“He was horrible to me and horrendous to my entire family for 30 years,” she recalled.
Kathie Lee Giffordis crediting divine intervention with helping her to put an end to her 30-year-long feud withHoward Stern.
I could care less.
Kathie Lee Gifford and Howard Stern.Mike Pont/WireImage; Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images
I go downstairs, they go, Where are you going?
I said, Im going to go say hello to Howard.
I just said, Hey.
I thought it was about time we said hello.
And I said, I wanna wish you all the best with the new show, she said.
I said, God told me to.
It was a lot of F words, she said, before doing her best Stern impression.
But he was basically saying, I cant believe how nice you were to me.
In the end, Stern rang her for a second time later that evening.
My husband and my son did not want me to take that call, she recalled.
He was horrible to me and horrendous to my entire family for 30 years.
Id never met the man, never, until that day, [or] listened to his show.
Id hear that hed say certain things about me, Id go, Why?!
I dont even know the man.
Gifford said that Stern did ask me to forgive him during their eventual conversation.
But I just want you to know that I forgave you 30 years ago.
He goes, Youd have me at your house?
I said, Of course!
For Gifford, forgiving Stern is just another step in practicing what she preaches.
Once you start praying for people, you cant hate them.
Love cannot live where hate does," she said.
“And its a very simple thing.
You have to grow in it.
What they just said was so horrible.'
Ask God to heal them.
Because hurt people hurt people.
