Vanessa Bryant, long-suffering wife of Kobe Bryant, allegedly lost her shit on ESPN.com reporter Laura Lane. Lane made the mistake of writing a few statements about the bizarre purple tutu Vanessa wore to the Laker’s game the night Kobe picked up his MVP award.
Shortly after the piece was published, Vanessa laid into the reporter as she was leaving the Laker’s dressing room after game two of the San Antonio series.
So as I’m walking out of the Lakers locker room after some post-game interviews with the players, I pass Vanessa, who is sitting outside the locker room as usual with her two girls.
“Laura!” she screams (yes, she apparently knows my name). “Fuck you! You fucking bitch!”
“Excuse me?” I say, completely baffled as I look around me to see if there is someone else named Laura. No, there’s not.
Her daughters – ages 5 and 2 – are sitting next to her on the bench looking at their mom as she screams.
[More f-words ensue. Many more.]
I just stare at her. I’ve heard many stories about her from reporters, but this was unbelievable. Two of my friends from the LA Times told me how she cussed out one of them last season, because he said hi to her daughter. “Join the club, this means you’ve arrived,” said one reporter when word spread of my run-in with Vanessa. “She’s insane,” said another. “Everyone knows it.”
The sad part is before all of this I kind of liked Vanessa and I thought we hit it off. She doesn’t give a fuck about anything. She wears these insane outfits, struts around Staples Center like a queen, shows off her daughters and lets them run around the hall way playing tag while reporters are trying to get by….As a journalist I am going to piss people off. That’s just the nature of the business. I never want to or intend to piss people off, but if you’re not pissing people off occasionally, then you are constantly kissing ass.
Rule number one in basketball: never ridicule a basketball wife’s tutu. That shit is sacred.
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May 28th, 2008 at 10:40 am
It’s not like everyone doesn’t already know that bitch is crazy anyway. I mean shit, she stayed with a rapist because he bought her a whole bunch of jewelry. You can’t expect much from someone who will be bought like that.
Also, that tutu looks stupid and the reporter was right to call her out on it.
Kobe and his wife are both assholes.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Any broad that would wear that in public is a nutter. In fact, most sportswives are emotional retards whose lives peaked at age 17.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Listen you little bitch. I fucking hate you you ugly ass whore. Leave myself and my family alone.