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Brittney Griner<\/strong><\/a>‘s been through plenty of ups and downs over the course of her professional and personal lives, and her wife Cherelle<\/strong>‘s been there for many of the athlete’s hills and valleys.<\/p>\n The WNBA star and her spouse met during their college days, although they didn’t start dating until after graduation … and their married life was disrupted when the basketball player was unexpectedly detained on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n We’re going to take a look at the background of the professional athlete’s spouse … and see how she dealt with her wife’s ordeal.<\/p>\n Cherelle’s A Lawyer Based In Atlanta<\/p>\n Cherelle started studying law at North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham in 2019, according to People<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The WNBA star’s spouse remained at the institution for three years before she graduated with honors in 2022.<\/p>\n Brittney revealed her wife had officially become a lawyer the following April by sharing a set of photos on her Instagram account, and expressed she was “abundantly proud” of Cherelle in the caption.<\/p>\n Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n The professional basketball player wrote about the “hard work, determination, and passion” her spouse put into her degree.<\/p>\n The Pair Met In College … And Eventually Started A Family<\/p>\n The Griners’ love story runs deep and way, way, back, as they first met while they were both attending Baylor University in the early 2010s.<\/p>\n The thing is, Cherelle wasn’t Brittney’s first spouse … the WNBA star had been briefly married to fellow professional basketball player Glory Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, and although Brittney filed for an annulment after just 28 days of marriage, their divorce wasn’t finalized until 2016.<\/p>\n Griner and Baylor University alum Cherelle eventually reconnected, and they got engaged in August 2018, tying the knot the following June.<\/p>\n Cherelle and Brittney later started a family with the birth of their son Bash<\/strong>, who arrived in July 2024.<\/p>\n Cherelle Advocated For Brittney While The Athlete Was Imprisoned In Russia<\/p>\n Brittney made global headlines in March 2022 — she had been detained in Moscow by Russian authorities<\/strong><\/a> the previous month after vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage during a trip to play ball in Russia.<\/p>\n The professional athlete later pleaded guilty to bringing less than a gram of cannabis oil into the country … and although she claimed she’d done so unintentionally, she was sentenced to nine years in prison<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Cherelle expressed she was “hopeless” at times<\/strong><\/a> while her spouse was detained, in an interview with People<\/strong><\/a> — although she later said she never had to “completely give up hope” about her wife’s situation.<\/p>\n Griner was ultimately returned to the United States in December 2022 as part of a prisoner swap, and her wife recalled the moment she was able to reunite with her spouse as “overwhelmingly happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Brittney Griner’s Wife Cherelle Stuck By The WNBA Star Published August 4, 2025 10:30 AM PDT Brittney…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-118735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114971726857179919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}