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Every morning in the Today On the show, Savannah Guthrie greets viewers with a smile and an upbeat attitude to help them start their day.
But off camera, the beloved journalist and television personality has dealt with more than her share of personal anguish.
During a recent appearance on Monica Lewinksy’s “Reclaiming” podcast, Guthrie opened up about a particularly painful chapter from her past.
Savannah Guthrie says divorce was ‘horrible’ and required years of recovery
In 2009, Guthrie ended her three-year marriage to Mark Orchard. He rarely speaks publicly about the ordeal and today he revealed why.
“It was horrible and sad, it broke my heart and it took me years to recover.” Guthrie said when asked why he usually stays silent on the topic of his divorce.
“And I don’t blame anyone, but I really don’t want to get into that, you know?”
Guthrie barely mentioned her divorce in the religious memoir she published last year.
“It’s the one thing I didn’t want to talk about,” she said of that decision, adding that while she wanted her audience to know that she “experienced adversity,” she didn’t want to tell them “the depth of it.”
“Some things were too personal and too embarrassing. Which I basically said,” he continued.
Savannah will be happy forever
Today, Guthrie is happily married to Michael Feldman, her husband of 11 years.
“I met him very shortly after I was separated and divorced, so I thought, ‘This is what’s never going to happen.’ So it took a long time, but we talked about it because of our different beliefs and because my faith is very important to me,” she explained.
“We dated for five and a half years, waited for a lot of reasons, and we both had commitment issues for our own reasons,” Guthrie recalled.
“All I know is that I’m trying to have integrity in my faith with my kids and my family, and Mike is right there with me allowing me to do that.”
In February, Guthrie opened up about meeting Feldman and having children later in life.
“When I was 36, I got divorced. I wasn’t married for very long. It was a big disappointment. I was pretty sure I had missed my chance and more or less ruined my life,” she said. Us weekly.
“All I ever wanted was to fall in love, be a mother, and have a family. I don’t know if it’s acceptable to admit it nowadays, but that’s just who I was. I wanted to do something important and meaningful, but I really wanted a family,” Guthrie continued.
Today, of course, Savannah is living the life she dreamed of.
She and Feldman are parents of two children and, by all indications, are ecstatic about the life they have built together.
Savannah is living proof that happy endings are possible at any time.
