Vanessa Bryant says Evan Rachel Wood calls her late husband, Kobe Bryant, “rapist” “the day he died” shameful and “” disturbing.
Hours after Kobe’s death on January 26, 2020, the “Westworld” actress (33) tweeted: “What happened is tragic. I’m sad for Kobe’s family. He was a sports hero. He was also a rapist. And all these truths can exist at the same time. ‘
Vanessa, 38, posted on her Instagram story on Saturday that the tweet came to her attention more than a year later.
FILE – In this April 13, 2016 file photo, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers poses with his wife Vanessa, left, and daughters Natalia, second from right, and Gianna as they stand on the field after an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz, in Los Angeles. Kobe Bryant’s legacy is perhaps stronger than ever before. Tuesday, January 26, 2021 is the anniversary of the accident that took the lives of Bryant, Gianna and seven other people. (AP Photo / Mark J. Terrill, file)
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“Your false, insensitive, defamatory and defamatory tweet on 26/2/20 was, to say the least, shameful and disturbing,” the NBA player’s widow wrote about a screenshot of the original tweet. “Behavior like this is part of the reason why innocent black men go to jail for crimes they did not commit.” An accusation does not make someone guilty. ‘
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“YOU DON’T KNOW THE FACTS OF THE CASE,” she added. Vanessa sent the same message to filmmaker Abigail Disney, who at the time tweeted, “The man was a rapist. Go with it.”
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Kobe was accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old hotel employee in Colorado in 2003. Prosecutors dismissed the charges after the prosecutor refused to testify. She later filed a civil lawsuit against the Los Angeles Laker, which was settled out of court in 2005.
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