https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wrestling-in-with-kobe-bryants-forgotten-apology/


And I don't post that to make a case for Kobe being a terrible person or unworthy of our grief. I have been grieving his death, and more deeply grieving the death of Gigi. But I don't believe in the deification of people when they die. We have to deal with their complexities.
I don't think it's necessary or helpful to ask these questions of someone who was close to him, who is grieving him on that level, but I also don't think those questions get wiped away because someone dies.