She addressed a rapt, capacity-plus crowd inside Los Angeles’ Staples Center.
“He had to bring them home to heaven together.”
The widow, 37, has released a handful of social-media posts laying bare her pain since the January helicopter crash that killed her husband, their 13-year-old daughter and seven others, but had yet to speak publicly on her heartbreak.
Reading from prepared notes, she paused at moments to collect herself, but pressed forward with the steely resolve her husband exhibited for years on the hardwood, speaking first about the second of their four daughters.
“Gianna Bryant was an amazingly sweet and gentle soul,” she said. “She was one of my very best friends.
“I could feel her love me. I loved the way she looked up at me while hugging me,” she said. “It was as if she was soaking me all in.
“We shared the same cat-that-ate-the-canary grin. Gigi was sunshine.”
Bryant recalled Gianna’s love of watching baking and cooking shows with her — but the teen opted for “Survivor” and NBA games with her endlessly competitive father.
These farewell words from Vanessa to her husband Kobe Bryant broke my heart 💔😞:
"He was the early bird, I was the night owl. I was fire and he was ice, and vice versa at times. I have no idea how I deserved a man that loved and wanted me more than Kobe."
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