Hoda Kotb returned to Today on Monday, telling viewers that her prolonged absence was as a consequence of her three-year outdated daughter’s well being challenge.
“My youngest Hope was in the ICU for a few days, in the hospital for a little more than a week,” Kotb stated at the beginning of the published. “I am so grateful she is home. She is back home. I was waiting for that day to come, and we are watching her closely. I am just so happy.”
Kotb was joined by co-host Savannah Guthrie, who herself was off the present after studying on Tuesday that she examined optimistic for Covid. That pressured Guthrie to depart in the course of the present’s reside taping.
Kotb’s final reside look was on Feb. 17. She additionally appeared on Feb. 20 on the fourth hour of Today with Jenna Bush Hager, however that was pre-recorded to air on Presidents Day. Last week, after come protection of Kotb’s absence from the present, Craig Melvin informed viewers that she was coping with a household well being matter.
Kotb didn’t disclose the character of her daughter’s sickness, however informed Guthrie, “You know what I realized too, Savannah, is when your child is ill, the amount of gratitude that you have for the people who helped you out. And so I am grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell who were amazing and the nurses and I’m grateful to my family and to friends like you who were there every single day. So i want to I want to say you for that. I love you.”
“I love you too,” Guthrie stated. “You have a lot of friends out there.”
More to come back.
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