Today’s Sheinelle Jones breaks down from the death of cancer about the late husband
Today Co-host Sheinelle Jones has shared heartbreaking how she has been dealing since her husband, Uche Ojeh, died in May after a fight with an aggressive form of brain cancer, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Jones, 47. Sit with Savannah Guthrie to open up for her pain, as well as how their three children deal without their father in an interview that was broadcast on the NBC morning show on Friday 5 September. She had been absent from Today Since December 2024, leave of absence “to tackle a family health case.”
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“It’s terrible”
Ojeh left the three young children of the couple behind when he died at the age of 45.
“My heart is crushed in a million pieces,” Known Jones. “The life I know since I was 19 is no longer,” she explained how the broadcaster met and fell in love with her husband while they were students at Northwestern University. The Hogeschool -Lijvjes married in September 2007. Ojeh was only 45 years old when he passed.
“I now have three own children and they have lost their father, and I am their mother. It’s a fuck. So how are me? You know, it’s day to day,” Jones said about her emotional condition.
“I am proud of myself for how I have dealt so far,” she continued as she gave herself Grace. “I am proud of my children for how we could have tried to continue. But it’s terrible. It’s just terrible. And it stinks. But I’m here, I breathe and I am ok.”
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‘A beautiful nightmare’
The beloved host broke down in tears about her pain.
“It’s a nightmare. But something that you said a lot to me these months, sometimes it’s a beautiful nightmare,” Jones told Guthrie, 53.
The NBC personality further remembered how she and her husband used to be in her dormitory at the university and stared at a bell tower and “just talk and dream and sometimes just not talking and being used to it.”
“And almost 30 years ahead. I am in this beautiful, beautiful hospital room and we looked at this beautiful view of New York City,” she remembered.
“Here we are again, not talking, and I remember that I was staring out the window, and I am something like:” Oh my God, as if it is like this crazy circle moment here, we are again, not talking, and it feels like a beautiful nightmare. “
Jones remembered: “It felt bigger than we, but at the end of the day, as when we closed the door and it was only us. That was always when we had the feeling that we were at our best. And my 19-year-old himself did it, and then my 47-year-old himself did it again.”
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Ojeh’s cancer fight
Jones and Ojeh were marryed 17 years before his death.
Guthrie noticed how Ojeh had been in his cancer fight for a long time.
Jones confessed that the couple got his “devastating diagnosis” just before she ran the New York City Marathon in November 2023. The TV -guestheer continued with completing the race to prove that she could make the “hard things”, including Ojeh’s health crisis.
“The way in which he came together and the way we came together and the way we saw the best of humanity, that was wonderful,” she reminded herself.
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Jones and her family see the New York funeral of her deceased husband on 30 May.
Jones’ interview with Guthrie marked her long -awaited return to Today After she started her leave because of her husband’s cancer fight in December 2024.
However, she only revealed the diagnosis of Ojeh after his death and kept his condition private,
An emotional guthrie announced on May 23 during Today: “With deep sadness we share this morning that Uche Ojeh, the husband of our friend and Today Co-host Sheinelle Jones, died after a courageous battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. “
“There are no words for the pain we feel for Sheinelle and their three young children,” Guthrie added. “Uche was an incredible person. We all loved him.”
Jones thanked fans shortly after the announcement in an Instagram post for their ‘love and support’.
