“Instead, they got to have an amazing month with their dad,” Kotb said.
Fellow “Today” host Savannah Guthrie further spilled the beans that Vieira was in “really great spirits” after Cohen’s death.
“She was such a beautiful and devoted wife to Richard, and he just adored Meredith,” Guthrie went on. “And when you hung out with them, they were like the coolest, most fun and entertaining, and irreverent couple you could ever hang out with.”
Cohen and Vieira had been married for 38 years. Cohen got diagnosed with MS when he was just 25. He famously told Vieira about his chronic illness on their second date.
“I told her about it because I kind of learned the hard way that it was better to just put it out there,” he explained during a 2019 interview with Yahoo Life. “And she didn’t even flinch.”