Our GMA cover story First look at Robin's exclusive interview
with WNBA star Brittany Griner.
The athlete and activist told Ron about those first moments
when she was arrested at a Russian airport for carrying
cannabis oil in her luggage.
On Russian soil and cannabis oil is found.
What you know is illegal there.
What is racing through your mind during that time?
Just everything that I'm not going to see.
I'm thinking about my wife thinking about what my family
is going to think.
Public opinion is going to think.
You know, I can just see the headlines now.
Like I could just visualize everything I worked so hard
for,
just crumbling and going away and then to be somewhere
where there's no understanding in the USI can articulate what
happened,
how this happened. I didn't plan to do this.
This was a mistake. It was an accident,
which I understand accidents have repercussions,
but.
There's nothing. There's none of that.
You say it's an accident and there are people who
believe you,
but you know, there are those who say,
come on, how did you not know that you had
cartridges in your in your luggage?
What do you say to the skeptics?
I would say, Have you ever forgot your keys in
your car,
Left your car running? Have you ever,
You know, where's my glasses?
They're on top of your head.
Where's my phone? Oh, it's in my pocket.
It's just so easy to have a mental lapse,
you know? Granted, my mental lapse was on a more
grand scale,
but it doesn't take away from how that can happen.
And Brittany Grinders memoir Coming home is our Tuesday,
May 7th. We're gonna have more from Robin's exclusive interview
with Brittany this Wednesday on GMA in the full prime
time interview will run on 20/20 that night.