Stephen Colbert opened up about a “strange connection” between his own life and the tragic death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant and eight others who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
The connection is “one I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” Colbert said Tuesday on “The Late Show.”
“I lost my father and two of my brothers when I was a boy to a plane crash that was also in heavy fog,” Colbert said. “And one of the terrible things about that shock and the heartbreaking, unreality nightmare quality of someone huge in your life who just disappears, the center of your love disappearing in that moment, is not knowing what happened.”