The Untold Truth Of Kathie Lee Gifford's Marriage With Frank Gifford

In December 2018, Kathie Lee Gifford told Today viewers that she would be leaving the show in April of the following year. In addition to moving out of her longtime television role, she later made a physical move to Nashville, Tenn., her new home. 

Gifford returned to Today in January 2020 to share details about her life since exiting Today, and why she decided to move out of the Connecticut home that she and Frank Gifford had shared for decades. After the couple's children, Cody and Cassidy, moved out, she admitted that a home that was once "teeming" with life "came to feel like a mortuary." The loneliness, she admitted "was crippling." 

In an interview with The Tennessean, Kathie Lee explained how moving to Nashville had opened up her life, allowing her to move on in a way she couldn't while living in her Connecticut home. "Here's the bad news — I'm a widow, an orphan, and an empty nester," she told the newspaper, adding, "The good news is, I have the freedom of a widow, an orphan, and an empty nester... I'm having the life I could've only ever dreamed of."

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