Disney heiress Abigail Disney spoke out yet again about the late Kobe Bryant’s 2003 rape allegations.
Abigail Disney addressed the rape allegations against late NBA star Kobe Bryant in a 24-tweet thread on Saturday that urged people to avoid turning Bryant into a god.
The 60-year-old first tweeted back on January 29th where she shared an article from the Washington Post about allegations Bryant faced some 17 years ago, writing “The man was a rapist. Deal with it.”
After receiving a tremendous amount of backlash, she took to Twitter on Saturday and doubled down on her previous statement, offering new commentary on Bryant, who died January 26 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
“OK, time to bite the bullet and say something,” Disney said when she began her Twitter thread early Saturday morning. “If you don’t like it, just stop following. First of all, yes, it IS my business because I’m a woman who has herself been assaulted and spent my life knowing, loving and feeling for women for whom it’s been so much worse.”
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In the midst of her thread, she managed to praise Bryant: “I mourn Kobe too,” she wrote. “He went on to be a man who seemed genuinely to want to do good. The face[sic] that he raped someone does not change any of these other facts.”
Here’s the remaining thread:
In 2003, a 19-year-old woman accused him of sexually assaulting her while she was in Eagle, Colorado, for a knee operation. Bryant believed that they had consensual sex but the woman said it was rape.
The criminal case never went to trial as the woman refused to testify in court and Bryant reached a settlement with the woman in civil court for an undisclosed amount.
