Deborah Roberts and Al Roker have been married since 1995 and remain incredibly in love. Al Roker, the anchor for Today, is appreciative of his spouse and believes he wouldn't be alive today without Deborah Roberts' love and care.
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The weatherman said late last year that he had been hospitalized for blood clots in his legs and lungs after missing several days of the Today show.
The TV celebrity admitted to Page Six in an exclusive interview that he is currently "just so overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and prayers and of course, my wife Deborah" at the Hudson River Friends 7th Annual Playground Committee Luncheon. Without her, I wouldn't be here today.
Roker, 68, also acknowledged that he was unaware of how close to passing away he had been.
He admitted, “I guess I know it now, I didn’t know it at the time. Deborah was great at keeping all that away from me so I thought I was doing OK but that was great because I was able to focus on getting better.”
After being admitted to the hospital for the first time on November 18, Roker was brought back the day after Thanksgiving.
At the time, an eyewitness reported that he had been taken away by ambulance while his distressed wife tried to break into their Tesla but it would not unlock its doors so she could get her phone and follow her husband to a hospital in Manhattan.
Roberts attempted to break the reinforced glass window on the front side of the car outside their Upper East Side house while locked out and was assisted by a neighbor. Unable to find her husband, Roberts took a taxi to meet him.
The day after Thanksgiving, on Friday, Al was brought back to the hospital on a stretcher from a house. His condition was concerning, but once he was back in the hospital, the witness informed the outlet, he got better.
He returned back to work the first week of January, where he stated that he lost "half [his] blood" during his "life-threatening" medical crisis.
“I lost half my blood. They were trying to figure out where it was,” he recalled of his hospitalization and internal bleeding, joking that he “went in for one operation [and] got four free.”
Roker's medical team had to resection his colon, remove his gallbladder, and reconstruct his duodenum in his small intestine after learning he had two bleeding ulcers.
Roker needs yet another surgery, but this one has nothing to do with his health scare.
“I’ve got a bum knee that I’ve got to get replaced,” he shared. “But that was already before everything happened, I was already planning that, so other than that I’m feeling great.”
When Roker was released from the hospital in time for Thanksgiving in November 2022, he was rushed back a few days later. Roker acknowledged his hospitalization in a post on Instagram.
The couple wed at Manhattan's St. Thomas Episcopal Church in 1995 in front of relatives and well-known friends after first connecting in 1990 when Roberts joined NBC's Today as a correspondent. Among the attendees were Katie Couric and Barbara Walters.
Although having met two years earlier, Roker and Roberts didn't go on a date until 1992. From 1984 until their separation in 1992, Roker was wed to his first wife, Alice Bell.
Roker previously revealed how he met Roberts on The Kelly Clarkson Show, saying that his future wife had asked him to watch after her apartment while she was in Barcelona covering the Summer Olympics for NBC.
Leila Ruth, the couple's daughter, was born on November 17, 1998. Roberts' first kid was Leila, and Roker had a daughter named Courtney from a previous marriage. Nicholas, their second child, was born on July 18, 2002.
The longtime couple previously talked about their marriage and 25th wedding anniversary for PEOPLE's first-ever Love Issue.
"He does things like he sprinkles little love notes, little cards throughout my life, sometimes there's a little card next to the coffee maker that might say something encouraging or sweet or impish or fun."
Roberts said in Feb. 2021 of her husband's romantic gestures.
