Savannah Guthrie is trying again on her broadcasting profession and revealing her most regretful on-air second.
Through the Monday, October 20, episode of the Today show, the journalist, 53, was requested if she had any regrets from any of her previous interviews.
Guthrie recalled asking former visitor Khloé Kardashian concerning the rumors that the late Robert Kardashian was not her organic father again in 2012, revealing she put the Good American founder, 41, on the spot simply earlier than a industrial as a result of it was such an uncomfortable query.
“I requested Khloé Kardashian, like, 10 seconds earlier than we have been going to interrupt concerning the rumors that her father wasn't her father,” Guthrie shared in hindsight. (On the time, there have been a number of stories questioning if Kardashian's organic father was the late O.J. Simpson.)
Guthrie mentioned she felt uneasy over the ordeal, explaining that she was going through “all this strain” from producers who have been looking forward to her to ask the “dishy query.”
The TV persona praised Kardashian for dismissing the hypothesis with out getting flustered or taking the query to coronary heart.
“So on the very finish we have been like, ‘And Khloé, like, what about this rumor that Robert Kardashian's probably not your father?' They usually have been like, ‘10, 9, eight…' and I used to be so embarrassed,” Guthrie defined. “And he or she was such a category act. She was like, ‘Ah, nothing to it.' We made the break. I requested the query, Khloé was a complete class act.”
Savannah Guthrie and Khloe Kardashian seem on NBC Information' ‘Right now' present. Peter Kramer/NBCU Picture Financial institution/NBCUniversal through Getty Pictures through Getty Pictures
The mother of two — who now shares daughter True and son Tatum with ex Tristan Thompson — beforehand shut down the theories throughout a Could 2012 episode of Retaining Up With the Kardashians, on which she was inspired to take a paternity check to set the report straight.
Khloé finally refused, stating clearly that her “dad is Robert Kardashian.”
Her siblings embody older sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian in addition to youthful brother Rob Kardashian, plus Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner.
Simpson had ties to the Kardashian household as he was shut with Robert Sr., who served on his now-infamous authorized group when he was accused of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her pal, Ron Goldman, in 1994. Simpson was finally discovered not responsible in October 1995 following a felony trial, however liable in a civil trial practically two years later, in February 1997.
Mourning the household patriarch. The Kardashian household has opened up through the years concerning the painful lack of Robert Kardashian. The late legal professional, who shared Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob with ex-wife Kris Jenner, died of esophageal most cancers in 2003 — a devastating loss for all 4 of his kids and his ex-wife. (Robert and […]
“Khloe, like all the women, I'm very happy with, identical to I do know Bob could be if he was right here,” Simpson tweeted in response to the rumour in 2019. “The easy information of the matter is she just isn't mine.”
The previous NFL star addressed the paternity theories once more throughout a 2022 episode of the “Full Send” podcast, saying, “The rumor ain't true. It's not even anyplace near being true.”
“Individuals have their sorts, proper? I at all times thought Kris [Jenner] was a cute woman,” he mentioned, doubling down on his earlier remarks. “She was very nice. However I used to be relationship supermodels.”
Simpson died in April 2024 on the age of 76 after battling prostate most cancers.
