Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager applauded Kelly Rowland for defending herself from a Cannes security guard.
On Tuesday’s episode of “Today with Hoda and Jenna,” the co-hosts talked with E! News host Justin Sylvester about the incident when Kotb admitted they were “very upset” over the entire ordeal.
“What is she protecting them [from]? I don’t understand what she’s trying to do. Protecting them from what? Or what’s she doing?” she asked about the security guard’s intentions.
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Bush Hager, 42, responded that they do “not know” the reasons behind the security guard’s “weird” actions but regardless Kelly Rowland is their “girl.”
“Yes. It felt like people were piling on her and we know that she handles herself with grace and class always,” Kotb, 59, said of the former Destiny’s Child member.
Kotb and Bush Hager were talking about the viral video that showed Rowland, 43, pointing at and allegedly yelling at a female security guard while walking up the red carpet stairs at the Cannes Film Festival last week.
The singer was allegedly telling her to “not talk to [her] like that.”
The “Motivation” singer later addressed the incident, telling AP News, “That woman knows what happened. I know what happened. I have a boundary, and I stand by those boundaries.”
“There were other women that attended that carpet who did not quite look like me and they didn’t get scolded, or pushed off, or told to get off,” she continued.
The same security guard was later filmed getting into similar spats with Dominican actress Massiel Taveras and K-pop star Yoona.
Kotb and Bush Hager coming to Rowland’s defense comes after Page Six broke the news that she walked off the “Today” show when she was supposed to co-host with the former in February.
At the time, sources told Page Six that she was slated to fill in for Bush Hager when she left because she was “not happy” with the dressing room.
Shortly after the news broke, Kotb assured viewers there was no bad blood between them and Rowland is welcome to co-host the show anytime she’d like.
“She can share my dressing room. We’ll be in it together! But anyway, I just want to say we love her. We’ve loved her on this show for many, many years,” Kotb said in a February episode.
