Serena Williams opens up about social distancing anxiety in a video with a funny twist

The GOAT opened up about how she’s feeling during the health crisis with a little humor.

Like so many responsible people practicing social distancing during the COVID-19, or coronavirus, outbreak, Serena Williams is struggling to cope with the heightened anxiety she’s experiencing while being closed off from the rest of the world.

So the 23-time Grand Slam champion recently shared her thoughts and feelings with the world on social media, but she added a funny twist.

Lightening the mood while opening up about her coronavirus-related anxiety, Serena addressed her fans in a series of now-expired posts on her Instagram stories. Between each segment, she changed things up with colorful tutus and skirts and varying wigs.

But like a true GOAT, the constant in her outfits was a t-shirt with “LEGENDARY” written on it.

In the stories, she started by explaining how her perception of the novel coronavirus began to change when the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California — one of the biggest non-major tennis tournaments on the schedule — was canceled back in early March. It was one of the first sporting events in the U.S. to be impacted by the outbreak, but then they started piling on. And her anxiety and stress increased too.

Serena explains:

“It started out with me feeling like, ‘Oh, it can’t really affect me.’ And then suddenly, Indian Wells was canceled, and I was like, ‘Oh, OK, that’s weird, but I have a little time off and I’m gonna enjoy that time off.’ And that one cancellation led to another and led to another and then led to all this anxiety I’m feeling, and I’m just like, now I’ve been social distancing for actually a really long time, for probably, like, two weeks now. But every little thing makes me really crazy.

“And by anxiety, I mean, like, I’m just on edge any time anyone sneezes around me or coughs I get crazy. And I don’t hang out with anyone. So when I say anyone I mean my daughter. She coughed, and I got angry. I gave her a side-eye. I gave her that ‘angry Serena,’ and then I got sad. I was like, ‘Is she OK? Is there something wrong with my daughter? Like, is there anything I can do?’ And I just don’t know what to do, so instead of being relaxed, I’m really under a ton of stress.

“I never expected to be relaxed but it is what it is and we’ll get through this, we have to. I just wanted to update you on what I was doing.

“Wait a minute. Did something change?”

In another recent video on her Instagram page, she said her next six weeks in solitude will include makeup tutorials.

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