Brittney Griner Says She Considered Suicide During First Weeks of Russian Imprisonment: ‘I Felt Like Leaving Here So Badly’

WNBA star Brittney Griner says that during the early days of her Russian imprisonment, she felt like taking her own life.

In an interview With ABC’s Robin Roberts that aired Wednesday, days before the release of her memoir Coming Home, Griner describes the physical and emotional turmoil she went through after being arrested by Russian authorities in 2022 for attempting to travel with a marijuana-infused vape cartridge in her luggage.

“I wanted to take my life more than once in the first weeks … I felt like leaving here so badly,” Griner told Roberts.

When Brittney Griner was detained by Russian customs security, she sent a barrage of panicked text messages to her wife, Cherelle Griner, to alert her. Cherelle recalled reading the

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