WNBA player Glory Johnson (who played for multiple teams and is currently with Tulsa Shock) married Britney Griner less than a month ago. I’m grateful to TMZ for keeping a running tally on this mess. The wedding happened a few days after both Glory and Britney were arrested on domestic violence charges. TMZ has the gory photos of the damage wrought by both women. They also published the 911 call, which included yelling and screaming. After the arrest, Glory Instagrammed a happy couple photo with a caption:
WE’RE OK! @brittneygriner and I are home, injury-free, and still wedding planning! We know we must set better examples, even during the most trying times, and we are EXTREMELY sorry for all the negative attention we brought to ourselves, our family, and the league. We are actively seeking help in order to do BETTER. Thanks for all the Love, Support, and Prayers that were sent our way. #LoveLife #StillBlessed
[From Glory Johnson on Instagram]
After the arrest, Glory was suspended for 7 games. Both Glory and Britney appeared to set aside their differences and walked down the sand-covered aisle three weeks ago. The dust settled for a few weeks. On Friday, Glory posted a pregnancy announcement to Instagram. She said, “One day until I’m reunited with my Wife @brittneygriner . . . This is about to be one CRAZY SUMMER!!! It has always been a dream of mine to start a family with someone I love. Being a professional athlete that plays year round, there is never a perfect time to get pregnant without putting my career on hold. #TooExcited #NewAdditionToTheFamily”
Well Glory was right about the crazy. ESPN reports that Britney has left Glory. They are indeed pregnant, but Britney has had enough of the drama:
“Last Wednesday, Glory and I agreed to either legally separate, get divorced, or annul our marriage. I can confirm that today I filed for an annulment. In the week prior to the wedding, I attempted to postpone the wedding several times until I completed counseling, but I still went through with it. I now realize that was a mistake.”
[From ESPN]
This relationship is a disaster. TMZ says Glory was blindsided by Britney’s decision to file for divorce. In the court docs, Britney says Glory “essentially threatened her into getting married … and claims the whole thing was a fraud.”
I still don’t understand the timeline. Glory and Britney went into this marriage right after the DV arrests. Both parties wanted to have a child, and Glory reportedly put her career on hold to become pregnant just days after the wedding. Glory’s rep describes the pregnancy as “a huge sacrifice” on Glory’s part. Glory chose to carry a child “to invest in their relationship and their future. As a result she won’t be playing this season.” TMZ says Glory is still posting and deleting on Instagram. Is Glory really pregnant? I don’t know.
Photos courtesy of Glory Johnson on Instagram
A sh..t show.
Yes, a very sad sh.t show now that a baby is involved. Too much stress all the way around.
Yupp. I was reading and thinking, “at least it seems as though neither has kids and they were just married so they wouldn’t do ivf yet”
Sad that there likely is a baby coming.
This is A LOT of drama. Are these two teens? It’s the only explanation for the drama.
Nice one.
MTE exactly. These people are too young for marriage and waaay too young for kids. But when has that ever stopped anyone?
They are both 25, not 17. I know it’s considered too young these days and that women in the USA wait longer to star a family, but so many women in the world are already married and have children at that age and don’t behave like immature, egocentric, irresponsible assholes. I doubt either of these ladies will behave any differently 5 years from now. People capable of domestic violence and this level of drama rarely change and should never have children, at any age. Poor child.
Hey Mrs Bates, just because women the world over are jumped on and impregnated before the age of 25 does not mean they had a choice in life. Wake up, women who do have a choice often choose to stay childless, let’s not pretend that we have a world full of happy young mothers. Society forces young women to breed the world over and it’s time we stop pretending that’s a good thing.
yikes! Maybe Glory though that having a baby would keep them together?
Sounds like a toxic mess. Poor baby, not exactly ideal circumstances.
And we thought the Bobby Flay divorce was messy!
Was the baby conceived the old fashion way? That would explain a lot. It sounds very much unplanned. They were on Say Yes To The Dress and they’re relationship was really odd.
This is what I was wondering, too.
+1 . Regardless, those two are toxic together.
I’m confused. What do you mean “the old fashioned way”???
Was she cheating with a man is what I mean.
Also sorry about the improper use of they’re! It’s supposed to be their. Sorrysorrysorry
Suggesting there may have been a dude on the side, rather than IVF
In my mind, when I heard it, I figured they had a guy friend step up and do the deed. Or Glory did without a real go-ahead from Brittney. Sh!t show is right.
