Kathie Lee Gifford spoke to Fox News Digital last week, discussing various topics such as Kelly Ripa’s experiences with Gifford’s former cohost, Regis Philbin, her new book and faith projects, and marriage. In speaking on marriage, she defended the institution as something from God. “God loves marriage,” she said. “God instituted marriage for a reason, for a purpose. Family is so important to God. … Marriages are under attack. Monogamy is under attack,” she said. A poll in 2016 showed that nearly a third (32%) of Americans describe their ideal relationship as non-monogamous. Millennials were the highest group, with 43% showing a preference for non-monogamous relationships, while 43% also stated a preference for a purely monogamous relationship. 25% of baby boomers and 30% of Generation X stated a preference for non-monogamous relationships. 23% of those polled described their current relationship as non-monogamous, with 12% stating they’d had sex with another person with the consent of their partner. Another study found that 1 in 6 Americans desire to be in a polyamorous relationship while 1 in 9 have been in a polyamorous relationship.

Gifford also addressed divorce, saying, “I think marriage should be a holy alliance. Now, there are reasons why certain people should get divorced, and they have physical reasons to … I don’t know their first story. I just know that I’m sorry to them and their children.” Gifford spoke during a time when the media is abuzz with the possibility of a Tom Brady/ Gisele Bündchen divorce. The couple have been married since 2009 and the pair are reportedly preparing for divorce due to Brady not retiring from football as he had promised. Gifford did not reference the pair specifically, however they do have 2 children together, as well as a third from Brady’s previous relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan.

Gifford had her own struggles in her marriage, including the very public infidelity of her late husband, Frank Gifford. Frank was found to be unfaithful in 1997, however rather than divorce, Kathie Lee chose to forgive him and the two remained married for nearly thirty years, until Frank’s death in 2015. In previously speaking about saving her marriage, Gifford said, “We stayed together, we saved our marriage, we saved — by God’s grace — our children. I knew my children would be very, very different people if we had broken up at that time.” Gifford had two children with Frank, Cody and Cassidy. Gifford continues to speak well of her late husband despite the infidelity and stated in 2017 she was very particular about who she would date, saying she had ended a date due to the man’s lack of faith. “He didn’t share my faith and couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to be with him,” she’d said. “I said, ‘My faith isn’t something I do on Sunday mornings for an hour. My faith is me, and I’m not going to share my life with somebody or even another hour of my life on a date with you if you don’t share the same passion for your faith as I do.” Gifford has been romantically linked to an insurance agent, Randy Cronk, since Frank’s death and she has been very coy about the current status of the relationship. While it’s unclear what her relationship is like today, Gifford’s convictions on marriage are very clear. As one friend was quoted when speaking about Gifford’s relationship with Cronk, “she’s not willing to compromise her beliefs about marriage.”