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Basketball star Brittney Griner on Wednesday said she had contemplated taking her own life after being arrested by Russian authorities in 2022, in her first televised interview discussing her nearly ten-month imprisonment., which aired on ABC News on Wednesday night, Griner said “I wanted to take my life more than once in the first weeks,” adding she felt like leaving the place “so badly.”
Griner also spoke about the conditions of her prison cell, which had a mattress with “a huge blood stain on it…no soap, no toilet paper,” all of which made her feel “less than human.”with the New York Times, she also talked about contemplating suicide while in prison and mentioned her poor living conditions in Russia, which made her feel “horrible” and prison guards “snickered” and looked at her through a peephole in her cell.
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