Retired tennis star Serena Williams clarifies that her Super Bowl LIX halftime show appearance with Kendrick Lamar was not a planned cameo but a result of a direct request from the rapper. Williams revealed that Lamar invited her to participate after being impressed by her C-walk at the 2012 Olympics. The tennis legend, who recently reemerged with the same dance move at Wimbledon 2023, called her Super Bowl performance 'the best 10 seconds of my life.'
All those fan theories about Serena Williams' Super Bowl LIX halftime show cameo appear to be wrong, according to the tennis legend herself. The retired athlete, who crip-walked during Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' verse during Sunday's big game, took part in the show simply because the rapper — who like Williams hails from Compton — asked her to.
The Wyn Beauty co-founder accompanied her Instagram post with a behind-the-scenes video of her game-day prep and other snippets from the performance, which she referred to as 'the best 10 seconds of my life.' Williams, 43, took heat back in 2012 for that very footwork after besting Maria Sharapova for the gold medal during the London Olympics. She did it again at Wimbledon in 2023. 'Man I did not crip walk like that at Wimbledon,' she joked in a separate video posted Sunday.
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