Brittney Griner’s wife Cherelle breaks silence on their emotional reunion: “It did not feel real”
Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle, has opened up about reuniting with the WNBA star in a new interview. On 8 December, the beloved basketball player returned to the United States after President Joe Biden struck a deal with Russia to exchange her for arms dealer Viktor Bout. “She’s safe, she’s on a plane, she’s on her way home,” Biden revealed in an official statement (per CNN). “After months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under intolerable circumstances, Brittney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones, and she should have been there all along.” Over the last few weeks, Griner’s fans, family and industry peers have celebrated her return with various statements and social media posts, including her dedicated wife, Cherelle.
In a recent interview with People, the 30-year-old gave further insight into how she navigated life while her partner was wrongfully detained in Russia. “I was hopeless a lot of days.
You try and stay grounded, but I’m human. Still, I would never completely give up home on my wife’s life,” she explained. Fortunately, Cherelle was finally able to “exhale” when President Biden announced that Griner was finally returning home, following 10 months of detention. “I had thought about that moment a thousand times, and I thought I would be full of tears.
But I was overwhelming happy,” she said. “I [was] like, ‘Oh, thank God, this is such a great day.” Cherelle then went on to open up about their heartwarming reunion at the airport – which she described as a surreal moment. “We were both just instantly crying.
