Love *IS* real. “She saved my life. I would not have this chance if not for her and her wonderful family. She saved my life and I cannot say it better than that”
Maya Moore. Photo: David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images Jonathan Irons had served 22 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit when he was freed in July of this year — thanks, in part, to the tireless advocacy of WNBA star Maya Moore, who shocked fans when she quit her team in 2018 to devote herself fully to the cause.
Moore is a WNBA superstar and Olympic gold medalist who led her team, the Minnesota Lynx, to four WNBA championships between 2011 and 2018. Fans were shocked when she decided to leave the Lynx at the end of the 2018 season. Moore was at the peak of her career, though she said she was feeling burned out. She was also deeply committed to helping free Irons, who she’d met through her family when she was 18. She wanted to advocate for criminal justice reform.
Moore and Irons grew close over the years; she helped pay for the defense team that finally got Irons’s conviction vacated by a judge back in March. When Irons was released from the Jefferson City Correctional Center in July, Moore and her family were waiting for him outside. Moore, overjoyed, fell to her knees when she saw him.
“I wanted to marry her but, at the same time, protect her. Because being in a relationship with a man in prison, it’s extremely difficult and painful,” he said. “And I didn’t want her to feel trapped. I wanted her to feel open and [to] have the ability any time … if this is too much for you, go and find somebody. Live your life. Because this is hard.”
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