On Saturday, Vanessa Bryant blasted Evan Rachel Wood after discovering a year-old tweet from her calling her late husband Kobe Bryant a rapist.
On January 26, 2019, Wood wrote a tweet that said, “What has happened is tragic. I am heartbroken for Kobe’s family,” before adding the following controversial statement, “He was a sports hero, he was also a rapist, and all of these truths can exist simultaneously.” The tweet was posted on the same day that Bryant died in a helicopter crash.
Wood has since deactivated her Twitter account five months after the tweet was published. Vanessa was not aware of the tweet made by Wood until Saturday. Bryant posted an Instagram story and said, “Your false, insensitive, defamatory and slanderous tweet on 1/26/20 is vile and disturbing, to say the least.” She continued, “Behavior like this is part of the reason why innocent black men go to jail for crimes they didn’t commit. An accusation doesn’t make someone guilty. YOU DON’T KNOW THE FACTS OF THE CASE.”
In July 2003, the NBA star was charged with sexual assault of a 19-year-old hotel employee. The employee alleged that the All-Star had raped her, to which Byrant disagreed, saying that it was consensual. Prosecutors dropped the charges in 2004 after the victim refused to testify.
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