For nearly two months, former Belmont basketball star Kerron Johnson has been stuck in Romania, unable to arrange a trip home. His wife is nearly eight months pregnant, waiting for him to return to Huntsville, Alabama, from a professional basketball season that’s spiraled into a quagmire of red tape and frustration.
As the days slip by with hours spent on hold with airlines and the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Johnson is petrified he’s going to miss the birth of their first child because of travel restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To me, that’s my worst fear,” Johnson told Yahoo Sports by phone from Romania on Thursday.