Jenna Bush Hager Tears Up Over Not Being There for Hoda Kotb When Her Daughter Was in Hospital

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Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager had to grab the tissues. On Wednesday, the friends and co-hosts spoke about the term brutally honest and how they each try to have that practice in their lives.

During a segment on, Hager addressed a time she had to be honest with Kotb about a personal moment in their friendship.«I can't believe you're bringing up that thing,» Kotb told Hager, whom she admits is honest. «I can't believe you're bringing it up.» After getting her friend's permission to speak about it, Hager shared that she had to be honest with regard to one of Kotb's more trying times, when her 3-year-old daughter, Hope, was hospitalized in March.«When Hoda's daughter wasn't feeling well, I just wasn't there for her the way I wanted to be,» Hager said through tears. «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, who had began to cry herself, shared how much she appreciated her friend's words in that moment.

Hoda and Jenna talk about ‘brutal honesty’ and Jenna opens up about feeling guilty for not being there for Hoda how she wanted during Hope’s health struggles.