While speaking in the recent episode of TODAY with Hoda and Jenna, Bush Hager, 41, teared up as she reflected on a time she got candid with Kotb, 58, after feeling like she didn't know how to be a supportive friend.
Jenna: When Hoda's daughter wasn't feeling well, I just wasn't there for her the way I wanted to be. And I didn't know how to be, and I felt terrible about it. But I didn't know what to do. So I just said it. I said 'I feel like I haven't been there for you’.
Kotb: "It was, first of all, one of the most beautiful statements, and it touched me deeply and it meant everything to me that you said that."
Kotb, whose 3-year-old daughter Hope was hospitalized in February, went on to share that her co-host's honesty meant "everything" to her. Kotb is also mom to daughter Haley Joy, 6 had taken a few weeks off from Today in February while Hope was in the hospital. Though, she has not provided further information about her daughter's diagnosis.
