Personal Life
Williams converted to Islam in 2008, and is the first Muslim to play for the All Blacks. Despite not living in the country for any extended period of time, Williams is also a citizen of Samoa.
His younger sister Niall Williams is a New Zealand international touch football player and current captain of the women's team and won gold at the 2005 Youth World Cup and silver at the 2011 Touch Football World Cup. His older brother John Arthur Williams has played rugby league in both the New South Wales Cup and Queensland Cup and for the Phelan Shield premiers New Lynn Stags in the 2011 Auckland Rugby League season. He is the cousin of brothers Henry and Marcus Perenara, who are former professional rugby league players, and is also the cousin of rugby union player and former Chiefs teammate Tim Nanai-Williams.
Williams was in Christchurch when both the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes struck.
According to Greg Bearup, Williams's “one indulgence is beautiful clothes, and when he's finished with sport he'd like to design his own range, "with sizes that fit boys like me".”
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