honest, when this movie came out, I did have some chocolate cake, then after the second slice, I was eating into another bite, I said: ‘You need to stop and go to bed, get to sleep.’ think it was because I was denying some of my emotions – some of my friends trying to tell me how I’m feeling, I didn’t argue with them, I just said I’m fine, but I wasn’t. I got tired of people telling me to go see the movie.”
Sabrina went on: “I don’t want any of that, I don’t want to get sad. I’ve dealt with those emotions. Why am I going to torment myself by trying to do that, again? “I’ve already been tormented in my mind. It’s now just time for me to keep moving. I don’t need to entertain it.”
She then jokes: “Besides, I’m too cheap, I’m not spending money on that movie.” The Sun has reached out to Richard’s lawyer for comment. After suffering such trauma as children, Sabrina and her siblings aren’t close, they’ve all had their own ways of dealing with life’s issues.
Richard married Sabrina’s late mom Betty Johnson in Los Angeles in the early 1960s.
They had four other children – Richard III, 56, Ronner, 55, Reluss, 54, and Reneeka, 49. Richard married Serena and Venus’ mom Oracene before they divorced in 2002 amid allegations of domestic abuse, which he vehemently denied.
The movie has made Sabrina closer to one family member, ‘baby brother’ Reluss, 54, who reached out on Thanksgiving Day after seeing her brave story published by The US Sun.
