00:00Savannah Guthrie opens up about turning to God during difficult divorce.
00:05I felt like a failure.
00:08Savannah Guthrie kept it real when she appeared as the very first guest on Hoda Kotb's new YouTube series Joy Rides.
00:15What was the most difficult time in your life, and what did you learn from it?
00:20Kotb 61, asked her former Today Show co-host, while riding in a car together in the debut episode.
00:26When I was getting separated and divorced from my first husband, replied Guthrie, 54, I was in my 30s.
00:35I felt old, but I now see that I was pretty young, and I was sad about it.
00:41And I was also starting a new job at a place called NBC and trying really hard to make my way and make my little dream come true, while other dreams were falling apart.
00:51It made me really have to dig deep, and I felt like a failure.
00:54Guthrie reportedly met BBC journalist Mark Orchard while they were both covering the Michael Jackson S. abuse trial in 2005, and they were married in December of that year.
01:07They divorced in 2009.
01:10The journalist elaborated to Kotb about how she handled the challenging time, saying,
01:15I think that's when my faith became even more solidified, because I realized I didn't have to be perfect to be loved by God.
01:23I didn't even have to be close, because I was definitely a failure.
01:28And I really felt loved and carried by God and that was such an important integral moment of life.
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