Snoop Dogg’s 11-month-old granddaughter tragically dies as daughter Cori Broadus says ‘I lost the love of my life’
SNOOP Dogg’s 11-month-old granddaughter has tragically died – as daughter Cori Broadus says ‘I lost the love of my life’.
Cori revealed the news that her daughter Codi Dreaux died on Monday, just 20 days after her release from the NICU.
Cori had welcomed Codi – her first child with photographer fiance Wayne Duece – in February last year.
But Codi was born three months prematurely, and spent the first months of her life in the NICU before being discharged at the beginning of January.
Cori, 26, had excitedly announced “She’s home” on January 6 in an Instagram post, but now she has shared the devastating news that Cori has passed away.
She posted a black and white picture of her holding her baby daughter as she looked down and smiled at her.
Alongside it she wrote: “Monday, I lost the love of my life. My Codi.”
She also reshared her post about Codi coming home and wrote: “20 days later?! dawg im sick.”
Wayne also shared a post to his Instagram Stories on Saturday, which showed Codi gazing up at him as he cradled her.
He wrote: “I been the saddest since u left me Codi Dreaux. But I know u at peace. Daddy will always love you.”
Meanwhile, one of Codi’s nurses also shared a heartbreaking post, which Cori reposted.
It showed a black and white video of a crib and mobile hanging over it, with the caption: “I been sad for 6 days straight. Being a nurse has its ups and downs and this is the biggest down I ever experienced.
“It was such a pleasure being mybabygirls nurse. I gave her one last bath told her I loved her and didn’t even know I was getting her ready for Heaven.”
Cori is the youngest of Snoop’s three daughters with his wife of 28 years, Shante Broadus.
She was diagnosed with Lupus when she was six, and suffered a stroke in early 2024, which made her pregnancy high risk.
She gave birth to Codi when she was just 25 weeks along, but when Codi was six months old and in the NICU, she told Us Weekly her baby girl was “feisty”.
She said: “Codi just has so much character. The doctors and nurses always tell me: ‘Your baby got her mind. She’s smart. She’s alert.
“‘She knows what’s going on. She can hear. She can see. Yeah, the circumstances are not what you thought they would be, but it could be worse.’
“That girl is just a sweet little firecracker.”