Kathie Lee Gifford returned to the Today show Monday for the first time since her husband Frank Gifford’s death on Aug. 9.

The Today host opened the show with an emotional tribute to her late husband.

“He would want you to know that he died in complete peace,” the Today show host said with tears in her eyes of Gifford, who died at 84 of natural causes. “He knew every sin he had committed was forgiven.”

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