Snoop Dogg breaks his silence after 11-month-old granddaughter tragically dies
Rap legend Snoop Dogg has broken his silence after the heartbreaking death of his 11-month-old granddaughter.
The 54-year-old A-lister addressed his daughter Cori Broadus' devastating announcement that her baby girl Codi Dreaux died on Monday after battling for her life in the NICU.
Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, shared a family photo on Saturday night, just hours after Cori posted about the unimaginable loss online.
The picture featured Snoop Dogg with his three adult children - Cori, 26, Corde, 31, and Cordell, 28 - whom he shares with his wife Shante.
The media personality has another son, Julian, 27, whom he had with Laurie Helmond.
Corde and Cordell - wearing matching white tank tops - stood on either side of their father, who donned a flannel shirt.
All three men surrounded Cori, who stood in front and smiled faintly in a grey cardigan. Corde also grinned in the photo, while Snoop Dog and Cordell remained stoic.
Snoop Dogg simply captioned the post with emojis of a pink heart and praying hands.
Snoop Dogg is seen on January 11 at the Golden Globes. He broke his silence on his granddaughter's death on Saturday
Snoop Dogg's daughter Cori Broadus has shatteringly revealed that her 11-month-old daughter Codi Dreaux died Monday, 20 days after her release from the NICU
Snoop Dogg shared a photo of him and his sons Corde (right) and Cordell (left) surrounding Cori
The comment section has been flooded by well-wishes from fans sending their condolences.
'Sending my love to you all,' one comment reads. 'Sending prayers and love, I am so sorry,' says another.
'This is a beautiful picture. My UTMOST condolences,' one man chimed in, with thousands of others sending their prayers.
Sharing the same picture on his Instagram story, Cordell wrote: 'Lil sis we got you forever.'
Cori broke the news of her daughter's passing on social media on Saturday.
Codi was born three months prematurely in late February 2025, the first child Cori welcomed with her fiancé, photographer Wayne Duece.
The baby spent months in the NICU but was discharged at the beginning of the new year, with Cori ecstatically announcing on Instagram on January 6: 'She's home,' while thanking fans for their prayers and saying: 'God heard them all.'
But this Saturday she posted a black-and-white photo of herself holding her daughter, captioned: 'Monday, I lost the love of my life. My Codi.'
She then reshared her Instagram update from the beginning of the month about Codi coming home from the hospital, commenting: '20 days later?! dawg im sick.'
Cordell, Cori, Snoop Dogg and Shante are seen together in 2018
Duece also posted to his Insta Stories on Saturday, sharing a heartrending image of himself lovingly cradling his baby girl as she gazed up at him
Duece also posted to his Insta Stories on Saturday, sharing a heartrending image of himself lovingly cradling his baby girl as she gazed up at him.
'I been the saddest since u left me Codi Dreaux. But I know u at peace. Daddy will always love you,' he wrote, adding the hashtag: '#LongLiveCodiDreaux.'
Cori re-shared a post by her baby's nurse, who had uploaded a video of a mobile spinning over Codi's crib along with her own reflections on the tragedy.
'I been sad for 6 days straight. Being a nurse has its ups and downs and this is the biggest down I ever experienced,' she wrote.
'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.'
She added that Codi's parents were 'forever in my heart and my family 4 ever,' concluding her post with a praying hands emoji.
Cori announced her baby's early arrival last February when she was 25 weeks along, confessing she had 'cried and cried' as well as 'compared and compared, blaming myself that I wasn’t able to give her all that she needed.'
She added that Codi herself was 'perfect as ever! Thank You God for getting me this far no matter the odds that are constantly thrown against me.'
Snoop Dogg and Cori are seen at the 2025 BET Awards on June 9, 2025
Cori re-shared a post by her baby's nurse, who posted a video of a mobile spinning over Codi's crib along with her own reflections on the tragedy
The preterm birth was the result of a preeclampsia variant called HELLP syndrome, the acronym standing for Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelets.
Cori, who has had lupus since age six and had a stroke at the start of 2024, had previously noted while expecting that she was in the midst of a 'high risk pregnancy.'
In September, when her baby was six months old and in the NICU, Cori gushed about her 'feisty' daughter, whom she called 'so resilient and strong,' via Us Weekly.
Codi, she said, '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.'
She continued: 'Yeah, the circumstances are not what you thought they would be, but it could be worse. That girl is just a sweet little firecracker.'
