Brittney Griner reveals disturbing truth about her Russian prison cellmate's crimes: 'Didn’t really sleep'

WNBA star Brittney Griner hit back at critics calling her "unpatriotic" on Thursday during an interview on "The View," months after she was released from Russian prison.

Brittney Griner has described what life was like while in a Russian detention facility in the past, but she revealed some horrifying details about what led one of her cellmates to be in prison with her. 

Griner made an appearance on Cam Newton’s "Funky Friday" podcast, where the Atlanta Dream star discussed her time incarcerated. During that conversation, Griner explained how inmates were not separated based on the crimes they committed. 

So, while she said most inmates were in prison due to murder or drugs, one of her early cellmates was there for a vile reason. 

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Atlanta Dream center Brittney Griner (42) grabs a rebound in the third quarter against the New York Liberty at Barclays Center. (Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images)

"I had a cellmate in the very beginning. I thought something was off with her," Griner said. "She acted like a child, but she was a grown woman, but she very much acted like an adolescent child. And then she had burn marks all over herself, and I found out after the fact that she was selling videos online of her husband and her child — together. And that’s who they had me in a cell with."

Griner added that the nature of her cellmate’s crimes led others in prison to "torture" her. 

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"There’s not a lot of torturing from inmates with girls on the women’s side," Griner said. "But if you in there for something like that, yeah, you going to get tortured. And they would put their cigarettes