“Johnson-Griner announced via Instagram on Thursday that she was pregnant and would miss the entire WNBA season, but Griner said in the documents she has no biological relationship to the child, and that Johnson got pregnant via in-vitro fertilization using donated sperm.”
Honestly, to me it sounds like there was some emotional blackmail of “ohhh but we’re going to be having a baby… we NEED to get married.” Maybe she even sped up the timeline of when they had originally agreed to have a child.
Either way, these are two young women who are toxic for each other. It was incredibly stupid of Glory to rush a baby and a wedding – and they’re making it out as if it’s this huuuge sacrifice for her to be carrying this baby. You’re 24 – it’s not exactly high risk. She’s taking a year off of her career, which, yeah, sucks, but there’s no NEED for a 24 year old to rush a pregnancy (unless she has some sort of medical issue that she has a limited time frame to become pregnant – but still, pretty unlikely for someone her age). Given the fact that they are abusive towards each other – it’s giving me the idea that Glory might have been doing the emotional blackmail route. I could be very wrong, but the whole thing is pretty sketchy.
Really sketchy, and so sad for the poor kid.
Did she (Johnson) not hear what happened to Sherri Shepherd. They both better get ready to raise their child. Regardless of how and when the child was conceived it happened when they were married.
Now put on your big girl panties and deal
That occurred to me too, though it’s been reported that she underwent IVF. Either way hella sketchy, and I can easily see the IVF story being a cover up and, oops! it really was infidelity. Whatever happened, it sounds like Glory did with without Brittany’s full knowledge and/or consent. I can see a knock down drag out fight happening about any and all of these scenarios.
I’m still trying to figure this one out.
I’m no relationship expert, but if you have a knock down drag out right before you are supposed to get married, I would probably recommend you postpone the wedding. It also sounds like the pregnancy came before the marriage (maybe that is what the fight was about?), so it all seems a bit “off” in planning and execution. And it is not a divorce, it is an annulment, meaning it never happened, which is really serious when you don’t want to acknowledge you got married.
I think one (I’m really not sure who is who here) is claiming “fraud”, which is an annulment reasoning… And in under 30 days. It’s usually quicker than a divorce. Especially if she’s indeed pregnant (and keeps the baby), it could get the other off of paying support.
It’s the non-pregnant one (the one with the dreads) who filed for the annulment.
I would like to point out that both women were suspended for 7 games because the league found them equally at fault for what happen. Though only one, pleaded to the domestic charge. Anyway this whole situation is a hot mess. If they took steps to get pregnant days after the wedding then she is not far along, if she is at all.
Other places were saying that Brittney didn’t even know about the pregnancy. It seems strange to get knocked up so quickly after marrying and to announce it after you and your spouse allegedly talked about ending the marriage. Moral of the story do not go through with a wedding you are not comfortable with, do not stay with someone who assaulted you, even if it is mutual, and babies cannot fix broken relationships.
Deadspin says annullment papers, alleging fraud and duress.
I keep seeing that Griner has no biological connection to the baby. How would she, unless a relative of hers donated the sperm? Do people do that (get sperm from a relative for a biological connection)? Just curious
I believe some couples can use both eggs (only one will fertilize, but they won’t know which) along with a donor sperm. I think they put some storyline in Modern Family about it.
One of the chefs from the Food Network was pregnant at the same time as her partner. They each carried the others embryos. Still not genetically connected, but they said they felt closer to each child that way.
As others have mentioned, one way to do it is for one partner to be the egg donor and the other to carry the pregnancy. But, yes, there are some couples who choose to use the non-carrying partner’s brother as a spermicide donor, so both women have a biological relationship to the child.
You mean sperm donor – there probably wouldn’t be a pregnancy if someone donated spermicide! 😉
It’s not a complete disaster unless they “reconcile” and get back together again a week from now. The drama is too high with that couple, they should stay away from each other – and stay out of romantic relationships with anyone else until they grow up (I’m with LAK on that one, they are acting like teenagers)
I think you got some things wrong: they were both punished by WNBA, which was very strange, considering Grinner was the one who took the plea for assault and Johnson was the one with concussion. Deadspin has pretty detailed coverage. Honestly, I didn’t know anything about them, but the angle WNBA presented (and Griner) reminds me of the Rice case, where effort was made to make wife seem guilty as well by sports organization. I find it pretty scary how easy it seems to PR and spin whatever story you want to the media.
