Why Today’s Jenna Bush Hager Missed Episode, Arrived for Jenna & Sheinelle

Jenna Bush Hager is answering the hard-hitting questions.

After viewers noticed the Today personality was missing from the morning show’s first and second hours Aug. 10, she clarified that her absence was due to travel plans.

“I’m straight off a flight,” Hager said as Today With Jenna & Sheinelle kicked off the program’s fourth hour. “I was in Maine with my family, and my little nephew got baptized, which was so sweet.”

Though the 44-year-old missed out on the morning’s “Jenna’s Morning Boost” and “Pop Start” segments, which she is normally present for, she affectionately reflected on her family time in New England, including when she got “kind of weepy” at the baptism during her recitation of a poem by Mary Oliver.

“I was reading it, and it was in the church where I’ve gone with my grandparents my whole life, my kids were baptized there,” she continued. “There’s something sort of evolutionary about looking up and seeing your twin sister hold this big ol’ baby, and I couldn’t help it.”