Hoda Kotb says it's 'terrifying' to think about her future after quitting TODAY Show

Hoda Kotb admitted it feels 'scary' and 'terrifying' to determination connected from the TODAY Show aft stepping down arsenic co-anchor.

The seasoned journalist, 60 — who announced her daze departure late past period — explained that though it was a hard decision, she besides feels it was 'exactly right' and teased her aboriginal portion appearing connected Today with Hoda & Jenna.

On Friday, she said of her resignation: 'Yeah, it’s scary. It’s terrifying. It’s each of those things, but it’s besides precisely right.'

And aft dedicating 26 years of her vocation to NBC, she said she wants to 'fall successful love' with this caller section of life — romanticizing what affirmative changes it could bring.

'Whenever I made a leap, a move, a leap — it was, like, I’m falling successful love. When I moved to this town, I’m falling successful love. I’m going to autumn successful emotion with a place, a restaurant, a friend, I’m going to conscionable a boyfriend,' she said with hope. 

The TV property compared her aboriginal to the 're-potting' of a plant — 'pulled up by your precise roots, your foundation, everything that grounds you and your roots are successful the air.'

She wondered wherever she was 'going to land' and explained that 'so overmuch of beingness is decision-making.'

Reminiscing implicit her clip connected the web she said: 'When you emotion something, it’s hard to accidental goodbye to it due to the fact that it doesn’t marque sense.

'But determination was thing to maine astir recognizing a highest and saying successful that peak, like, "I bash not consciousness that determination is an accidental that would marque this immoderate amended than it is today."

'Once that feeling hits you, it’s similar this is it. I don’t privation to walk the remainder of my days trying to recreate the apical of the mountain. It was glorious. It was unforgettable,' she added.

The starlet besides teased fans astir perchance moving toward a vocation successful wellness.

'I privation to enactment successful that space. I privation to commencement things. I’ve got things that are percolating wrong … but I privation you guys to travel on connected the thrust with maine due to the fact that let’s each get better! Why not?' she said.

On September 26, Hoda shocked fans erstwhile revealing she should be parting ways with the TODAY amusement in an affectional unrecorded explanation.

'I conscionable turned 60 and it was specified a monumental infinitesimal for maine erstwhile I turned 60 years aged due to the fact that I started reasoning astir that decade. Like, "What does that decennary mean? What does it hold? What it’s gonna person for me?"' she said on-air.

The Emmy victor besides penned a heartfelt missive to her colleagues who she has grown highly adjacent to during the astir 3 decades she walk with the program.

She read: 'As I constitute this, my bosom is each implicit the map. I cognize I'm making the close decision, but it's a achy one. And you each are the crushed why.

'They accidental 2 things tin beryllium close astatine the aforesaid time, and I'm feeling that truthful profoundly close now. I emotion you and it's clip for maine to permission the show,' she said.