Basketball superstar’s widow posts about devastation of losing husband and daughter
![Vanessa Bryant speaks for first time of loss of Kobe and Gianna](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e8b4e9525bb998191d44cdf544fce7cffd640582/0_171_2554_1532/master/2554.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=59e6ff32159c7f6be46fc8533e3b8ee2)
Three days after the
Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others died in a helicopter crash, his wife, Vanessa, has spoken for the first time, saying on
Instagram she was completely devastated by their loss.
The message was posted alongside a recent family photograph of Kobe and Vanessa Bryant with their four daughters: Gianna, Natalia, 17, three-year-old Bianka and Capri, born in June 2019.