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Brittney Griner has described how life was while in a Russian detention center in the past, but revealed some horrible details about what led one of his cell partners to be in prison with her.
Griner made an appearance in the podcast “Funky friday” by Cam Newton, where Atlanta Dream star discussed her imprisoned time. During that conversation, Griner explained how the inmates were not separated according to the crimes they committed.
Then, although he said that most of the inmates were in prison due to murders or drugs, one of his first cell partners was there for a vile reason.
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Atlanta Dream Center Brittney Griner (42) takes a rebound in the third quarter against New York Liberty at Barclays Center. (Images of Wendell Cruz-Imagn)
“I had a cellmate from the beginning. I thought something was wrong with her,” Griner said. “He acted as a girl, but she was an adult woman, but acted largely as a teenage girl. And then she had burned marks about herself, and I discovered after the fact that she was selling videos online of her husband and her son, together. And that is who they had me in a cell.”
Griner added that the nature of the crimes of his cellmate led others in prison to “torture her.”
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“There is not much torture of inmates with girls on the side of women,” Griner said. “But if you are there for something like that, yes, they will torture you. And they would put their cigarettes and make her sleep at the door too.”
Griner continued to say how he was “angry” that the prison was not separated by the crime, since he did not want others to “associate me with that.”
“I really didn’t sleep at night because she was there singing and doing strange things at night,” Griner said about the roommate.
The WNBA star and the two -time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted by a court room at an audience, in Khimki on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, on August 4, 2022. On Thursday, it was released in exchange for Viktor Bour, an international trafficker with convict. (Photo AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Archive)
Griner shared details of his heartbreaking experience last year for a sitting with “Good Morning America” by ABC News in 2024.
She had said that she believed that her “life is over here” after realizing that she left vape cartridges in her luggage at a Russian airport in February 2022. Griner was playing basketball abroad, which is common for WNBA players.
“I was so scared,” he said in the emotional interview.
Griner was transferred to a Russian criminal colony approximately 300 miles outside Moscow after being sentenced to nine years in prison. It served almost 10 months of that sentence before being released as part of an exchange of prisoners.
“The mattress had a huge blood stain. I had no soap, or toilet paper. That was the time I felt less than a human,” Griner said about time in prison.
Since he returned home, Griner has won a new perspective on life in the United States, which was on exhibition at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. Griner, who once boycotted the national anthem, was seen excited about the US team. Uu. Winning another gold medal in basketball.
Phoenix Mercury Center Brittney Griner (42) questions a call during the first half of a WNBA basketball match against the Dallas Wings in Arlington, Texas, on Friday, June 9, 2023. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
“I didn’t think I would be here,” he said, through Reuters. “And then be here and win gold for my country, representing when my country fought for me so hard even standing here. This gold medal will take a special place between the other two that I was lucky to win.”
Griner, 34, stars for sleep now, where he averages 10.3 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game. It is nine times All-Star, twice a champion of scoring and eight times lock leader during his career.