Unlike Mrs. Rice who is wife of the player, both Glory and Britney are professional basketball players seen as equal by the league (WNBA). They both represent the league. You assume there is a male/female role assumption here. The league does not. It sees them as two women players that got into an altercation. If one is the wife, so is the other. They both punched and hit each other. The punishment was just. As you can see, one wife decided to still get pregnant and marry he fellow player. The WNBA does not see a victim here. No one is stalking the other. They see two players who are behaving in an irresponsible manner detrimental to the league.
Sounds like they both need a good psychiatrist….for many reasons.
Idiots happened.
The looks on their moms’ faces say a lot. Lol.
The Mom in the dusty pink dress looks like “this is not going to end well………..”
Lol! So true.
Wow, never a peep out of Britney while she was at Baylor. Not one whiff of scandal here in central
Texas. Trust me, my town loves to talk, word would have gotten out.
This will be a total train wreck especially if there is a baby involved
I wonder how much protection Baylor gave her? But seriously zero gossip leaked out about her. Everyone who ran into her on campus or out and about always spoke quite highly of her.
I heard Baylor officials made her stay in the closet?
Yes, I always thought she was squeaky clean and a good role model for kids. I wonder if she just got mixed up with the wrong person or if she just isn’t as perfect as her image suggested?
What a minute, what about the fact that she was rumored to have smoked weed before the final 4 Kentucky game? Or for that Texas Tech girl she punched in the face that time? As much as I loved how she played…and she IS one of the best, she certainly had her scandals.
Btw, I will be in Waco at the wedding for Makenzie and Clay in July. Kim Mulkey is my cousin.
When I saw them on” Say Yes to the Dress”( don’t judge me for watching this show 🙂 ) I had a bad feeling about this couple.
My G-ma watches that show & I caught the Brittney /Glory episode with her. You’re right, the dynamic seemed ‘off’. They didn’t come across as a loving, supportive pair of equals preparing for marriage. I thought they seemed very codependent and competitive at the same time (I’m sure that doesn’t make sense?)
Bedhead- Sorry to be that person, but the picture of the woman in the Lady Vols jersey is not Glory Johnson. That’s Izzy Harrison, a recent graduate who isn’t involved in the situation to the best of my knowledge.
I came to say the same exact thing, glad you beat me to it.
I was wondering about that too. 🙂
Yeah, I was like how is that woman involved in this mess and who is she? Lol
Mess.
Let’s see how the child custody issues go since Brittney isn’t biologically related to the child. Glory should probably examine her choices carefully and not try to make this work since clearly they’re incredibly toxic together.
Damn…this is like a soap opera…too bad for the baby, it’s true…
I realize that Glory is also a B Ball player, but I am still hoping that all this rushed timeline is not about money, particularly Britney’s potential future income. From what I have learned about Britney, she is by far the ‘it’ girl right now as far as up and comers. She has the height, body type and skill set to potentially make enormous amounts of money with salary & endorsements. Which makes her a target. I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, but the immediate baby announcement raises a red flag.
Hmmm didn’t think about that but you may be on to something…
This has to be the most attention the WNBA has gotten… Ever. (Outside of those who follow the sport).
My friend just posted a link to an article where Glory said she was a straight female until she met Brit… Now, this might make a lot more sense to speculation that Glory did indeed become pregnant the old fashioned way, this leading to the fight, & then pressured Brit (the seemingly *it* basketball star) to try to save both their careers & go through with the marriage/family.
TMZ said Glory was NOT pregnant at the time of the assault.
That means she’s announcing her pregnancy at roughly the one-month mark. That’s quite atypical; most people wait to the three-month mark.
Although an athlete may need to announce her pregnancy sooner, because it affects her team and career, I have to wonder if this announcement was a last ditch attempt to keep the annulment from happening.
Best wishes to the child, and may the adults get their heads and hearts sorted out soon too.
This has to be one of the most bizarre stories yet. Since that incident in China, something seems odd about Griner, then this. She needs to get it together. You never heard scandals about before so this is just odd. I saw a short clip on their televised wedding dress shopping and knew then things were not going to end well. You don’t know what, you just know. There is need to live private lives on social media, but this is just messy as it comes. I’m not sure the WNBA welcomes this sort of distraction.
“Home and injury free.” Like that’s some sort of huge feat. Good grief