Brittney Griner’s wife calls 9-year sentence ‘terrifying,' says Griner is a 'hostage': ‘Do we get her back’

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Cherelle Griner said Brittney Griner’s nine-year prison sentence in Russia "terrifies" her and said the whole situation is "like a movie." 

Brittney Griner was sentenced in August in a Moscow court for drug possession. Russian authorities said the U.S. basketball star, who played in Russia in the offseason, had vape cannisters with cannabis oil inside her luggage when she was traveling through Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February. 

"It's like a movie for me," Cherelle said on "CBS Mornings" in her first interview since her wife’s sentencing. "I’m like, 'In no world did I ever thought, you know, our president and a foreign nation president would be sitting down having to discuss the freedom of my wife.' And so to me, as much as everybody's telling me a different definition of what B.G. [Brittney] is, it feels to me as if she's a hostage." 

She continued, "It terrifies me because, I mean, when you watch movies, like, sometimes those situations don't end well. Sometimes they never get the person back." 

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 August 4, 2022. (REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)

RUSSIA SETS BRITTNEY GRINER'S APPEAL DATE FOR OCT. 25 

Griner’s appeal, which the U.S. has called a "sham," has been scheduled for Oct. 25.

She admitted in court that she had the canisters in her luggage, but testified that she had inadvertently packed them in haste and that she had no criminal intent. Her defense team presented written