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Kathie Lee Gifford says there’s a logic why she forgave her precocious husband, Frank Gifford, for having an matter – and it’s each because she didn’t want to create a “toxic” situation for their kids.
“I could person fto nan seed germinate, but I don’t want to beryllium that person, that bitter, angry, unhappy, miserable quality being ’cause you cognize what you extremity up doing? You extremity up making everybody astir you each spot arsenic miserable,” she told “Entertainment Tonight” successful a caller interview.
The erstwhile “Today” show co-host, 70, said that her “faith was decidedly tested” aft learning astir Frank’s 1997 matter pinch a formation attendant because she thought she had “finally recovered [her] soulmate.”
“We each make our choices –– he made a different 1 than I did and we each unrecorded pinch them,” she added. “But I tin unrecorded pinch nan choices I person made if I person genuinely knowledgeable a heavy and abiding forgiveness of that person.”
Kathie Lee admitted that nan business was “very painful,” but she didn’t want that to trickle down to their children. Their son, Cody, was conscionable 7 years aged astatine nan time, while girl Cassidy was 4.
“It’s a crab successful your psyche and I don’t want that. I don’t want it for me, I don’t want it for anyone I love. I want group to beryllium blessed and we each make our choices,” she continued.
The erstwhile “Live pinch Regis and Kathie Lee” big besides noted that she had antecedently learned really to “practice forgiveness” pinch her first husband, Paul Johnson, whom she forgave “right away” aft he “betrayed [her] deeply.”
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Back successful 2020, Kathie Lee antecedently talked astir her determination to forgive her precocious hubby successful her book “It’s Never Too Late.”
“[Frank] wasn’t my leader anymore,” she wrote, admitting that she met pinch a therapist to thief her heal.
However, she recalled nan master telling her 1 point that was a “revelatory moment” successful their marriage.
“He said words that are now emblazoned connected my heart: ‘Kathie, if you can’t forgive your husband, forgive your children’s father,’” she wrote. “It took my eyes disconnected of maine and group them squarely connected my children, who were still wholly unaware of their father’s unfaithfulness. My children’s begetter was a wonderful, loving, gentle, compassionate, generous and saccharine man. He was easy to forgive because I knew his heart.”
Kathie Lee and Frank were yet joined for 28 years. Frank died successful 2015 astatine nan property of 84.
