Yetunde Price and Serena Williams.Photo: SGranitz/WireImage
The upcoming film aboutSerena and Venus Williams' family has the tennis icons reflecting on losing their older sister.
During Wednesday’sepisodeof Facebook Watch’sRed Table Talkwith hostWill Smith, Venus, Serena and their sisters Lyndrea and Isha Price spoke about the new movie,King Richard, in which Smith portrays family patriarch and tennis coach Richard Williams.
“I think I cried the whole time. Whenever she came on film, I just — personally, I just started, like — I mean, even still,” Serena recounted.
Their mother, Oracene Price — who was also part of theRed Table Talkinterview — added of Yetunde’s portrayal, “It was a quiet moment I think. ‘Cause we know how it was, and then how it — you know, it just — it was just something that you kind of try and put in the back of your mind and don’t want to remember.”
Yetunde, a 31-year-old mother of three at the time of her death, was a nurse and the owner of a hair salon, according to a previous PEOPLE report. She also worked as a personal assistant to her tennis superstar half-sisters. (Yetunde’s father was Yusef Rasheed.)
Maxfield allegedly opened fire with an assault weapon on Price’s SUV, with her boyfriend behind the wheel, as they traveled near a suspected drug house.
He pleaded no contest in 2006 to voluntary manslaughter in Price’s death. He had been charged with murder but accepted the lesser count before his third trial,following two mistrials. (A no-contest plea essentially has the same effect as a guilty plea, but the defendant does not admit the accusations against them.)
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Maxfield was sentenced in April 2006 to 15 years in prison,theLos Angeles Timesreported, and he was paroled in March 2018, according to state corrections officials.
During the interview, Lyndrea said that she misses Yetunde, teasing, “I could tell on Isha with her. Isha was so bossy, and I’d be like, ‘Tunde.’ "
Isha chimed in, “First of all, I’m not bossy. I am not bossy!” as her sister continued, recounting saying, " ‘Tunde, get her. Can you get Isha, please?’ And Tunde would be like, ‘I’m on it.’ "
Overall, Venus said, Yetunde just “loved to have fun.” She added, “She knew how to have fun.”
source: people.com
