A STUNNING predication the father of tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams made when they were kids has been revealed in the trailer for a documentary about him.
On the Line: The Richard Williams Story premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year.
It will be introduced to audiences in the United Kingdom at the Sheffield DocFest this weekend, according to the event’s website.
“Do you think these kids will make $1million?” an interviewer asked Richard, now 81, in a vintage clip featured in the trailer posted to YouTube.
“There’s no question about it,” the father responded.
“They’ll make $1million look small.”
Richard Williams started training Serena and Venus to become tennis pros at just four years old.
In a different section of the same interview, Richard is asked what drove him to put so much time and effort into their training.
“I thought that I could live through my kids,” he said.
The documentary, which Richard’s son Chavoita LeSane helped produce, also explores his early years.
Richard grew up in the Cedar Grove section of Shreveport, Louisiana – about 200 miles east of Dallas – where he faced significant discrimination.
“All my life I had to be brave,” he said.
“I should have been dead by now.”
Although he left the Deep South, Richard and his daughters weren’t able to escape racism.
The documentary features a clip of the sisters being booed by an audience at a match.
“We had a lot of people that just didn’t get it,” tennis legend and social activist Billie Jean King said in the trailer.
“It was terrible. The world was not ready for Richard Williams.”
The documentary came out a year after actor Will Smith won an Oscar for his portrayal of the father in the biographical drama King Richard.
But the movie was overshadowed by Smith’s actions at the ceremony.
Before receiving the award, Smith slapped the host Chris Rock after he made a joke about the actor’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Meanwhile, Richard is currently in the middle of a bitter divorce battle with his wife Lakeisha Williams, 44.
He and LeSane have also filed an elder abuse lawsuit against Lakeisha after she allegedly forged Richard’s signature on the title deeds to his Florida home.
Richard has not been able to get the home back and Lakeisha is reportedly still living there.
The estate is now in a state of disrepair, as shown in aerial photos obtained by The U.S. Sun.
Lakeisha has also been accused of selling Richard’s vehicles without permission and cashing his social security checks.
She’s also in trouble with hard lender David Simon after she took out a $279,000 loan she’s allegedly struggling to pay.
Lakeisha reportedly blew the money on a failed trucking business, which is why there are unused trailers and shipping container’s at the estate in Florida.
The main home is allegedly in such a state of disrepair that Lakeisha has moved into a smaller studio located on the property.
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