Brittney Griner Thanked Supporters With a Handwritten Letter Posted to IG
glamour.comcan at last speak to her supporters on her own behalf. And on December 21, the WNBA star did just that, with a handwritten letter posted to Instagram thanking everyone who wrote to her while she was in prison.
Perhaps even more importantly, Griner urged everyone who supported her to now write letters of support to Paul Whelan, another American who remains unfairly imprisoned by the Russian government. “I want to personally take the time to write to you and say that your efforts mattered,” Griner's letter reads. “Your letters helped me to not lose hope during a time where I was full of regret and vulnerable in ways I could have never imagined.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Because of you I never lost hope.” In the post caption, the basketball star wrote simply, “Thank you.
Your words matter.” She also tagged Glamour's Women of the Year Awards, where this year in an emotional speech to the audience.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The letters she received were important to Griner not just because they lifted her spirits, her note continues, but because they, “showed me the power of collective hands.
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