Brittney Griner to release memoir detailing 'harrowing experience' in Russian detainment

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WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was released from a Russian jail in December after nearly 10-months in captivity.

Now she’s ready to tell her story. 

Cherelle Griner and Brittney Griner speak onstage during the 54th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 25, 2023 in Pasadena, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty Images for BET)

Griner, 32, announced Tuesday that she will be releasing a memoir about her February 2022 arrest when she was taken into Russian custody at an airport in Moscow on drug-related charges.

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"I arrived in Moscow to rejoin the UMMC Ekaterinburg basketball team and was immediately detained at the airport. That day was the beginning of an unfathomable period in my life which only now am I ready to share," Griner wrote in a post on Instagram. 

"The primary reason I traveled back to Russia for work that day was because I wanted to make my wife, family, and teammates proud.  After an incredibly challenging 10 months in detainment, I am grateful to have been rescued and to be home. Readers will hear my story and understand why I’m so thankful for the outpouring of support from people across the world."

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner, stands listening to a verdict in a courtroom in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022.  (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)

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Publisher Alfred A. Knopf said in a press release Tuesday that the memoir is currently without a title