Serena Williams shared in a 2019 interview with Allure magazine that Oprah Winfrey’s advice to ‘never let anyone dim her light’ changed her dating approach for the better.

“Oprah said, ‘Never let anyone dim your light.’ That really stuck with me,” Williams said.

The American also said that her husband, Alexis Ohanian, never casts a shade on her; instead, the tech entrepreneur always strives to push her to her limits, in contrast to her past relationships.

“Alexis doesn’t dim my light. He doesn’t try to dim my light. He puts me in the light, even if I don’t want to be. He pushes me to further points I never thought about,” Serena Williams said.

“It always was something that I could see in some relationships—my light would be dimmer. Now I feel like I can shine really bright and still do everything that I want to do,” she added.

Before her relationship with Ohanian, the 23-time Grand Slam champion was romantically linked with Common, Drake, Grigor Dimitrov, Brett Ratner and her former coach, Patrick Mouratoglou.