Serena Williams Addresses Whether She Shaded Ex Drake With Super Bowl Halftime Show Cameo

Serena Williams isn’t letting one dance get in the way of her feelings about Drake.

Back in February, the 23 time Grand Slam champion made waves when she briefly joined Kendrick Lamar during “Not Like Us”—a diss track aimed at Drake—at the Super Bowl Halftime show. But as for whether she as taking aim at the “One Dance” rapper, whom she dated in 2014, with her surprise appearance?

“Absolutely not,” Serena, 41, said inside of Time’s 100 Most Influential People issue published April 15. “I would never do that. And that was sad, that anyone would ever think that. I respect how they could.”

Still, she understands why people saw it as such.

“Obviously I can see how someone would think that,” Serena, who wed Alexis Ohanian in 2017, continued. “But absolutely not. I have never had negative feelings towards him. We’ve known him for so many years.”