Serena Williams recounts date idea that woke up ‘traumatic’ memories: I was crying

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Serena Williams told a very interesting story but also made a deeply honest admission on the second episode of her podcast with Venus as the former 23-time Grand Slam champion admitted to being “traumatized” by guns following the tragic death of her half-sister Yetunde Price.

In 2003, Yetunde Price was only 31 years old when she was killed in a drive-by shooting in Compton. To make it even more tragic, she was an innocent victim caught in the crossfire of a drug-related incident.

During this past US Open, the Williams sisters made some big news when they announced they were starting a podcast. On the latest episode of the Stocktoon Street podcast, Serena decided to tell about the time she was seeing a cop, who figured out that taking her to a gun range would be a good date idea. Not only that the American tennis icon didn’t enjoy the date, but it also woke up some traumatic memories.

Serena Williams: When I heard a gunshot, I started crying… It was very traumatic

“So I went on a second date with him, and he took me to a gun range. And I didn’t know, I had trauma because if you know the Williams sisters’ story, you know there was five of us. Now there’s four of us because one (Yetunde Price) passed through gun violence back in 2003. So when this cop took me on the date, like, I can’t be around guns. To this day, I still can’t even see guns,” Serena said.

“They have this thing you can shoot, and he pulls out a gun. And there’s a target, and he starts shooting at the target. I go straight back to Compton, what do you do when you hear a gunshot? You drop, and you stay low, and I started commando crawling, I was crying! It was very traumatic.”

Before her tragic death, Yetunde Price worked as a personal assistant to the Williams sisters, who were at the time widely regarded as one of the best in the game.