Brittney Griner is back in the United States after spending nine months in a Russian prison.
The 32-year-old WNBA star was arrested in Russia back in February 2022 after police found vape canisters with cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. In August, she was sentenced to nine years in prison.
People have noticed that Brittney no longer has her signature dreadlocks and are wondering why her hair was cut while in captivity.
Maria Blagovolina, one of her two Russian lawyers, is opening up about why he hair was cut off.
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The lawyer says that Brittney made the decision to cut off her hair to make her life easier during the upcoming cold winter months. She cut her hair off just two Sundays ago.
“It’s very cold in there and every time she washed her hair she got cold and would get a chill,” Maria told ESPN. “She should have waited until New Year’s Day.”
Maria claims that Brittney‘s life in prison wasn’t as bad as people made it seem. Most women in the prison spend their days sewing uniforms, but Brittney was too tall to sit at the worktables and her hands were too big for sewing, so she carried fabric all day.
“She had honestly no complaints,” Maria said. “Things could have been much worse.”
You can watch a video of Brittney being released from the Russian prison here.
