BREAKING: WNBA star Brittney Griner finally opened up about her trauma during her time in the Russian prison system on former NFL player Cam Newton’s podcast.
Brittney Griner: “One time, I was in this room with this one chick, and they don’t… there’s no, like, segregation. There’s no segregation, and there’s no, like, crimes, you know? Like…”
Cam Newton: “Yeah, so you don’t know if you were in there with a murderer…”
Brittney Griner: “Well, yeah, I did know. Yeah. So, yeah, like… basically, everybody in there is either for murder or drugs, over there. Like, that’s like the two number two things. Like, it’s murder and drugs. But I had a cellmate in the very beginning. I thought something was off with her. She acted like a child, but she was a grown woman. Like, but she very much acted like an adolescent child. And then she had, like, burn marks all over herself. And I found out after the fact that she was… she was selling videos online of her husband and her child, together. And that’s who they had me in a cell with. And the burn marks was the girl’s… There’s not a lot of torturing from inmates with girls, like, on the women’s side. But if you’re in there for something like that, yeah, you’re getting… you’re going to get tortured. And they would put their cigarettes out on her and make her sleep at the door, too. But I was in a cell with her, and I was mad when I found out about it, because I’m just, like, not knowing that they don’t separate people. I’m like, well, I don’t want them to think that I’m in here for this crime…”
Cam Newton: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…”
Brittney Griner: “…because like, don’t associate me with that one. But so, yeah, I was… I didn’t really sleep at night because she’d be over there singing and doing weird stuff at night. So I’m just, like, not even sleeping at first.”
