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Brittney Griner’s wife shares that basketball star feels like her life isn’t more important


Like Brittney Griner Preparing for an appeal hearing later this month, her wife Cherelle Griner sat down for her first interview since Brittney was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for drug smuggling plots.

In her interview with Gayle King cho CBS News, Cherelle shared that she has spoken on the phone with Brittney twice since she was locked up in Russia. She said on the first phone call she was happy to hear Brittney’s voice and thought Brittney was fine. However, she said after the second phone call with Brittney, it became the “most disturbing” phone call she had ever had. Cherelle went on to share that she could tell that Brittney suffered to the max that day.

While expressing that she can see that Brittney is not herself at the moment, she shared that Brittney told her, “My life doesn’t even matter anymore. I feel like my life doesn’t matter anymore.”

Gayle King noted that Cherelle hopes a prisoner swap could take place before Brittney’s appeal hearing on October 25. She expressed concern that once the hearing is held and the order is completed. After all, Brittney could be in a position where she was sent to a labor camp.

Cherelle also said,

“It was like a movie to me. I was like, ‘I never thought that in what world, you know, our president and a foreign president would sit down to discuss my wife’s liberties.’ And for me too, when people tell me another definition of what BG is, to me I feel as if she’s a hostage. “

Like before reported, in August Brittney Griner was found guilty of attempted drug smuggling and sentenced to nine years in prison and fined around $16,300 – one million rubles.

We will continue to update you as more details become available.

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