Coming Home

From the nine-time women's basketball icon and three-time Olympic gold medallist - a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.

On 17 February 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centrepiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney's world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly - until now.