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Alex Warren and Hoda Kotb Discuss Grief and Remembering Their Fathers
Singer Alex Warren and Hoda Kotb discussed grief and remembering loved ones on Kotb’s podcast, “Making Space.”
Warren’s father died of kidney cancer when Warren was nine.
Kotb said she avoided talking about her father after he died because she feared it would hurt her mother.
Warren said bullying made him hide his father’s story because he did not want to feel more different.
In his twenties, he began speaking about his grief to help others feel less alone.
Warren welcomes people sharing memories at his concerts, where he says he cries and continues to work through his own grief.
Alex Warren and Hoda Kotb discussed grief and why they had stopped talking about their fathers after their deaths on an October 21 episode of Making Space.
Warren’s father died of kidney cancer when Warren was 9, and Warren said he stopped sharing stories about him for a long time.
Warren said bullying and a desire to fit in made him reluctant to talk about his father.
He later began discussing grief to help others feel less alone and to create a place for people to share their loss.
Kotb said her father died while she was in college and that she avoided talking about him because she feared hurting her mother.
- Who
- Singer Alex Warren and host Hoda Kotb.
- What
- They discussed grief and why they had stopped talking about their fathers after their deaths.
- When
- October 21, in an episode of Making Space.
- Where
- Making Space. A specific location is not stated.
- Why
- Warren said bullying and wanting to fit in led him to avoid talking about his father. Kotb said she feared that talking about her father would hurt her mother.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
His father died of kidney cancer.
Her father died.
He realized that talking about his grief could help other people.
Warren and Kotb discussed grief on an episode of Making Space.
- Warren’s age when his father died
- 9
- Cause of Warren’s father’s death
- Kidney cancer
- Kotb’s father’s death
- When she was in college
- Interview program
- Making Space
- Interview date
- October 21
What people are saying
People die twice. They die when they die, and they die when you stop telling their story
I stopped telling my Dad’s story for a very long time to the point where I forgot who he was.
I felt so alone but I was surrounded by so many people.
My Dad died when I was in college and we didn’t talk about him because I was afraid it was going to hurt my mom