WNBA veteran Brittney Griner has filed for divorce from her wife, attorney Cherelle Griner, after eight years of marriage. The petition, filed in Fulton County, Georgia, states the couple has been separated since July 24 and describes the marriage as “irretrievably broken” with “no hope of reconciliation.”
The couple married in June 2018. Cherelle Griner became a prominent public advocate for her wife’s release during Brittney’s nine-month detention in Russia in 2022, and the two welcomed a son, Bash, via surrogate in 2024. The divorce petition requests joint physical custody of Bash and an equitable division of marital assets and debts.
An attorney for Brittney Griner told ABC News the family hopes to resolve the matter privately. Neither Brittney nor Cherelle Griner has publicly commented beyond that statement, and there’s no indication the filing is connected to any specific incident. Given the personal nature of the filing, further details are a matter for the couple and the court, not public speculation.
