Backstage Kobe Bryant is greeted with cheers and a few boos, then receives solely softball questions about his transition from athlete to writer, with no questions about the rape accusation, #MeToo or Time’s Up.
“This sense of validation, it’s crazy man,” he smiled. “The hardest thing for athletes when starting over is you have to quiet the ego.. learn the basics of things. My advice to athletes is find something you want to do then everything else tends to make sense.”
Underscoring the blurred lines in Hollywood’s sexual misconduct backlash, Bryant lauded two figureheads of the female empowerment – Oprah Winfrey and Shonda Rhimes – as mentors. “When you have mentors like that in your life.. everything tends to work itself out.”
Bryant gets a high-five as he walks out to applause and grimaces from some journalists who didn’t get to ask questions.
Source : theguardian
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