“For me, it’s a labor of love,” said Bryant, who remained calm and composed during cross-examination. “It sounds like on top of everything else you’re juggling a business empire,” Hashmall said at one point. Hashmall suggested that Bryant’s ability to do all of this meant she was functioning well and was not overcome with fear and anxiety. Hashmall spent much of her 90-minute cross-examination going through the business roles Bryant now plays, including acting as president of her husband’s multimedia company, Granity Studios, overseeing the publication of one book he wrote and helping to finish and publish another, heading the foundation started for Kobe and Gianna, and establishing several other companies. “I feel like sometimes it helps,” Bryant said, “but sometimes it’s completely draining.” She said she had talked to a therapist for about 18 months after the crash, but had not since. Mira Hashmall, the lawyer representing LA County at the trial, Bryant testified that she had not received any medical diagnosis of having had panic attacks, or any mental health disorder, nor had she taken any medications for them. She said the thought keeps her awake at night as she lies next to her 3-year-old and her 5-year-old, and sometimes leads to panic attacks in which she can’t breathe. “I live in fear of my daughters being on social media and these popping up.” “I live in fear every day of being on social media and these popping up,” she testified. No photos emerged publicly, but Vanessa Bryant said she has the constant worry that some still might. An attorney for the county said the photos had been taken only because they were essential for assessing the site moments after the crash, and that when LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva learned they were being shared, he demanded they all be deleted.
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I trusted them not to do these things.”Įvidence presented at trial showed that a sheriff’s deputy showed a photo of Bryant’s body to a bartender as he drank, spurring an official complaint from another man drinking nearby, and that firefighters shared them with each other at an awards banquet. “I was blindsided again, devastated, hurt. “I bolted out of the house and around to the side so my girls wouldn’t see,” she said. She was with friends and her surviving daughters, and holding her 7-month-old baby, when she received a call about a Los Angeles Times story on the crash-site photos. 26, 2020, and thought she was ready to really begin the grieving process about a month later.
I can’t escape my body.”ĭuring her three hours on the witness stand in a Los Angeles federal court, where she is suing LA County for invasion of privacy over the pictures, Bryant said she had fought to get through both public and private memorials for her loved ones and seven others who were killed Jan.
“It was like the feeling of wanting to run down a pier and jump into the water. “I felt like I wanted to run, run down the block and scream,” she said, her tears turning to sobs and her voice quickening.
LOS ANGELES > Vanessa Bryant testified today that she was only beginning to grieve the loss of her husband, basketball star Kobe Bryant, and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna when she was faced with the fresh horror of learning that sheriff’s deputies and firefighters had shot and shared photos of their bodies at the site of the helicopter crash that killed them.
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