Snoop Dogg's daughter Cori Broadus announces death of her baby girl at 11 months: 'I lost the love of my life'

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.

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.'

However 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.'

Cori, 26, is the youngest of the three daughters Snoop Dogg, real name Calvin Broadus, shares with his wife of 28 years Shante Broadus.

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.' 

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.'

Last 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. Yeah, the circumstances are not what you thought they would be, but it could be worse." That girl is just a sweet little firecracker.