{"id":796114,"date":"2026-07-31T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796114\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:48:10","slug":"brittney-griner-files-for-divorce-from-wife-after-8-years-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796114\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner Files For Divorce From Wife After 8 Years of Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brittney Griner
\n Files For Divorce From Wife Cherelle<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n July 31, 2026
\n 9:33 AM PDT
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\n Updated
\n July 31, 2026
\n 1:46 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Brittney Griner<\/a> has filed for divorce from her wife, Cherelle<\/a> — the woman who stood by her when she was locked up in Russia — after eight years of marriage.<\/p>\n

The WNBA star filed the divorce petition Thursday … and lists July 24 as the date of separation. She says their marriage is “irretrievably broken.”<\/p>\n

Brittney and Cherelle — who share one child together — tied the knot back in June of 2018 … and remained together during the 10 months Brittney spent in a Russian prison.<\/p>\n

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Brittney’s asking the court for joint legal custody and to determine how much child support to award, if any at all.<\/p>\n

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While Brittney balls up the basketball court, Cherelle dominates the court of law … she’s an attorney and was a leading advocate in pushing for Brittney’s release from Russia back in late 2022, months after she was sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison for allegedly possessing marijuana.<\/p>\n

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Cherelle told People that she felt “hopeless” during Brittney’s prison sentence … and she told them all about their tearful reunion.<\/p>\n

Griner — a 9-time WNBA all-star — is averaging a team-high 14.1 points per game with the Connecticut Sun this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner Files For Divorce From Wife Cherelle Published July 31, 2026 9:33 AM PDT | Updated July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-796114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}