Brittney Griner releases message on 32nd birthday, marking 8-month stay in Russian detention

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Monday marked eight months since WNBA star Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia. Tuesday marked her 32nd birthday.

Griner's representatives shared a message on Tuesday thanking everyone for the support they have given over the past several months.

"Thank you everyone for fighting so hard to get me home. All the support and love are definitely helping me," Griner said in her message, according to the statement.

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U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, sits inside a defendants' cage during the reading of the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia, Aug. 4, 2022. (REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)

Griner was in Russia in February to compete during the WNBA offseason, and Russian authorities said she had vape canisters with cannabis oil inside her luggage while traveling through an airport in Moscow.

The Biden administration reportedly talked about a potential prisoner swap to free her and another American held in a Russian jail.

Last week, Griner's attorney said she is growing increasingly nervous about the prospects of being released.

"She is not yet absolutely convinced that America will be able to take her home," Alexander Boykov said in an interview with the New York Times. "She is very worried about what the price of that will be, and she is afraid that she will have to serve the whole sentence here in Russia."

Brittney Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner helped create the #WeAreBG campaign in hopes of keeping pressure on the United States government and other officials to