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Brittney Griner’s Memoir Details Terrifying Detainment, Return to U.S.
Brittney Griner reflected on her harrowing 10-month detainment in Russia in her new memoir, ‘Coming Home,' which debuted Tuesday, May 7
As she writes in the book, she’d been prescribed cannabis as treatment for the chronic pain caused by her years of playing basketball, but Russian authorities were unmoved by her declaration that she brought the cartridges to the country by accident. She noted that the U.S. government recommended that she plead not guilty, in part because it would make it easier to understand why she’d been designated as wrongfully detained, but she and her attorneys decided that “kissing the king’s ring was my fastest way to freedom.” She received an exception to fly private for the rest of the 2023 season, but the WNBA didn’t announce plans for the whole league to use charter flights until May 7, 2024 — the same day that Brittney’s book debuted.
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