America's Got Talent contestant Matt Mauser moves viewers by recounting losing his wife in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash

E! Online

"I'm a singer," Mauser said in opening up about his late wife Christina Mauser. "And I'm here because my wife and I...we were 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 January 26th of 2020, I lost my wife in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant."