The Phoenix Mercury veteran said earlier this year that she believed her marriage was about to end because to her February 2022 sentence of nine years in a Russian labor camp.
After being detained at Moscow Airport in February 2022, the athlete was imprisoned in Russia for over ten months until leaving in December and traveling back to the United States.
“My time playing hoops would be gone. In her recently released memoir, Coming Home, she stated, “I would be in my early forties and out of shape, would have to find a new way to provide for my wife.” “As well as Relle. Although she told me she would wait, ten years seemed excessive.
She went on, “Being locked up and just thinking about nine years caused me to go through so many emotions.”
“I’m wondering, ‘Is that going to happen?’ We had big plans to have children and do all these beautiful things together. How am I going to get her to wait?
Cherelle stayed faithful, though, and the two were reunited once Griner was released from prison through a prisoner exchange.
