Hoda Kotb admits she’s “terrified” about the next chapter after leaving “Today.”

Hoda Kotb admits she’s a little scared of what awaits her next quitting the “Today” show..

“Yes, it’s scary. It’s terrifying. It is all those things, but it is also exactly right,” said the newsreader, 60, said on “Today with Hoda & Jenna” Friday.

Kotb explained that 75 percent of herself has moved on “emotionally,” but the other part of her is still coming to terms with her decision because she’s still at NBC and hasn’t quite started her next chapter yet.

However, the “Today” show host — who has worked on the morning news program for 26 years — said she has decided to “fall in love” with the idea of ​​new beginnings.

“Every time I made a jump, a move, a jump, it was like I fell in love,” she explained. “Then I moved to this cityI fall in love. I’m going to fall in love with a place, a restaurant, a friend, I’m going to meet a friend.”

Kotb likened her new start to “repotting” a plant, where you are “pulled up by your roots, your foundation, everything that grounds you and your roots hang in the air.”

She even wonders where she will “land” before realizing that “life is largely about decision making.”

Kotb concluded, “When you love something, it’s hard to say goodbye to it because there’s no point, but there was something for me in recognizing a high point and saying at that high point, ‘I don’t feel like there is something’. an opportunity that would make this even better than it is now.”

“Once that feeling hits you, it’s like this is it. I don’t want to spend the rest of my days trying to recreate the top of the mountain. It was glorious. It was unforgettable.”

The renowned journalist appeared in September burst into tears and explained why she made the ‘difficult’ decision to leave.

“I just turned 60 and it was such a monumental moment for me when I turned 60 years old because I started thinking about that decade. Like, ‘What does that decade mean? What does it mean? What is it going to do for me?’” she said during the live broadcast.

An insider added to Page Six at the time: “It is heartbreaking for everyonebut Hoda wants to be able to take her children to school.’

The source added at the time that NBC execs were still trying to figure out how to bring Kotb into some of their future projects in “some capacity,” whether it be special interviews or her “Today”-adjacent podcast .

However, other insiders also told Page Six last month that Kotb’s decision was not hasty, and she had been “I think about it for a long time.”

Still, a source noted: “People were shocked. It’s still very shocking.”