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Vanessa Bryant broke down on the stand Friday as she recalled the harrowing moment she first learned that graphic images of her late-NBA legend husband’s gory helicopter crash scene had been leaked by first responders.
The 40-year-old sobbed heavily and gasped for air in the Los Angeles courtroom as she testified how she had to run outside her home so her surviving daughters wouldn’t see her cry after reading a local media report about the leaked photos.
“I felt like I wanted to run down the block and scream,” Bryant, who said she was breastfeeding her youngest at the time, told the court. “I can’t escape my body. I can’t escape what I feel.”
Bryant added that she suffers panic attacks over the fear that the gory images of her husband and 13-year-old daughter Gianna’s mangled remains could one day surface online.
