Howard Stern on hot seat after horrible entanglement with Top American television presenter

“Horrible,” as Kathie Lee Gifford admits After the feud, Howard Stern apologized: “Pigs are officially in the air now.”
The hatchet was buried.

How Kathie Lee Gifford ended her 30-year rivalry with Howard Stern has been made public.

The 70-year-old former co-anchor of “Today,” who is currently promoting her book “I Want To Matter: Your Life Is Too Short & Too Precious To Waste,” said to Fox News Digital that she was taken aback by the disc jockey’s voicemail.

“Once I listened to it, I said to my kids at the table, ‘Well, pigs have now officially flown.’ [But] I just always believe God can touch anybody’s heart,” she said in an interview published Tuesday. “I’m not allowed to hate anybody that hates me. Once you start praying for people, you can’t hate them. Love cannot live where hate does, and it’s a very simple thing.”

“It was a surprise to get a voicemail from Howard Stern,” Kathie Lee Gifford said.
Gifford and Stern’s feud began in 1995, after she sang the National Anthem at the Super Bowl that year.

Her husband, NFL player Frank Gifford, who died in 2015 at age 84, hosted the live telecast.

Gifford writes in her book that she heard booing when she sang, and she recalled that she eventually learned that Stern had told his fans to boo

In 1999, Stern furthered his criticism of Gifford on television.

She said that after he appeared on “Kathie Lee & Hoda” in 2012 to promote his stint on “America’s Got Talent,” they became friendly.

“Kathie, go down and say hello to him,” the Lord ordered Gifford when she arrived at the “Today” show studio, she stated to the publication.

“And I replied, ‘Okay, Lord.'”

“So I got up out of my hair and makeup place and those girls had been told, ‘Don’t let Kathie go anywhere near the studio because Howard Stern’s coming,'” the woman said, claiming that God had instructed her to “wish [Stern] well with the show.”

“He brings quite the entourage,” she remarked, explaining why there were so many people around that day. “Hey, it’s Kathie Lee,” I said. I believed that the moment had come. “I want to wish you luck with the new show,” I remarked. I rose, turned around, and took a seat in the makeup area. “Why would you do that?” they said. “God told me to,” I said.

Stern phoned her after that event and left her a voicemail.

“He says — I can’t even use the language that he used,” Gifford said.

“It was a lot of F-words, but he was saying, ‘I can’t believe how nice you were to me. I’ve been so rude to you and you were so nice. I just need to apologize to you. Please call me.’”

She further detailed how husband Frank and their son, Cody, didn’t want her to take the call.

“He was horrible to me and horrendous to my entire family,” she said about Stern.

“I’d never met the man, never until that day, never listened to his show or anything like that. I [heard] he said certain things about me. I’d go, ‘Why? I don’t even know the man.’”

Gifford said that Stern asked, “Will you forgive me, Kathie, please? I’m doing hard work on my life. I know I hurt you. I’m so sorry and I need to ask you to forgive me.”

She continued, “I said, ‘I’m really happy for you that you’re asking for forgiveness, because anytime we hurt somebody in life, it’s important to ask for forgiveness. But I just want you to know that I forgave you 30 years ago.’ He goes, ‘What?’ I said, ‘I forgave you 30 years ago, and I’ve been praying for you every day since. And it’s the truth.’ He goes, ‘Oh, my God.’ I said, ‘Would you like to come to dinner sometime?’ He goes, ‘You’d have me at your house?’ I said, ‘Of course.’”