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00:00 I'm Jill Pantor-Lopez here with our very own Melissa Roland.
00:06 Melissa, Natalia Bryant wished her mom, Vanessa Bryant, an emotional happy birthday.
00:11 What did she say in that message?
00:13 She said, "I am the Ethel to your Lucy."
00:16 She said she will always love Vanessa Bryant so much and she praised her for her strength.
00:21 Yesterday was obviously a very hard day for Vanessa Bryant to celebrate her birthday without
00:26 Kobe and without her daughter Gianna.
00:28 This was the first time that she had to go through this and obviously there was a recent
00:32 barrage of events with Gianna's birthday and her and Kobe's anniversary recently.
00:37 So it's obviously been an extremely emotional time for Vanessa.
00:41 It was really heartwarming to see the outpouring of love and support for Vanessa.
00:45 She retweeted a lot of photos and videos of people sending flowers, Pau Gasol sent her
00:51 some shoes.
00:53 And what was especially interesting was she revealed that she found a recent letter that
00:58 Kobe had written her before he had died in a helicopter crash and she saved it until
01:02 her birthday to open it.
01:04 And she said that on the cover of the letter was an illustration of her wearing angel wings,
01:09 which was pretty ironic and also pretty poetic.
01:14 Very emotional.