Venus Williams watches her sister Serena Williams of the United States during the women’s singles final match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus on Day Fourteen of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 9, 2012 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Venus Williams watches her sister Serena Williams of the United States during the women’s singles final match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus on Day Fourteen of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 9, 2012 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Venus Williams of the United States returns a shot during her women’s second round match against Angelique Kerber of Germany on Day Four of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 30, 2012 in the Flushing neigborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
Venus Williams of the United States returns a shot during her women’s second round match against Angelique Kerber of Germany on Day Four of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 30, 2012 in the Flushing neigborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
Venus Williams of the United States serves during her women’s second round match against Angelique Kerber of Germany on Day Four of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 30, 2012 in the Flushing neigborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
Venus Williams of the United States returns a shot during her women’s second round match against Angelique Kerber of Germany on Day Four of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 30, 2012 in the Flushing neigborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
Venus Williams of the United States celebrates set point during her women’s second round match against Angelique Kerber of Germany on Day Four of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 30, 2012 in the Flushing neigborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
Venus Williams of the United States returns a forehanded shot to Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States during their women’s singles first round match on Day Two of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2012 in the Flushing neigborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
Venus Williams of the United States looks on during Day Six of the 2012 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 1, 2012 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
From MadameNoire.com: You may have heard the latest news. Venus Williams is a sex addict. That’s what the internets are claiming today. But let me explain. Venus recently spoke to a foreign magazine, Affari Italiani, about her new Italian boo. She didn’t say too much; I’m assuming for the sake of privacy, but she mentioned that she can’t keep her hands off of him. The full quote was broken up but the magazine, and now other online publications are reporting that Venus said, she’s “like an octopus” when it comes to him. She then described her new beau: “He’s a 29-year-old businessman and he comes from Rome – but I’m not going to say more.” You can read the full article here. The whole things is only about five sentences long.
If you had a chance to read it, you may have noticed that no where in that blurb do we see that Venus referred to herself as a sex addict. It would appear that the “sex addict” phrase came from another publication, the Austrian Times, in an attempt to sensationalize the story. It would be one thing if this were the only publication that stretched the truth this way; but unfortunately, other outlets are running with this title.
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