Basketball Wives alum Brittish Williams details her past gambling addiction, which she says led to her criminal behavior, in a new interview with Carlos King. Page Six has the details.
Brittish was sentenced to four years in prison in October 2023 after years of fraudulent, criminal behavior caught up to her. On Carlos’ podcast, Reality with the King, the reality star said it all began with her addiction. “That [gambling] addiction had a lot of domino effects to things that would occur,” she said.
“No one even knows this besides my family and friends. I used to have a very, very bad gambling problem, horrible,” she confesses. “Like when you think about people … being on drugs or people … being alcoholics, I don’t think there is anything worse than gambling.”
Brittish lost $50,000 in two days due to gambling
As Brittish continued, she revealed the time she lost $50,000 during the height of her addiction. And to make things worse, it was over Christmas.
“It was really an addiction that I literally had to wean myself from. And on top of having my lifestyle and, you know, just everything that I was used to doing and having this addiction was horrible,” she explained.
“I remember being just at Christmas one year and losing almost $50,000, like, in two days. It was horrible.”
While committing her crimes, Brittish collected 15 felonies, including misuse of a Social Security Number, bank fraud, and wire fraud. In addition to her upcoming prison sentence, the judge ordered her to pay restitution of $565,000.
After her sentencing, the United States Attorney’s Office issued its own statement, throwing a little shade at the now-former reality star.
“Brittish Williams was getting paid to portray her celebrity lifestyle on Basketball Wives when in fact, she was a typical fraudster,” Special Agent Jay Greenberg said. “After today’s sentencing, her reality is now a life of a felon.”
It’s unknown when Brittish will report to prison to begin her sentence, but we’ll be here to discuss when it goes down.
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