WNBA player Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle, described their most recent phone call from detention in Russia as ‘disturbing.’
Cherelle said that during the call she could tell that Brittney “was not OK,” adding, “If you think about just a person’s suffering and when they have suffered to a max … she was at the max that day.”
“There was nothing I could do,” she added. “It was like 30-second to 2-minute range of her just sitting on the phone just literally in tears, just crying. It’s just the most still, I think, moment I’ve just ever shared with my wife. I didn’t have words. I don’t know if she has anything left in her tank to continue to wake up every day and be in a place where she has no one.”
Cherelle described the interaction with Brittney as “the most disturbing phone call I’ve ever experienced.”
