Los Angeles, CA. (THECOUNT) — It’s the ones left behind..
Shaquille O’Neal has not been able to eat or sleep since the passing of his teammate, Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi.
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“I haven’t eaten. I haven’t slept. I’m looking at all the tapes, but I’m sick right now.”
“This one’s gonna hurt for a long, long time,” he continued. “I just wish he was here. I wish I could say something to him. My heart goes out to Vanessa because she lost two. I have a little brother, but I lost a brother yesterday.”
Although to the two athletes had feuded in the past, they remained close prior to Bryant’s death, and O’Neal said they were “brothers” who loved each other’s children.
In fact, according to an Instagram Story posted by O’Neal’s wife, Shaunie O’Neal, Bryant and Gianna watched the O’Neals’ 13-year-old daughter, Me’arah, play a basketball game just one day before they died. Bryant also checked up on O’Neal’s son, Shareef, to see how he was doing an hour prior to the crash.
The impact of Bryant’s death is already in motion for O’Neal, who shared that he had made amends with people following the news, in a bid to “delete my beef and confrontation clause.”
“I don’t want to do that anymore because, you never know. So yesterday I just called all the people I had discrepancies with and said, ‘Look man, I love you,’” he shared. “And, we didn’t talk much over the phone, but I just wish we did. We’re sort of similar guys — family first, business and ‘I’ll see you when I see you.’ I have a lot of best friends, but I don’t do the mushy talking on the phone thing,” reports Click2Houston.
O’Neal’s podcast came after he shared several tributes to Bryant on social media.”There’s no words to express the pain I’m going through now with this tragic and sad moment of loosing my friend, my brother, my partner in winning championships, my dude and my homie,” he wrote in one post. “I love you brother and you will be missed.”
“My condolences goes out to the Bryant family and the families of the other passengers on board,” he added. “IM SICK RIGHT NOW!”