Jenna Bush Hager is setting the record straight once again about why she has not been wearing her wedding ring during recent Today episodes.
During an episode of Today With Jenna & Friends on Wednesday, February 26, Jenna, 43, referenced a “bad wedding ring situation” as the reason why her ring finger is bare.
“I’m not wearing one now because I broke my finger, but don’t worry, I’ve seen some of the comments, Henry and I are still very happily married,” Jenna, who has been married to husband Henry Hager since 2008, told viewers.
The former first daughter previously addressed the topic during an episode of the show in August 2024. She said that all of her problems started because she ended up losing her lucky necklace while swimming. From there, things went a bit haywire.
“So, I jumped in the ocean and I lost my lucky necklace, OK,” Jenna told then-cohost Hoda Kotb. “And since then, some things happened. I tripped, I got a black eye, I broke my ring finger … so some of y’all may be thinking, ‘Is she splitting with the husband?’ No.”
“You broke it?” Hoda, 60, responded, taking a look at Jenna’s swollen finger. “Oh, it’s really big, still!
“Yeah, Henry claims I just sprained it, but it was blue!” Jenna said.
“Well, it’s fractured for sure,” Hoda said.
She went on to say that breaking her finger wasn’t the only injury she sustained after losing the necklace.
“I have a little black eye,” she said while pointing to her eye. “All of these things happened right after I lost the necklace.”
Jenna said that her 11-year-old daughter, Mila, is the one who pointed out the superstition surrounding the necklace.
“And I said that to Mila, I said, ‘I’ve had some misfortunes and maybe it’s because I’ve lost my lucky necklace,’ and she said, ‘Well, were you so stressed after you lost the necklace?’ and I said, ‘No!’ Well, not until all the bad things started happening!” Jenna recalled.
Despite her misfortunes, Jenna and Henry’s marriage is still going strong after 17 years and they share three kids together. Jenna recently joked that she thought Henry, 46, would fancy Today With Jenna & Friends guest cohost Scarlett Johansson but it turned out to be the other way around.
“I thought it was my husband that was going to fall in love with her, but it turns out it was me,” the I Loves You First author told People in a February 22 interview after Scarlett joined her on the talk show.
Jenna added another piece of jewelry to her collection when she and Scarlett got their ears pierced together during an episode of Today when the Avengers actress was a guest cohost.
“I have a lot of piercings,” Scarlett, 40, said during the episode as she and Jenna sat together at the news desk as two piercers gave them the piercings. “When I was a kid, I just was into piercings, and then I had my eyebrow pierced, my septum, my everything. It was just a thing. And so I think it’s been a minute since I got a piercing, so I’m excited to do it with you.”
