Tennis Superstars Serena and Venus Williams father suffers memory loss

Richard Williams, a 74 year old father of the world's Tennis superstars Serena and Venus Williams is experiencing critical memory loss as a result of the recent stroke he's been suffering from. Lakeisha Williams, his current wife, says that her husband is "not at 100%, and doesn’t wish to be bothered with anybody". 

Serena and Venus with their Dad

This situation is even more heart-wrenching because it’s apparent how much of an influence Richard had on his daughter’s careers. The crisis actually happened before Serena’s Wimbledon victory, but she succeeded in keeping it a secret and obviously not letting it affect her game. Here's what Lakeisha had to say about his condition ;

“His condition is fair – he’s up and walking around but he’s not at 100 percent,” she told Radar in an exclusive interview.

“He needs speech therapy, psychological therapy and physical therapy but for now he refused,” she said. “I’m trying to get him under control and relaxed so that when we come back from out of town we could try to get that going. But he doesn’t wish to be bothered with anybody.”

“His mind is thinking that they’re going to put him back in ‘prison’ – which is what he calls the hospital,” she said. “He thinks we are just going to take him back to the hospital, but that is not correct.”

“His mind is telling him that since he was once in charge of his life, after what’s happened he’s not accepting it. To him he’s a normal person – nothing happened to him,” she told Radar.

“We have to let nature take its course,” she said. “I’ve been with him a long time so I know what he’s trying to say. It’s like training yourself for your child – like a baby, you have to think for them.”

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