Hoda Kotb Thanks Jamie Lee Curtis for ‘Beautiful’ Gifts She Sent Daughters After Hope’s Health Scare

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A thoughtful present. Hoda Kotb praised Jamie Lee Curtis for thinking of her and her daughters amid the chaos of awards season and sending them a gift after 3-year-old Hope’s hospitalization.“I was opening packages in my apartment last night, all the Amazon stuff that you get, and Jamie Lee — I opened a package and inside I saw two teddy bears … that you had given to my girls,” the journalist, 58, told the newly minted Oscar winner, 64, during the Tuesday, March 14, episode of the Today show.The Oklahoma native noted that the package also included a “beautiful” item from Curtis’ My Hand in Yours charity, which is a nonprofit organization that raises money for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

The Halloween actress also included a note that read: “I know it was scary. This is for your girls.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesKotb thanked the Scream Queens alum for reaching out during a busy time in her career, which culminated on Sunday, March 12, with Curtis’ Best Supporting Actress win at the Oscars.“I thought to myself, ‘In the middle of her shining moment in her life, she is sending something to me and my kids,'” Kotb told Curtis, who appeared on the show via video chat. “And I can’t tell you how touching and how beautiful I thought that was.

And I just wanted to say thank you.”The True Lies actress assured Kotb that she understood what she was feeling when Hope was hospitalized last month.

The NBC anchor shares Hope and daughter Haley Joy, 6, with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman.“Listen, I get it. It’s the hardest thing in the world,” Curtis said with tears in her eyes. “There’s nothing scarier in the world than a sick kid.