“My youngest [daughter], Hope, was in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for more than a week,” Hoda Kotb told co-host Savannah Guthrie at the start of the show.
has returned to the anchor desk, revealing that her absence was due to a health emergency involving her youngest daughter, Hope.
Kotb, who has not appeared live on the program since Feb. 17, held back tears as she shared that her three-year-old daughter had been in the ICU. “My youngest [daughter], Hope, was in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for more than a week,” she told co-host“I’m so grateful she’s home,” the 58-year-old continued. “We are watching her closely. I am just so happy.”
Kotb went on to thank Hope’s doctors as well as Guthrie “who were there every single day.” She did not detail what had caused her daughter’s medical emergency.
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