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...
00:10She 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...
00:25In a car together in the debut episode?
00:27When I was getting separated and divorced from my...
00:30My first husband, replied Guthrie, 54, I was in my thirties.
00:35I felt old, but I now see that I was pretty young, and I was sad about...
00:40And I was also starting a new job at a place called NBC and trying really...
00:45Hard to make my way and make my little dream come true, while other dreams were falling...
00:50It made me really have to dig deep, and I felt like a failure.
00:55Guthrie reportedly met BBC journalist Mark Orchard...
01:00While they were both covering the Michael Jackson's abuse trial in 2005, and...
01:05They 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...
01:15Saying, I think that's when my faith became even more solidified, because I...
01:20I realized I didn't have to be perfect to be loved by God.
01:24I didn't even have to be...
01:25Very close, because I was definitely a failure.
01:28And I really felt loved and cared...
01:30I was worried by God and that was such an important integral moment of life.
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