Kobe Bryant Feels Guilty About Wife's Miscarriage

Kobe Bryant choked up and fought back tears as he took the blame for his wife's miscarriage, calling it: "Something I gotta carry forever."

"The reality is it happened because of me. That's something I have to deal with," admitted Bryant, who suffered a season-ending rotator cuff tear in January.

The Los Angeles Lakers star made the emotional revelation, which dates back to his 2004 rape case, in the Showtime documentary "Kobe Bryant's Muse."

"We were expecting...and um...expecting our second child during that time...and there was just so much stress, she actually, she actually miscarried," Bryant said of his wife Vanessa.

Bryant was arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel employee at a Colorado resort in 2003, but the case was dropped in September 2004 when the woman opted not to testify. The 36-year-old spoke about the ordeal and how it impacted his family.

"It's something...I have a real hard time dealing with that 'cause I felt like it was just my fault," Bryant said in the documentary, which premiered Saturday.

"We should be building our family," he continued. "But because of my mistake, because of this tough year, we lost a baby."

Vanessa Bryant suffered a miscarriage in early 2005. The Bryants have two daughters.

SOURCE