In a new interview, Serena Williams is opening up about the three major surgeries she's have over the past few years and the game changing blood clot that nearly end her career and her life.
Get the deets inside and find out what Jordin Sparks is doing for the Peope To People program inside......
We've seen Serena go through a lot lately both on and off the court, and in a very revealing discussion, she's now talking about her life before and after the blood clot surgery that nearly killed her.
Though the details do remain a little unclear, to make a long story short, Serena had two operations on her right foot and developed a blood clot after the second operation. It's the blood clot that nearly killed her and ended her career.
While talking at a press conference during the Aegon International tennis tournament in Eastbourne yesterday, Serena opened up about the surgery to remove a blood clot on her lung.
'It has been a totally different road because I've had some serious health problems and I was literally on my deathbed at one point.
'The doctors said that I had several clots bilaterally in both lungs. They said if they had caught it two days later, it could have been a lot more serious, possibly career-ending.
'A lot of people die from it because you don't recognise it. I couldn't breathe. I honestly just thought I was out of shape and needed to get on the treadmill or hit the elliptical (cross-trainer).'It was my physio who forced me to go to the hospital whereas I was actually on the way to a party. She said, "No, you need to go to the hospital". I'm glad I didn't go to that party.'
After it was all over, the reality of what was going on sat in and she wasn't happy....
"After it was all over, there were a few days when I didn't get out of bed. So much had happened to me and I couldn't understand why. I was thinking, "Just what didn't I do or what did I do to deserve this?" '
'We were leaving the restaurant, I was walking and then I felt something. I just stepped back and said, "Oh, that really hurts". There was a massive pool of blood. I was like, "Oh my gosh."'I ended up fainting because I lost so much blood. I ended up getting stitches in both feet. One was on top and one was on the bottom of my other foot. It sliced right through my ligament. I didn't know that, I just knew that my toe was hanging low."
She continued....
'The second surgery on my foot was way tougher than the first, especially mentally. More mentally tough than anything I have been through in my life outside of my sister's passing (her eldest sister Yetunde Price was shot dead in 2003).'I was in a cast for 20 weeks. I'd rather have been in jail for 20 weeks because I really hated that cast. Having your foot in one position so long, not moving it, not being able to walk or do a lot of things caused a lot of the problems.
'After it was all over, there were a few days when I didn't get out of bed. So much had happened to me and I couldn't understand why. I was thinking, "Just what didn't I do or what did I do to deserve this?" '
But on a happier note, she's happy to be back playing. She later said,
'I'm just excited to be here and playing. I hope tennis has missed Venus and me.
'If tennis has missed us half as much as we've missed tennis, we're in a good place. This is a comeback that's totally different from any other comeback.'
And how's the comeback going? Very well. Serena won her first match since 2010 today during her first round at Eastbourne.
Also in the news......
While at the Camart Studio in NYC, Jordin Sparks was announced as a Student Ambassador for the People To People Ambassador Program.
Jordin was in NYC earlier today performing on "Live With Regis And Kelly."
Cute!
Photos via Wireimage/Glikas
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