Vanessa Bryant Blasts Evan Rachel Wood For Calling Kobe Bryant 'Rapist' After His Death

Vanessa Bryant is taking issue with a "vile" and "disturbing" tweet Evan Rachel Wood posted about her husband, Kobe Bryant, on the day he passed away.

More than a year after her husband and daughter Gianna died in a helicopter crash that killed seven others, Bryant revealed on her Instagram story Saturday that she just learned that Wood called Kobe a "rapist." The NBA legend's widow claimed the "Westworld" star slandered Kobe and exemplified structural racism in the criminal justice system.

"Your false, insensitive, defamatory and slanderous tweet on 1/26/20 is vile and disturbing to say the least," Bryant wrote on her post, obtained by Page Six. "Behavior like this is part of the reason why innocent black men go to jail for crimes they didn’t commit. An accusation doesn’t make someone guilty. YOU DO NOT KNOW THE FACTS OF THE CASE."

Wood's tweet, which has since been deleted from her page, said, "What has happened is tragic. I am heartbroken for Kobe’s family. He was a sports hero. He was also a rapist. And all of these truths can exist simultaneously."

Bryant also had the same message for documentary producer Abigail Disney, who wrote of Kobe last year, "The man was a rapist. Deal with it."

Kobe was accused of sexual assault by a 19-year-old hotel employee in 2003. The basketball star, who was already married to Vanessa at the time, had initially denied having sex with the woman but later told police that their encounter had been consensual. His accuser, however, claimed it had been violent and not consensual.

Prosecutors dropped the charges after the accuser declined to testify. However, she later brought a civil case against the Los Angeles Lakers player that was settled out of court two years later in 2005.

Kobe later released a public apology, which read, in part: "Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person, I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter."

Meanwhile, Wood had received intense backlash last year for her tweet, with fans defending Kobe and pointing out that he was cleared of the criminal charge.

"And this is where the Me too movement has gotten out of control... attacking a man who literally just died less than 24 hours ago, with his little girl!" one Twitter user asked Wood at the time.

"Your gonna turn #MeToo into a joke. These things need to be taken seriously and your just looking for attention after him and his daughter JUST died. Wow. ERW, Amazing Actress, shes also an narcissistic disappointment," another added.

In other news, Wood named her ex-fiancé, Marilyn Manson, as her alleged abuser in a post on Instagram earlier this month.

Wood claimed that he groomed her when she was just a teenager and abused her for years. She was allegedly brainwashed and manipulated in submission. The actress also said she received threats from Manson's wife over the release of her underage photos.