Two days after Jamie Lee Curtis got recognition from Academy voters, the “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar winner got recognition from “Today” co-anchor Hoda Kotb.
As Kotb interviewed Curtis on Tuesday’s episode of “Today,” she mentioned that the best supporting actress winner had sent gifts to Kotb’s daughters after one of the girls ended up in the ICU.
“I was opening packages in my apartment last night, all the Amazon stuff that you get, and Jamie Lee — I opened a package, and inside, I saw two teddy bears and a beautiful [item from Curtis’s charitable business] My Hand in Yours that [Curtis] had given to my girls, and she said, ‘I know it was scary. This is for your girls.’”
“I thought to myself, ‘In the middle of her shining moment in her life, she is sending something to me and my kids,’” Kotb added. “I can’t tell you how touched and how beautiful I thought that was. And I just wanted to say thank you.”
Curtis, calling into “Today” over video,” responded: “Listen, I get it. It’s the hardest thing in the world. There’s nothing scarier in the world than a sick kid. And that is why I made My Hand in Yours, and that’s why I support Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, as you support your children’s hospital. This is what we do. This is what they do 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. They show up for your family. So I was simply showing up for yours in the way I could.”
Kotb replied, “Well, I love you for that.”
The Daytime Emmy-winning journalist, 58, opened up about her family’s medical crisis on March 6 as she returned to “Today” following a two-week absence.
“My youngest, Hope, was in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for a little more than a week,” Kotb told co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. “I’m so grateful she’s home. She is back home. I was waiting for that day to come, and we are watching her closely.”
Kotb also expressed gratitude for “the doctors at Weill Cornell who were amazing and the nurses,” her family members, and the friends “who were there every single day,” including Guthrie.
On the “Today With Hoda & Jenna” broadcast later that day, Kotb said that Grace’s hospitalization was “really scary” but that the 3-year-old is “vibrant and brilliant.”