Serena Williams said that she nearly died while giving birth to her daughter, Olympia, after developing blood clots in her lungs.
She further added that since then she lives in fear of blood clots, which had left her scarred during the distressing post-natal ordeal in September last year.
The 23-time Champion also revealed that she had an emergency Cesarean section surgery after her increased heart rate during contractions. However, the surgery was successful.
“I almost died after giving birth to my daughter,” Serena as writing in an op-ed piece.
“But what followed just 24 hours after giving birth were six days of uncertainty,” she added.
Serena had said that during her post-natal ordeal, she suffered a pulmonary embolism — when blood clots block one or more arteries in the lungs.
Serena has had a scrape with death from blood clots.
