‘I wanted to take my life’: Brittney Griner talks about detention in Russian prison

Basketball star was detained on drug charges in 2022Griner details ordeal during interview with ABCBrittney Griner, the US basketball star who was imprisoned in Russia for 10 months in 2022, has given her first interviews since her release as part of a prisoner exchange, revealing that she had contemplated suicide while in jail.Speaking to the New York Times, Griner described her arrest, the shocking and unsanitary conditions that she endured during her detention, and her difficult readjustment