【50個冷知識系列】Kobe Bryant親自闡述到底是怎樣跟妻子Vanessa邂逅

Kobe Bryant是怎樣跟妻子Vanessa走在一起的？原來Kobe在1999年拍攝嘻哈音樂錄影時愛上了一同拍攝的Vanessa，並慢慢與她走在一起。

洛杉磯湖人隊傳奇球員在90年代後期涉足音樂界，他在2015年的一段Showtime紀錄片中說，那就是他遇見Vanessa Urbieta Cornejo Laine（Kobe Bryant的妻子）的地方。

引用Kobe Bryant帶點自嘲說：「對於不知道的人來說，是的！我曾經是一名說唱歌手，在音樂事業上嶄露頭角。雖然沒持續一段很長的時間，但我確實製作了一個錄影。在錄影中，我是第一次遇見了Vanessa。這是一個為期兩天的錄影，我一直在留意她，例如我想知道她在哪裏。每當我拍完一幕之後我會回到車裏，但我會一直想知道她在哪裡。然後我又會走出來，只想在拍攝之間多和她談話。」

Laughing about his attempts, Kobe said: "For those that don’t know, yes, I had budding music career as a rapper. It didn’t last long, but I did make a video. On the video set is where I first met Vanessa.

"It was a two-day video shoot, and I was always looking for her, like I wanted to know where she was. I would finish a take and go to my trailer but I would wonder where she was the entire time."

Kobe continued: "Then I would come out of the trailer and just wanted to talk to her some more, in between takes and stuff like that."

最終，Kobe Bryant主動向Vanessa詢問了她的電話號碼，他們的戀情在每天的電話交談中開花結果。他們同樣喜愛迪士尼，這讓他們最終走在一起。

引用Kobe繼續說道：「她真的太美了。幾乎所有事情我們都一起做。所有都在一起。我覺得我是個大傻瓜，因為我愛迪士尼樂園。我喜歡迪士尼電影和類似的東西，但是我從來沒有真正的機會去迪士尼樂園。而她也是迪士尼的忠實粉絲，我們過去經常去迪士尼樂園閒逛，經常去魔術山，她成了我最好的朋友。」

Kobe continued: "She was just beautiful. We literally did everything together. Everything together. And I thought I was a big dork because I loved Disneyland.

"I loved the Disney movies and things like that, but I never really had a chance to go to the park much.
"She was a big Disney fan, too, and we used to hang out as Disneyland, we used to go to Magic Mountain, she became my best friend."

儘管他們之間的關係越來越緊密，但Kobe對於這段關係仍然優柔寡斷，因為過去的自己使到他難以適應。

引用Kobe承認：「對我來說，擁有一個我如此親近的人的感覺是非常不同的，因為我真的習慣於孤立地成長。從一個地方搬到另一個地方，不停結交新朋友，我從來沒有真正向任何人交心，因為我知道我將不能避免要搬家。但是現在在洛杉磯，感覺就像我將在湖人渡過餘生，我遇到了這位美麗的女人，我對世界的看法也和她一致。」

Kobe admitted: "For me, it was very different to have somebody that I was so close to, because I had been so used to growing up in isolation, really."Moving around from place to place, making new friends all the time, so I never really opened up to anybody because I knew I was just going to inevitably move.

“But now, being in Los Angeles and feeling like I’m going to be a Laker for the rest of my life, I just met this beautiful woman that I just see the world the same way with."

Kobe和Vanessa終於2001年結婚，並繼續育有四個女兒，分別是17歲的Natalia，13歲的Gianna，13歲的Bianka和7個月的Capri。然而，Kobe在2020年1月26日的一次直升機墜毀意外中喪生，這也奪走了女兒Gianna和其他七個人的性命。

來源：https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/kobe-bryant-recalls-how-fell-21432444