'GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE'
Vanessa Bryant’s mom says daughter ‘has kicked her out of their home and demanded she give car back’ after Kobe’s death
VANESSA Bryant’s mother is accusing her daughter of telling her to “get out” of the house after NBA star Kobe Bryant’s death.
Sofia Laine also claims that her daughter, who was married to for nearly two decades, ordered her to give a vehicle back as well.
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“She told me, ‘I need you to get out of this house,’” on Univision’s ‘El Gorda y La Flaca’ show on Monday.
“She also told me that she wanted her car and she wants it now.”
Laine shed tears as she spoke to the interviewer, Dave Valadez.
A preview of the show teased over the weekend did not reveal what led to the apparent falling out between the mother and daughter.
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A legal representative for Vanessa Bryant did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Sun on Monday night.
Laine lived in one of the several homes the Bryant family owns in Newport Beach and the coast, before it was sold in 2013.
The mother-of-four often looked very close to Kobe Bryant—who admitted his relationship with his parents was strained—and would wait outside his Los Angeles Lakers locker room in 2015.
Laine appeared with in a family photo last Thanksgiving that the basketball legend shared on his Instagram.
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Kobe Bryant, 41, and his daughter Gianna Bryant, 13, died in a helicopter crash in January in Calabasas, California.
After Kobe Bryant’s death, Laine helped her daughter with her grandchildren, Natalia, 17, Bianka, 3, and Capri, 7 months old, a source told Us Weekly.
The source said Vanessa Bryant “is incredibly close to her mom” and that Laine was “her rock” in the weeks following her husband’s unexpected death.
“Her mom is always with her and the girls and she's been keeping Vanessa strong and she's the weight of her support system,” the source said.
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Vanessa Bryant’s stepfather, Stephen Laine, compared her to her mother in 2011 when Vanessa and Kobe Bryant nearly divorced over multiple alleged infidelities.
“Her mother taught her well to wait for the 10-year mark,” Stephen Laine said.
It is not know where Sofia Laine is currently residing.
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