FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2013 file photo, Serena Williams answers a question during a press conference ahead of the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Williams says she's reaching out to the family of the victim in the Steubenville rape case after the tennis star was quoted in a Rolling Stone article saying "she shouldn't have put herself in that position." (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)
June 19, 2013 - 10:00 AM
Serena Williams says she's reaching out to the family of the victim in the Steubenville rape case after the tennis star was quoted in a Rolling Stone article saying "she shouldn't have put herself in that position."
In a statement released through her agent Wednesday, Williams says: "What was written — what I supposedly said — is insensitive and hurtful, and I by no means would say or insinuate that she was at all to blame."
The comment was made in one paragraph of a lengthy story posted online Tuesday about Williams, a 16-time Grand Slam title winner who is ranked No. 1 heading into Wimbledon, which starts next week.
Two players from the Steubenville, Ohio, high school football team were convicted in March of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl.
News from © The Associated Press, 2013