Jenna Bush Hager opened up in regards to the upsetting day her daughter Mila’s cat, Hollywood Hager, went lacking.
In the course of the Wednesday, October 2, episode of Right this moment, Jenna, 42, was visibly emotional as she spoke about how she found the cat was gone.
“Nicely, right this moment is type of an enormous day … This summer season, there have been some stunning issues that occurred and one barely heartbreaking factor in our household, which is that our beloved cat Hollywood Hager went lacking,” the previous first daughter instructed cohost Hoda Kotb. “And the guilt that I felt round that as a result of I simply felt prefer it was type of my fault.”
Hoda, 60, chimed in to make clear that it was an accident. “Can we simply say one thing, your daughter was having a party and as children come and go along with the door broad open,” she instructed the viewers.
“Sure, the door was left open,” Jenna confirmed. “I simply was like, ‘Oh I invited some children over possibly I shouldn’t have finished that.’ You understand you speak your self out of it. However anyway what it’s taught me as a result of she was Mila’s cat … we’ve been ready and never simply ready. I imply, doing every part looking for the kitty. All the pieces you possibly can presumably consider.”
Along with Mila, Jenna shares children Poppy and Hal with husband Henry Hager, whom she married in 2008.
“I stated to Henry after it occurred, I stated, ‘Do you assume that is occurring as a result of proper earlier than Mila goes into center faculty and that type of funky pre-teenage time, she and I’ve simply bonded in a approach?’” Jenna stated.
“For the primary three nights that the cat was gone, she slept with me and we had these conversations round all of those actually stunning issues about life, about love, about ache, about loss,” the mother of three defined. “And I might be there for her, and he or she might be there for me.”
Jenna stated that she understands if viewers at dwelling don’t see why she’s been so emotional about her cat working away.
“And I do know, a few of y’all are simply going to be like, ‘It’s only a cat,’ however what it’s watching a toddler’s coronary heart damage,” she stated.
Whereas she and her household has been extremely upset by Hollywood’s disappearance, they’ve determined to undertake one other cat.
“We went on Sunday and met slightly child kitty, which Mila goes to be adopting,” Jenna revealed. “So we’re going to have a brand new member of our family, and hopefully Holly will scent that little kitty and be like, ‘Who’s getting in there with my mother and father.’ And are available again.”
“When you’re listening, you’re most likely like, ‘Wait, wait, they misplaced a cat, and now they’ve discovered one other cat?’ This has occurred over the course of many months and loads of ache,” Hoda shared. “And day by day that Jenna stood right here, and generally proper earlier than that we went on, you had been crying — not simply in regards to the lack of your cat, however about Mila, your children.”
Hoda stated that over the course of many months, Jenna was crying in regards to the cat and the way Mila was feeling. She went on to say that Jenna has been speaking about her lacking cat rather a lot on the set of the speak present.
“Each single visitor who got here in Jenna had a full-on dialog earlier than we went on the air in regards to the cat,” the longtime broadcaster revealed.
And Jenna would get messages from Mila about how a lot she missed Hollywood.
“I might get texts, I might get a message. Mila would have her laptop for college, and he or she would say, ‘Mommy, I miss her a lot,’” Jenna stated, additionally sharing that her eldest baby was thrilled to undertake a brand new cat.
“She met the little kitty, and he or she stated to me, ‘I haven’t stopped fascinated with her all day,’” Jenna stated.
