Brittney Griner will officially be home for Christmas.
Though Griner she faced virulent online criticism and was forced to cut her trademark dreadlocks to survive the brutal Russian winter while incarcerated, Griner is back on American soil. A person on Griner’s flight home revealed heartwarming news about the star’s return to American soil.
“When she finally got on to the US plane, I said, ‘Brittany, you must have been through a lot over the last 10 months. Here’s your seat. Please feel free to decompress. We’ll give you your space,’” Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens told CNN’s Dana Bash on State of the Union.
“And she said, ‘Oh no. I’ve been in prison for 10 months now listening to Russian, I want to talk. But first of all, who are these guys?’ And she moved right past me and went to every member on that crew, looked them in the eyes, shook their hands and asked about them and got their names, making a personal connection with them. It was really amazing,” Carstens recalled. “And then later on, on an 18-hour flight, she probably spent 12 hours just talking and we talked about everything under the sun.”
The gesture moved Carstens.
“I was left with the impression this is an intelligent, passionate, compassionate, humble, interesting person, a patriotic person,” he said.
[CNN]
