Vanessa Bryant Finds Card Kobe Wrote Her Before His Death

May 6, 2020

Vanessa Bryant says she recently discovered a card that her late husband Kobe had written for her before his death earlier this year.

NBA player Kobe Bryant (R) and Vanessa Bryant attend EIF Womens Cancer Research Funds 16th Annual An Unforgettable Evening presented by Saks Fifth Avenue at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on May 2, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Donato Sardella/Getty Images for EIF)

Vanessa Bryant said she recently discovered a card that her late husband Kobe Bryant had written for her before his death earlier this year.

“Yesterday I found an envelope labeled To: The Love of my Life. From, Tu Papi,” Vanessa wrote on Instagram Monday. “The irony is that Kobe had a photo of me drawn with an Angel holding me up by an artist on the cover.”

Bryant, whose 38th birthday was Tuesday, said she decided to wait until the milestone to open “one more letter” from her late husband, who, along with her daughter, Gianna, died in a helicopter crash in January.