{"id":288029,"date":"2020-02-10T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1121728"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:45:00","slug":"vanessa-bryant-my-brain-refuses-to-accept-that-gianna-and-kobe-are-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/vanessa-bryant-my-brain-refuses-to-accept-that-gianna-and-kobe-are-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Bryant: My Brain &#8220;Refuses to Accept&#8221; That Gianna and Kobe Are Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.968321013728\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"29.19535374868\">\n<p><strong>Vanessa Bryant<\/strong> continues to mourn the loss of her husband, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kobe_bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong>, and daughter, <strong>Gianna &#8220;Gigi&#8221; Bryant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been just over two weeks since the Los Angeles Lakers legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1115883\/kobe-bryant-s-13-year-old-daughter-also-dead-in-helicopter-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed away in a helicopter crash<\/a> with Gigi and seven others in Calabasas, Calif. In the days following their deaths, Vanessa, who is also mom to daughters <strong>Natalia Bryant<\/strong>, <strong>Bianka Bryant<\/strong> and <strong>Capri Kobe Bryant<\/strong>, took to Instagram to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1115880\/vanessa-bryant-breaks-her-silence-on-kobe-bryant-and-daughter-gianna-s-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pay tribute to Kobe and Gianna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My girls and I want to thank the millions of people who&#8217;ve shown support and love during this horrific time. Thank you for all the prayers. We definitely need them,&#8221; Vanessa wrote. &#8220;We are completely devastated by the sudden loss of my adoring husband, Kobe \u2014 the amazing father of our children; and my beautiful, sweet Gianna \u2014 a loving, thoughtful, and wonderful daughter, and amazing sister to Natalia, Bianka, and Capri.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Vanessa took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B8ZavYwDZ5y\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> to share a video of Gianna playing basketball.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been reluctant to put my feelings into words. My brain refuses to accept that both Kobe and Gigi are gone,&#8221; Vanessa wrote alongside the video on Monday. &#8220;I can&#8217;t process both at the same time. It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m trying to process Kobe being gone but my body refuses to accept my Gigi will never come back to me. It feels wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why should I be able to wake up another day when my baby girl isn&#8217;t being able to have that opportunity?! I&#8217;m so mad,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;She had so much life to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.753012048193\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020026\/rs_634x817-200126115734-634-Kobe-Bryant-Family-2020.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant, Natalia Bryant, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, Family\" alt=\"Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant, Natalia Bryant, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, Family\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"9.6314102564103\">\n<p>&#8220;Then I realize I need to be strong and be here for my 3 daughters. Mad I&#8217;m not with Kobe and Gigi but thankful I&#8217;m here with Natalia, Bianka and Capri,&#8221; Vanessa told her social media followers. &#8220;I know what I&#8217;m feeling is normal. It&#8217;s part of the grieving process. I just wanted to share in case there&#8217;s anyone out there that&#8217;s experienced a loss like this. God I wish they were here and this nightmare would be over. Praying for all of the victims of this horrible tragedy. Please continue to pray for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1118007\/kobe-bryant-s-public-memorial-set-for-february-24-all-the-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public memorial service<\/a> for Kobe and Gigi will be held on Feb. 24 at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1121728\/vanessa-bryant-says-her-brain-refuses-to-accept-that-gianna-and-kobe-bryant-are-gone?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Bryant continues to mourn the loss of her husband, Kobe Bryant, and daughter, Gianna &#8220;Gigi&#8221; Bryant. It&#8217;s been just over two weeks since the Los Angeles Lakers legend passed away in a helicopter crash with Gigi and seven others in Calabasas, Calif. In the days following their deaths, Vanessa, who is also mom to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-29 17:20:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}