Every morning on the Today show, Savannah Guthrie greets viewers with a smile and an upbeat attitude to help them start their day.

But off camera, the beloved journalist and TV personality has dealt with more than her share of personal anguish.

During a recent appearance on Monica Lewinksy’s “Reclaiming” podcast, Guthrie opened up about a particularly painful chapter from her past.

In 2009, Guthrie ended her three-year marriage to Mark Orchard. She rarely speaks about the ordeal publicly, and today, she revealed why that is.

“It was horrible and sad and it broke my heart and it took me years to recover,” Guthrie said when asked why she’s usually tight-lipped on the topic of her divorce.

“And I’m not blaming anyone, but I don’t really want to get into it, you know.”

Guthrie scarcely made mention of her divorce in the religious memoir she published last year.

“It’s the one thing I didn’t want to talk about,” she said of that decision, adding that while she wanted her audience to know she “experienced adversity,” she didn’t want to tell them “the depths of that.”

“Some of it was just too personal and too embarrassing. Which I basically said,” she continued.

These days, Guthrie is happily married to Michael Feldman, her husband of 11 years.