Kathie Lee Gifford on her Today exit: "For the first time in my life, I have the time and the means to go and do anything I want to do"

The Hollywood Reporter

"After my husband (Frank Gifford) passed (in 2015), you really realize that you're gonna run out of time," Gifford told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. "He didn't know that morning he was running out of time," she said. "And then my mom passed, as well." She added: "I realized just recently that I'm in a state where I never dreamed I'd be. I'm a widow, I'm an orphan and I'm an empty nester and that just hit me like a ton of bricks. For the first time in my life, I have the time and the means to go and do anything I want to do."