Netflix‘s new romantic comedy Nobody Wants This offers lessons in kissing, Judaism and healthy attachment styles. But Today‘s Jenna Bush Hager admitted to Hoda Kotb that the show also taught her and her husband a valuable lesson in maturity.
Speaking during a recent broadcast of Today, Bush Hager revealed that her husband recently found her box of mementos from past relationships, alluding to a storyline in Nobody Wants This where Joanne (Kristen Bell) finds a box of things belonging to Noah’s (Adam Brody) ex-girlfriend.
“This show helped me through a moment yesterday with my husband, Henry Hager,” Bush Hager announced. “I get a text, it says, ‘I was looking for this old photo to frame and I found your box.’ He found my old box of all the boyfriends.”
She explained that the box is “not organized the way it used to be” so it also contained a letter from her grandmother, which her husband wanted to frame for her. But underneath that, she said, were love letters and photos from her past relationships.
“He said he just skimmed the box, he said he briefly took a peek at the box but it scared him,” she told Kotb. “And the truth is, this is the thing, without Kristen Bell and Adam Brody and all those people, he wouldn’t even have known what a box was.”
She continued, “That show helped Henry and I have a mature [conversation] because he wrote, ‘I found your box and I get that you need these things,’ and I wrote back, ‘Lol.’” Very mature, indeed!
Bush Hager mentioned that she would be “happy” to burn the box in their fireplace with their kids, if her husband asked.
After Kotb wondered if men also keep boxes, Bush Hager admitted, “I think Henry used to have old love letters but I think I got rid of those. I don’t remember exactly but I was like, ‘Where’s your box?’ He said, ‘You took care of my box years ago.’” But she clarified that she didn’t burn them, she simply tossed them in the trash.
“Just like my children’s art,” she joked. “Just kidding!”
Later on in their conversation, Bush Hager also admitted that she wasn’t so sure she would have such a “mature” response to finding out her husband kept a box like that.
“It’s also so hilarious, if I had found his box we might have had been a very different conversation,” she teased.
Kotb appeared unsurprised by Bush Hager’s confession. “Oh, you would be pissed,” she pointed out, before calling her co-host “defensive.”
Today with Hoda & Jenna airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.
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