Kobe Bryant Crash Widower Matt Mauser Crushes ‘AGT’

After sharing a devastating story about losing his wife in a helicopter crash, the same crash that killed Kobe Bryant and his daughter,  Matt Mauser puts his heart into a performance of “Against All Odds” by Phil Collins.

“I’m a singer, and I’m here because my wife … and we’re both schoolteachers and we retired from teaching so that I could do the music full-time, and she got the opportunity to coach girls basketball with Kobe Bryant. But on Jan. 26, 2020, I lost my wife in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant,” Mauser, of Huntington Beach, California, told judges ahead of his performance. “Before Jan. 26, me and Christina lived this dreamy kind of life. We met in 2004, she saw me playing at this dive bar and I asked her out and we sat in my car and we talked about music.”

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“She was just this very humble, powerful, beautiful human being,” he went on of his late wife. “We were so in love.”

“When she left that day she kissed me and she said ‘I love you.’ That was the last thing my wife ever said to me,” Mauser continued, becoming teary. “Your whole life changes in a second.”

Till the moment he last saw her, the pair were passionately committed to each other.

She and all who were lost to us that day need and deserve to be remembered as much as Kobe is.

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