Gangland widow Roberta Williams reveals details of life with slain underworld ... trends now
Gangland widow Roberta Williams has opened up on what it was like being married to slain underworld king Carl Williams and how his death was 'clearly a set-up'.
The 53-year-old spoke about her life with the notorious drug lord to former prison inmate turned social media star, Spanian, on his podcast, The Search.
Williams she felt like royalty being married to Carl and said he was the most 'gentle and loving' man despite his reputation as Australia's most feared drug kingpin.
Gangland widow Roberta Williams shared details of her life with former prison inmate turned rapper and social media star Spanian in an episode of his podcast The Search (pictured)
Roberta (right) was married to slain underworld king and drug lord Carl Williams (left). The 53-year-old said she was treated like royalty and believes his 2010 murder was a set-up
'Being with Carl was good because you wouldn't line up at night-clubs, you'd get in everywhere, you'd be treated as royalty,' Williams said.
'If one person dare touched me or one of my kids Carl would have turned it on, full-on.
'I lived a nice life. I married a lovely man. I got a beautiful daughter out of that and he was the most amazing father to my other three children.
'He was the best man you could ever meet. He was so soft and gentle and loving to me and my kids. [We] have the best memories of him.'
Spanian asked Williams if she was ever scared living with Carl - as he was known to be the type of man 'that would hide in a bush, jump out and shoot you in the head'.
Williams said only 'weak' people feared her husband and that it was weak people who killed him in prison.
Carl Williams has been described as Australia's most notorious gangster due to his central role in Melbourne's gangland war which shook the city in the late 90s and early 2000s and became the focus of hit television series Underbelly.
Carl Williams was serving a life sentence in Melbourne's notorious Barwon Prison for three murders and conspiracy to commit a fourth when fellow inmate Matthew Charles Johnson beat him to death with the stem of an exercise bike on April 4, 2010.
At the time of his death, which marked the last murder in the gangland killings, Carl Williams was in the maximum-security Acacia unit and was discovered 42 minutes after the attack - a detail Roberta Williams claims is evidence of a 'set-up'.
'It was set-up, of course it had to be, he was left for 42 minutes,' she said.
'So, you've got the highest profile prisoner in the country in the highest security prison in the state [with] 24/7 CCTV cameras.
'He's murdered and left for 42 minutes? Come on it's not rocket science.'
Williams said she believed someone was paid to kill her husband and claimed that at one time police officers entered Carl's cell and offered to give him the 'green light' if he paid them $20,000 a month.
The mother-of-four claimed her life with drugs and crime was completely different to the 'absolutely pathetic' depiction portrayed by Logie-award winning actress Kat Stewart in Underbelly.
Carl Williams (pictured with daughter Dhakota) was serving a life sentence in Melbourne's notorious Barwon Prison for three murders and conspiracy to commit a fourth when fellow inmate Matthew Charles Johnson beat him to death with the stem of an exercise bike on April 4, 2010
Roberta claimed her husband's murder was a 'set-up' as he was killed inside maximum security prison, which has 24 hour CCTV surveillance, and was discovered 42 minutes after he was hit (pictured)
She claimed the show made her look like a 'psycho' and hated how it portrayed her as a mother.
'If you looked at my children you wouldn't think they were my children after watching that show,' Williams said.
'I put them all through private school, my kids work and they've never been in trouble. Only my eldest son's been in trouble but he's now a reformed drug addict and he's now training to help drug addicted people.'
Williams said her children have never doubted how much she loves them and that she learnt to treat them with love and respect after experiencing a horrible upbringing at the hands of her own mother.
Williams said when she was six-years-old her mother tried to drown her in the bath and, on another occasion, tried to pour nail polish remover in her eyes, before abandoning her on the street three years later.
'The first time I knew what love was was when I held that little boy (her son) in my
