Nearly six months after being released from Osaka Prefectural Police custody, Dana Washington, wife of bj-league legend and former Osaka Evessa star Lynn Washington, decided it was time to tell her side of the story.

During an exclusive interview with The Japan Times earlier this week, Dana Washington spoke for the first time about her arrest on drug charges in February and the traumatizing weeks that preceded her May 25 release.

She described those three months as "horrible," saying it was the first time she'd been away from her three children for an extended period of time. But also adding to her emotional turmoil was the fact, she said, that the Evessa "abandoned (me) . . . were embarrassed to even know my name."