Savannah Guthrieis offering rare insight into her divorce from her first husband. The "Today" host, 53, touched on her split from Mark Orchard during a discussion onMonica Lewinsky's"Reclaiming" podcast in an episode released on Tuesday, July 1. "It was horrible and sad, and it broke my heart," she said. "It took me years to recover." Guthrie was married to Orchard from 2005 to 2009. The topic was brought up when Lewinsky asked Guthrie about her decision to include a disclaimer in her 2024 book, "Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere," stating that there were some personal subjects she would not go into depth on. Guthrie said she included this disclaimer because she wanted to establish her qualifications to write about topics like loss and suffering, without fully getting into details about her experience in those areas. "I wanted to say, 'You know what? I have experienced adversity, but I don't really want to tell you about the depths of that, because some of it was just too personal and too embarrassing,'" she told Lewinsky. "I have had my moments, and I have had my sadnesses. ... But I don't want to go there," the NBC host went on to say. "I'm down here, my feet are burning on the pavement. I just don't want to tell you why the pavement was so hot, or how many blisters I had on my feet. I don't want to give you the gory details." Savannah Guthriereveals this was 'the hardest' topic to write about in her book on faith Guthrie pointed to her divorce as an example of one of those topics she did not want to go into further detail about in her writing. "I'm not blaming anyone, but I don't really want to get into it," she said. Guthrie has been married to Michael Feldman since 2014. They have two children together. Speaking toUSA TODAY in 2024, Guthrie described "Mostly What God Does" as a "really vulnerable and personal" series of reflections on faith. "It's that way because in so many ways, this is the book that I need to read," she said. "… I need to be reminded, like we all do, that God loves us and is on our side and has an eternal promise to be present to us." Contributing: Erin Jensen This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Savannah Guthrie talks 'horrible' divorce from Mark Orchard