Brittney Griner spent nearly 10 months in Russian custody after authorities found a small amount of prescription cannabis oil in her luggage. She was ultimately freed after a prisoner swap that sent convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout back to Russia. But when she came back to the United States, her home wasn’t a safe place, either.
During a recent interview with USWNT soccer legend Megan Rapinoe for The Cut, Brittney Griner revealed that shortly after she got home, her address leaked online and people began to send her and her wife “nasty” and “evil” things, forcing them to move to a different home.
“Our address got leaked so people knew where we lived, and we were getting all this hate mail, really nasty, evil things being sent to the house about me and my wife. We had to go to a safe house for a while, and then we had to sell that house, find a new home. I just wanted to go home to my house, the smells that I remember, the memories, the familiarity. But now I’m uprooted, living out of my suitcases with a security detail,” Griner said.
That undoubtedly made an already difficult situation much more difficult for Griner.
[The Cut]
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