BOSSIP Exclusive: Brittney Griner To Pay Child Support To Glory Johnson

Brittney Griner Will Start Paying For Her Daughters’ Upkeep

Former WNBA star Brittney Griner has finally agreed to begin financially supporting her twin baby girls with estranged wife Glory Johnson.

Griner will start paying Johnson $2,516 in child support beginning May 1, after the pair appeared via telephone for a hearing April 14 on their divorce in Maricopa County Superior Court.

The child support is part of a larger settlement package that the pair agreed to in an Arizona court last week, which will also cover medical expenses and childcare for the couple’s daughters, Ava Simone and Solei Diem.

Griner – who the court found is making $1.1 million a year – will also pay 90 percent of Johnson’s childcare costs, or an extra $2,835 a month for two nannies. Griner’s childcare contribution will decrease as the girls get older, according to the hearing minutes. She’ll also have to pay Johnson $8,505 in back childcare expenses.

The dreadlocked baller is now responsible for 90 percent of the twins’ healthcare costs not covered by insurance, but will get to claim them as dependents on her taxes for the next four years.

Johnson has to pay the remaining 10 percent.

The babies, who were born four months premature and were hospitalized for months after their birth, “require round the clock care,” Judge Timothy Thomason wrote, according to court records.

“While Ms. Johnson can certainly provide some care herself, she needs significant assistance, especially during the upcoming WNBA season,” the judge wrote.

Griner didn’t deny that she needed to pay for childcare, but did dispute the amount that she had to pay.

Johnson – who revealed she now makes $125,000 a year – testified that her relatives have been helping her care for the baby girls, and needed more money to pay them a “reasonable rate,” according to the hearing minutes.