Vanessa Bryant fought back tears as she honored her late husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant and her 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, during a public memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

She began the eulogy by taking about her sweet “baby girl,” Gianna who she described as a “sweet and gentle soul.”

“Gigi was my sunshine,” Bryant said. “She brightened up my day every day.”

She also talked about how her baby girl was energetic, fiercely intelligent and athletically gifted.

Gianna was a women’s basketball powerhouse in the making, who also loved to give hugs and kisses to her family, she reflected.

She then eulogized her husband, giving us a snapshot into the man he was behind the scenes.

“He was my everything,” she said.

Bryant expressed that he was a soulful romantic. She said he once gifted her with the blue dress and namesake notebook from the movie “The Notebook.” She was the woman he planned to grow old with.

She talked about spending many nights watching tear-jerking romantic comedies, along with movie nights with the family. They were everything to him.

Bryant also shared that he was a devoted father, always present to the needs of his children and there for them in their daily lives.

“Family came first to him,” she said.

She got emotional, lamenting that he would not be there to drop of their children at school or walk them down the aisle on their wedding days.

Gianna planned to follow in her father’s footsteps. Following retiring from the NBA, her husband had devoted his life to his family and spent a great deal of time coaching his daughter Gigi’s basketball team.

The two were inseparable. She believes this is why they went to Heaven at the same time.

“God knew they couldn’t be on this Earth without each other. He had to bring them home to have them together,” Bryant said.

She concluded with this call-to-action to her late husband.

“Babe, you take care of our Gigi,” Bryant said. “May you both rest in peace and have fun in Heaven until we meet again someday.”