Kobe Bryant’s accuser got “sick” to her stomach watching the hoops superstar weepily deny on national TV that he raped her – and she doesn’t want his money, just a jail sentence for him, a close pal said.
The 19-year-old alleged victim became disgusted listening to Bryant contend that they had consensual sex in his room at the posh Colorado hotel where she works as a desk clerk – and “couldn’t believe he was crying” as he told his side of the story flanked by his wife, a longtime friend of the woman told TV’s “Celebrity Justice.”
But while Bryant’s teary denial angered the alleged victim, she “doesn’t want any money from [him],” insisted the pal, who went to the movies with the teen Friday night to try to take her mind off the scandal, just hours after Bryant’s appearance.
“She just wants him to go to jail,” the friend said in the interview, set to air this morning.
The pal and other friends said the woman and Bryant had gotten together before that fateful night, June 30 – when the teen gave the L.A. Lakers All-Star a personal “tour” of the resort near Vail.
Bryant was polite – even shy – as they walked around the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera, her friends told Fox News.
Later that night, Bryant asked the teenager to personally bring him the room service he ordered, the woman reportedly told her friends.
But when she arrived at his room, the basketball star “suddenly went crazy,” one of her friends told Fox.
Bryant “snapped” and “acted like a whole different person,” the friend said.
The alleged victim claims Bryant then forced her to have sex with him.
News of her reaction to Bryant’s TV appearance came as other pals said the alleged victim had been in an extremely fragile, emotional state about a month before the incident – overdosing on pills under the strain of being jilted by a beau and losing a friend in a car crash.
Lindsey McKinney, 18, told the Orange County Register that she was living with Bryant’s accuser in May when the OD occurred and that the incoherent woman was rushed to a hospital. Several other friends suggested the overdose may have been an accident.
But “I don’t think it was accidental. I was there,” McKinney said. “I think it was just a cry for help.
“I think the things that happened to her in the past had a lot to do with what [she said] happened that night” with Bryant. Legal experts said the OD incident, if true, could hurt the accuser’s credibility.
Krista Flannigan, spokeswoman for the Eagle County district attorney, called talk of any overdose “a violation” of the woman either way.
“If it did not happen, then there are rumors floating around that may not be true. If it is true, it’s a revictimization and an example of a personal thing becoming public,” she said.
Meanwhile, an old girlfriend and another former high-school teammate of Bryant’s echoed what those closest to him have been saying since the allegations first surfaced: The alleged incident is out of character for him.
“He’s never been aggressive or forceful,” the former flame, who briefly dated Bryant in 1997, told KTTV in Los Angeles.
Chris Lawson, who played high-school basketball with Bryant in Lower Merion, Pa., told The Post he remembered the star as far from girl-crazy.
“You never saw him at any parties on the weekend. He spent most of his time playing ball,” Lawson said.
He added, “But that’s not to say he didn’t have friends. He was very well-liked. Clearly, this is the last person you’d ever associate with a story like this.”