{"id":666588,"date":"2026-06-30T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666588\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:20:11","slug":"kathy-gifford-opens-up-about-health-battle-and-love-after-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666588\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Gifford Opens Up About Health Battle and Love After Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Jeffrey Mayer\/JTMPhotos, Int\u2019l. \/ MEGA<\/p>\n

Kathie Lee Gifford<\/a> doesn\u2019t have any plans to find love again after the death of her husband, Frank Gifford<\/a>, but that\u2019s not the only challenge she\u2019s been navigating in recent years. The television icon recently opened up about the painful health issues that led to multiple surgeries over the past several months.<\/p>\n

Gifford, 72, told People<\/a> that she\u2019s currently single and not in the market<\/a> for a boyfriend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not looking, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever get married again,\u201d the former Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee host told the outlet in an interview published on Tuesday, June 30. \u201cI had an opportunity for that to maybe happen, and it didn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, that doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s closing the door on a future marriage if heavenly forces were to intervene.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrank will always be the love of my life,\u201d Gifford explained. \u201cIf God wants to do something miraculous, like give me another great love [then I\u2019m open to it]. And so I leave room for the miraculous to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\" ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/p>\n

While Gifford has found peace with her personal life, she\u2019s also been working to regain her health after a series of painful medical issues led to multiple surgeries over the past year.<\/p>\n

She revealed that she underwent hip replacement surgery, arm surgery and cataract surgery after enduring immense physical pain that left her not wanting to leave her house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be Kathie Lee, the person they expect. I don\u2019t want to disappoint people. But when you\u2019re in pain, it\u2019s so debilitating, and everything\u2019s a grimace,\u201d she told the publication<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve had emotional pain many times in my life, but never this chronic physical pain where you literally want to go home to Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gifford admitted that, at one point, she \u201cwanted to die a few times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to hurt myself. I wasn\u2019t going to kill myself. I just didn\u2019t want to be here \u2014 as blessed as I am,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, surgery and physical therapy have the former daytime TV legend on the mend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Mayer\/JTMPhotos, Int\u2019l. \/ MEGA Kathie Lee Gifford doesn\u2019t have any plans to find love again after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2755,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}