Sheinelle Jones has described the loss of her husband of 17 years as a “beautiful nightmare.”

The co-host of the 3rd Hour of TODAY spoke to Savannah Guthrie on Sept. 5 in her first interview since Uche Ojeh died in May at age 45 from brain cancer.

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Sheinelle, 47, opened up about the feeling of losing the father of their three children and the man she loved since the two were students at Northwestern University.

“It’s a beautiful nightmare,” she said.

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She recalled how, as students, she and Uche would sit quietly together, dreaming about the future in her dorm room at Northwestern as they looked out at a beautiful clock tower. She then flashed forward nearly

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