Most of this information if you have followed along with the story, you could have put together yourself.
The two most important things I want to point out is according to Johnson, Brittney Griner is the father legally to her twins and Griner is a violent abuser.
Here are the quotes from her Cosmo interview.
They made plans to buy a house together and start a family. It seemed like a logical time to get pregnant, since Johnson was sitting out her Russia season. The women agreed she would sit out the full year and do in-vitro fertilization, then train hard after the birth and try to get traded to the Phoenix team. They connected with a doctor in Phoenix and picked a sperm donor — a blond, blue-eyed man, chosen by Griner, says Johnson.
They made plans to buy a house together and start a family. It seemed like a logical time to get pregnant, since Johnson was sitting out her Russia season. The women agreed she would sit out the full year and do in-vitro fertilization, then train hard after the birth and try to get traded to the Phoenix team. They connected with a doctor in Phoenix and picked a sperm donor — a blond, blue-eyed man, chosen by Griner, says Johnson.
In Arizona in the spring of 2015, the women went to counseling and marched forward, starting IVF, buying a house, and moving two of Johnson’s sisters in as nannies.
“I’ve had men that needed to step up more as a man than Brittney,” she says.
A few minutes later, when the women passed each other, Griner grabbed the back of Johnson’s neck and threw her head down. “I’ve never been grabbed or thrown like that ever in my entire life, not by anybody,” Johnson says. “At that point, everything was out there. We were fighting. We were scrapping.” Griner hurled a glass dog bowl. “Her eyes were dead black,” Johnson says. “I thought I could talk to her, but she was not there.” She recalls Griner saying, “I’ve got something for you” and heading to the bedroom. At that point, her sister Judy Johnson called 911.
Johnson says now — although no one revealed it to the police — that Griner had a gun in the house. (Arizona allows weapons without a permit.) Johnson didn’t know about the gun at the time, but her sister Judy did. And Judy says her fear that Griner was going to get the gun was the reason she called 911. “I thought the situation was way out of control and something needed to be done,” she says.
The other sister present, Grace Johnson, says she saw a gun in the house later, after the arrests. Grace says she also saw Griner hit Johnson over the head with a metal case, another detail that no one told police. Johnson says she stayed quiet to protect her fiancée.
Griner and Johnson were both suspended 7 games for the arrest. Griner went on with her life, played in an All-Star game and appeared in the ESPN Body Issue. No one really talks about her beating her wife and abandoning her kids.
But, that is the double standard in regard to women and domestic violence.
