“I knew about 10 minutes before the show startedDylan said. “That’s when I think everyone kind of found out.”
But despite the unexpected news, several members of the Today Show were on hand to support Hoda – the mother of daughters. Haley7, and Hope5 – when she brought the update on air.
“I realized that at 60 it was time for me to turn the page and try something new,” Hoda said through tears. “I remember standing outside and looking at this beautiful group of people with these beautiful signs, and I thought, 'This is what the peak of the wave feels like to me.' And I thought it couldn't get any better and decided that this was the right time for me to move on somehow.
She further shared that she plans to focus more on her family.
“Obviously I had my kids late in life, and I thought they deserved a bigger piece of my time than I did,” she continued. “I feel like we only have a limited amount of time. Despite all this, this is the hardest thing in the world.”
