I’m writing letter to my dad King Richard after finding my son’s body following his tragic suicide
KING Richard’s daughter – the half-sister of tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams – is penning a letter to her estranged father after finding her son’s dead body when he killed himself.
Sabrina Williams, who previously opened up to The Sun about the family’s bitter feud, lost her youngest son Alphonse, on February 3 after a suspected drug overdose.
She revealed the 21-year-old was suffering from severe depression after a recent diagnosis of Peyronie’s disease, which causes the curvature of the penis.
Sabrina told The Sun: “As far as my other sisters, Serena and Venus, my dad, since my son passed away, they’re dead to me.
“Life is too short, my son is gone. If you don’t want to be in my life, that’s fine, you’re dead [to me].
“God bless their souls. I don’t even care if I meet my dad again.
“I just want to send a letter to say, ‘I love you, you lost your grandson that you never met. He was your blood’. I just want to send it.
“Otherwise, they’re dead to me. They don’t care that my son’s dead.”
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She recalled the moment she found her son’s dead body after opening the door to his bedroom when he didn’t answer her text.
“I opened the door to his room and he had taken his life that night,” she said.
“I tried doing CPR.
“When I found him, he looked beautiful, he’s a handsome boy.”
She says her estranged dad Richard, 80, and Serena and Venus never showed any interest in Alphonse.
Sabrina, who claims her dad walked out when she was a child, is the sporting duo’s half-sister from Richard’s first marriage to her mom Betty Johnson.
Despite giving up on trying to establish contact with her estranged relatives, she still wants to write to her elderly father – who is understood to be in bad health living in Florida after two strokes.
She previously blasted him as a serial philanderer who may have numerous secret sons and daughters across the US.
He is portrayed by actor Will Smith in the Oscar-nominated movie King Richard, with the film’s storyline only focusing on how he made daughters Serena and Venus into tennis superstars.
Sabrina also slammed the movie and said actor Smith should be ashamed of himself for appearing in the film which does not tell the full story – and ignores her dad’s past.
In Richard’s absence, Sabrina’s mom Betty had to look after six kids, including one from a previous relationship, who went from “having food to no food,” which his daughter says led to an eating disorder.
Sabrina accidentally bumped into Richard when he was with her tennis half-siblings at Knott’s Berry Farm theme park in California in the late nineties – the only time she’s met, Serena or Venus.
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He promised to keep in touch, but it never materialized, and the number he gave was out of order, so Sabrina then returned to the comfort blanket of bad eating habits.
Sabrina explained: “Alphonse always said: ‘Why do you really need those people in your life? Why are you doing that to yourself? They don’t want you in theirs.’
“Those were my son’s words. And now I’m going to live life to those words. He was absolutely right. 100 percent.
“They were really never relatives and they’re definitely not family. They have no importance.
“I’m not going to try to find them anymore. It’s over. It’s done.”
Alphonse, who also had bipolar disorder, is believed to have taken an overdose of unknown medication.
His autopsy results have not yet been released.
Now Sabrina, who’s a trained hospice chaplain, wants to return to making mental health podcasts and YouTube videos, and help people first-hand suffering from mental crises.
She says: “I’m going back to my podcast, to YouTube, I just want to be able to talk to people. I have an opportunity to save other lives.
“If I can touch one life, and that one person touches another life, it’s a ripple effect, it can be a beautiful thing.”
