Former Marine Trevor Reed recalled seeing violent inmates kill one another or commit suicide.
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Former Marine Trevor Reed admitted he gave up hope and feared being murdered whereas locked up in Moscow earlier than he was freed in a shock prisoner swap.
In his first interview since returning dwelling late final month, Reed, 30, mentioned he tried to “distract” himself from actuality through the practically 1,000 days he was held on trumped-up assault expenses.
“Lots of people aren't going to love what I’m gonna say about this, however I sort of seen having hope as being a weak point,” he informed CNN’s Jake Tapper in a teaser that aired Friday.
“I didn't wanna have that hope of … being launched someway after which have that taken from me,” he mentioned. “I wouldn’t let myself hope.”
Tapper requested Reed bluntly if he thought his Russian cellmates “would possibly kill” him.
“Yeah. I assumed that was a chance,” he mentioned.
Reed admitted the concern compelled him to remain awake at evening.
He additionally detailed the worst moments coming throughout sleepless nights in a psychiatric therapy facility the place he shared a cell with seven inmates who “all had extreme, psychological well being points.”
“Most of them — so over 50% of them in that cell — had been in there for homicide. Or a number of murders, sexual assault and homicide — simply actually disturbed people,” Reed informed Tapper.
“There was blood everywhere in the partitions there — the place prisoners had killed themselves, or killed different prisoners, or tried to try this,” Reed mentioned within the interview, “Lastly House,” set to air in full Sunday evening.
“The bathroom’s only a gap within the flooring. And there’s, you recognize, crap in all places, everywhere in the flooring, on the partitions.
“There are individuals in there additionally that stroll round that appear to be zombies,” he recalled.
“I imply, I didn't sleep there for a few days — I used to be too apprehensive about who was within the cell with me to really sleep,” he mentioned of the ordeal.
Reed had been behind bars since 2019, serving a nine-year sentence on expenses he assaulted two cops in Moscow, who had been driving him to a police station after a celebration the place he reportedly bought blackout drunk.
The US ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, on the time referred to as it “ridiculous” that Reed was imprisoned “for an alleged crime that so clearly didn't happen.”
“This was theater of the absurd,” he mentioned of Reed’s trial.
The timing of the eventual swap was all of the extra shocking provided that it got here amid heightened tensions with the Kremlin following its invasion of Ukraine and threats to the US to not get entangled.
However he was freed in a swap for Konstantin Yaroshenko, 53, a Russian pilot whom the US has dubbed “an skilled worldwide drug trafficker.”
The pair had been seen crossing paths on the tarmac of an airport in Turkey in scenes Reed’s father, Joey Reed, informed CNN had been “such as you see within the motion pictures.”
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