Vanessa Bryant introduced TIME magazine’s In Memoriam segment on Thursday night, which included her late husband Kobe Bryant and Gianna “Gigi” Bryant.
The Lakers legend and the couple’s teenage daughter were two of nine people who perished in a helicopter crash in southern California in late January.
She delivered a heartfelt speech in a pre-recorded video during an NBC primetime special, which introduced TIME‘s Person of the Year. “Words cannot do justice to the grief we felt this year.
At every level of human connection from across the world to across the table, we experienced profound loss,” Vanessa, 38, began. “We said goodbye to husbands, daughters, wives, sons, grandparents, friends and national heroes.
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