WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was launched from a Russian jail in December after almost 10-months in captivity.
Now she’s prepared to inform her story.
Cherelle Griner and Brittney Griner converse onstage throughout the 54th NAACP Picture Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 25, 2023 in Pasadena, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty Photographs for BET)
Griner, 32, introduced Tuesday that she will likely be releasing a memoir about her February 2022 arrest when she was taken into Russian custody at an airport in Moscow on drug-related prices.
“I arrived in Moscow to rejoin the UMMC Ekaterinburg basketball staff and was instantly detained on the airport. That day was the start of an unfathomable interval in my life which solely now am I able to share,” Griner wrote in a submit on Instagram.
“The first motive I traveled again to Russia for work that day was as a result of I needed to make my spouse, household, and teammates proud. After an extremely difficult 10 months in detainment, I’m grateful to have been rescued and to be dwelling. Readers will hear my story and perceive why I’m so grateful for the outpouring of assist from individuals internationally.”
WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner, stands listening to a verdict in a courtroom in Khimki simply outdoors Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photograph by way of AP)
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Writer Alfred A. Knopf stated in a press launch Tuesday that the memoir is at present with out a title however is scheduled to be launched in spring 2024.
It can talk about her almost 10-month lengthy detainment, her trial, the efforts to carry her dwelling, and the start of the #WeAreBG motion.
It can additionally contact on the pay disparity feminine athletes face within the U.S. — the driving pressure behind her taking part in abroad.
Brittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury appears to be like on throughout the recreation towards the Connecticut Solar on September 11, 2021 at Footprint Middle in Phoenix, Arizona. (Michael Gonzales/NBAE by way of Getty Photographs)
“Griner discloses in vivid element her harrowing expertise of her wrongful detainment (as categorized by the State Division) and the issue of navigating the byzantine Russian authorized system in a language she didn’t converse,” the press launch learn.
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“Griner additionally describes her stark and surreal time dwelling in a overseas jail and the terrifying elements of day-to-day life in a ladies’s penal colony. On the coronary heart of the guide, Griner highlights the private turmoil she skilled throughout the close to ten-month ordeal and the resilience that carried her by means of to the day of her return to the US final December.”
Griner added Tuesday that in telling her story, she hopes to “increase consciousness” for different Individuals “wrongfully detained overseas.”
