Serena Williams was planning to cross paths together with her good friend Taylor Swift on the 2025 Tremendous Bowl in February ― however she says she opted to carry off for a really relatable purpose.
Talking to Time after the outlet named her considered one of this 12 months’s 100 most influential folks this week, the tennis legend stated she’d hoped to safe Swift’s autograph for her 7-year-old daughter, Olympia, and even waited exterior of the pop famous person’s suite at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome.
However as the sport wore on and it turned clear that the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs would lose to the Philadelphia Eagles, Williams determined it might be finest to not hassle Swift, whose longtime boyfriend, Travis Kelce, is a good finish with the Chiefs.
“I’m such a mom. I was ready to go in here myself and be like, ‘Taylor, come get this girl,’” she recalled, including: “It’s hard when your team is losing. I totally get it.”
Williams, who made a shock look throughout Kendrick Lamar’s halftime present, nonetheless defended Swift in opposition to the refrain of boos she obtained when she appeared on a jumbotron throughout the sport.
“Why would you boo her?” she instructed Time. “That’s so mean. That’s just awful.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Williams shut down the implication she’d appeared at halftime to ship a message to Drake, whom she briefly dated in 2011. Lamar’s set included his controversial diss observe “Not Like Us,” during which he deems Drake a “certified pedophile” who ought to be “placed on neighborhood watch.”
“I would never do that,” she stated. “And that was sad, that anyone would ever think that. I respect how they could. Obviously I can see how someone would think that. But absolutely not. I have never had negative feelings towards him. We’ve known him for so many years.”
Earlier this week, Drake amended his preexisting lawsuit in opposition to Common Music Group over the track, claiming his repute has been broken by the label’s choice to permit Lamar to carry out it on the Tremendous Bowl.
