Vanessa Bryant reveals the nightmare of the tragedy: "I live in terror"
Kobe Bryant's widow testified for three hours at the trial about the photos from the site of the tragic crash, and revealed: the hard news and the rumors, the sleepless nights and the desire to "escape the body"
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20/08/2022
Saturday, August 20, 2022, 3:58 p.m. Updated: 7:05 p.m.
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Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash at the age of 41 (Editor: Shaul Adam)
Vanessa Bryant revealed the personal nightmare and "horror" she went through after the tragic death of her partner Kobe Bryant and their daughter Jeanie.
Vanessa testified yesterday (Friday) and revealed that she was just beginning to grieve the loss of her husband and 13-year-old daughter, when she suddenly had to deal with the horrifying news when she learned that sheriff's deputies and firefighters had documented the disaster and shared photos of the bodies from the scene of the helicopter crash that killed them.
"I felt like I wanted to run, run down the street and just scream," she said tearfully in court, "It was like the feeling of wanting to run down the pier and jump into the water. The problem is that I can't run away. I can't run away from my body."
During her three hours on the witness stand in a Los Angeles court, where she is suing Los Angeles County for invasion of privacy over the photos, Bryant talked about her difficulties in publicly dealing with the tragedy, saying she had to fight with herself to get through all the ceremonies. and the public, public and private memorials to the disaster that killed seven more people who were killed in the disaster on January 26, 2020.
She said she already thought she was ready to really begin the grieving process about a month later.
But one day, while she was with her surviving friends and daughters and "holding" her seven-month-old daughter, she got an update about a Los Angeles Times publication of photos of the crash site.
"I ran out of the house, and I ran to the side so my daughters wouldn't see me," she said.
"I was finished again, devastated, hurt. I trusted them. I trusted them not to do these things."
Evidence presented at trial showed that a sheriff's deputy showed a photo of Bryant's body to Barman while he was drinking at a local bar, prompting another man who had been drinking nearby to file a formal complaint.
It also turned out that a number of firefighters shared the photos with each other on several occasions, and others shared them with spouses.
The district attorney said the photos were only taken because they were essential for professional use for the crime scene analysis moments after the crash, and claimed that when Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva learned they were shared, he demanded they be deleted.
None of the photos have been made public, but Vanessa Bryant said she has a constant worry that some may still be made public.
"I live in fear every day of being on social networks and they will suddenly pop up," she testified.
"I live in fear that my daughters will be on social media and suddenly these photos will pop up."
According to her, the thought hurts her, and disturbs her sleep at night.
She testified that she lies next to her 3- and 5-year-old daughters, and sometimes suffers from anxiety attacks because of which she cannot breathe.
Panic attacks, can't breathe.
Bryant (Photo: GettyImages, Kevork Djansezian)
Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant, and their daughters (Photo: GettyImages)
On cross-examination, Bryant testified that she had not received any medical diagnosis of a problem with anxiety attacks, or any mental health disorder, nor had she been prescribed or taken medication for them.
The defense representative even showed the list of things that Vanessa Bryant does in her life - including serving as president of her husband's multimedia company, and overseeing the publication of two different books - and claimed that Bryant's ability to do all of these means that she is functioning well and has overcome fear and anxiety.
Vanessa cried and laughed alternately during the testimony, in the part where she told about her life with her husband, "the proud father of his daughters".
"He was just such a beautiful and devoted father," she said.
She described the day of the crash, her agony and frustration trying to figure out if her husband and daughter were still alive after initially hearing rumors that there were five survivors.
She described the moment the local sheriff confirmed to her that her husband and daughter had been killed.
He asked if there was anything he could do for her.
"I told him, if you can't get my babies back, then please secure the area," Bryant said.
"I'm worried about paparazzi."
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