Vanessa Bryant‘s recent tribute to her late husband and daughter includes sweet family footage from a 2015 documentary.
On Thursday night, Vanessa, 37, shared a clip from the documentaryKobe Bryant’s Muse. The emotional footage showed basketball legendKobe Bryantplaying around at home with Vanessa and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, as well as their family dog.
“Missing you both so much,” she captionedthe post. The caption also included lyrics to theBeyoncésong “XO,” which played over the footage.
During the memorial, Vanessa also bravely took the stage to give aheartbreaking eulogy for her late husbandand daughter, who died in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26 along with seven others.
Duringher eulogy, Vanessa shared touching stories of her daughter, who was a budding basketball player with dreams of making it to the WNBA. She noted that the young athlete “was very competitive like her daddy,” but that “Kobe always said she was me — she had my fire, my personality and sarcasm, but she was tender and loving on the inside.”
Vanessa also called her “soulmate” Kobe “the MVP of girl dads, or MVD,” and spoke about the valuable lessons he left for her and their three surviving daughters — Natalia, 17, Bianka, 3, and Capri, 8 months.
Vanessa Bryant.FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty
“God knew they couldn’t be on this earth without each other. He had to bring them home to have them together,” Vanessa said, before telling her late husband, “Babe, you take care of our Gigi. And I got Nani, B.B. and Koko. We’re still the best team. May you both rest in peace and have fun in Heaven until we meet again one day. We love you both and miss you. Forever and always, Mommy.”
Kobe and Vanessa Bryant with family.Vanessa Bryant/Instagram
“She spent a lot of time on that, to say the exact right thing,”a source later told PEOPLEof Vanessa’s speech. “It took everything she had.”
Monday’s memorial and celebration of life also honored the seven other victims of the crash:John Altobelli,Keri Altobelli, Alyssa Altobelli,Sarah Chester, Payton Chester,Christina Mauserand pilotAra Zobayan.
If you would like to help the families of the victims of the crash, consider donating to theMamba on Three Fund. Contributions to theMamba & Mambacita Sports Foundationwill help support youth sports.
source: people.com
