Cherelle Griner Reacts to Wife Brittney Griner’s 9-Year Sentence: ‘It Terrifies Me’
usmagazine.comStill by her side. Cherelle Griner spoke out after her wife, Brittney Griner, was sentenced to nine years in Russian prison.“It terrifies me, because when you watch movies, sometimes those situations don’t end well,” Cherelle told Gayle King during an interview that will air on CBS Mornings Thursday, October 6. “Sometimes they never get their person back.”The North Carolina Central University graduate said her life has felt “like a movie” since the WNBA star, 31, was sentenced to nearly a decade in prison in August. “In no world did I ever [think] our president and a foreign nation’s president would be sitting down having to discuss the freedom of my wife,” she explained. “And so to me, as much as everybody’s telling me a different definition of what BG is, it feels to me as if she’s a hostage.”Cherelle added: “I’m sitting there like, ‘Do we get her back?
Do I ever get to see my wife again? Like, what happens [next]?’ The fact that everything is so unprecedented and everything is, like, changeable, I think is a really good word.
I feel like every day I’m hearing something new, and so it’s just, it’s terrifying.”Brittney was arrested at a Moscow airport in February after landing in the country to play for UMMC Ekaterinburg during the WNBA off-season.
Russian officials alleged at the time that the professional basketball player smuggled hash oil cartridges in her luggage — the transportation of which can carry up to a 10-year prison sentence in the country.When news of the athlete’s dilemma was made public weeks later, Brittney’s loved ones and several celebrity fans expressed their support, also calling out the U.S.
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