“We’re OK,” Jenna, 44, quipped, before she jokingly added, “It may look like everything’s great, but things are falling apart.”

And Sheinelle—mom to three kids with her late husband Uche Ojeh—felt where her colleague was coming from. 

“We can’t do it all at once,” Sheinelle reassured her, “but we’re doing it.”

Recently, Sheinelle, 48, shared how the Today family—including Jenna, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Craig Melvin—lift one another up. In fact, their bond was never more on display than when Uche was battling glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, before his death in May 2025.

“When my husband was sick, they were my family,” Sheinelle told E! News in an interview published May 2. “Al was bringing breakfast sandwiches into hospice for us, Savannah was right with us after the first surgery.”

She emphasized of their chemistry that audiences have come to love on TV, “It's not just pretend.”

In fact, Sheinelle’s Today colleagues were by her side for the 18 months Uche was battling the illness, even before the world knew what her family was going through. 

“We do it when no one's watching,” she said, pointing out that publicly, “nobody knew what I was going through—they all knew. Every day I was never alone. They were always there helping the kids, helping me with dinner.”

Sheinelle added, “When it's time to rally around each other, we do it.”

For a look into the Today family photo album, read on…