'Faith over fear, he had it': Sheinelle Jones opens up about her relationship leading up to husband's passing

Name: 'Faith over fear, he had it': Sheinelle Jones opens up about her relationship leading up to husband's passing
Uploaded: 2025-09-05T15:24:15.000Z
Duration: 5 min 58 s
Description: In this second part of her sit down interview with Savannah Guthrie, Sheinelle Jones shares her "beautiful nightmare" taking care of her husband while he was sick with brain cancer.

In this second part of her sit down interview with Savannah Guthrie, Sheinelle Jones shares her "beautiful nightmare" taking care of her husband while he was sick with brain cancer.

Posted 9/5/2025, 3:24:15 PM Updated 9/5/2025, 3:26:05 PM

Listen We would have been married 18 years this month

and it just felt like we always kind of had

And when he was dying I would say This sucks

and it's scary but if you asked me if this

was gonna be my fate

I'll do it all over again

You showed love

You did love

You kept the faith

You fought the good fight and so did he

Uche was such a fighter and he had such strong

faith

It was his lifeline

You know I can easily understand why

When people go through something like this they turn away

from their faith

There are times where I'm like God I've been praying

for this job since I was in 5th grade like

yellow construction paper

I did the helmet hair

Miss

James will tell you I did little hoop earrings and

little box by my head in 5th grade and you

got me all the way here and you take my

husband

Are you kidding me Like really What did I do

Why me There can't be a god like no way

a god would do that to somebody like Chanel

There's no way right It would be very easy to

think that but you look at somebody like my husband

His faith is what kept him going

You talk about faith over fear he had it and

when he was low there was nothing I could say

There was nothing anyone could say the only thing that

would soothe his heart would be like praise and worship

music and it would just give him this peace and

I watched him in his toughest moments his faith is

what gave him peace and so I think OK if

Uche can have faith when his life is on the

line

Surely I can and surely we all can

And so I saw him hold onto it and so

then I I I held on to it as well

You've been incredibly strong for your kids

You have your own grief and your own sorrow but

you're also raising three kids and carrying their grief as

well

And how are they doing How are they handling their

young teenagers I mean that's what makes this harder

There are times where if I could just stay in

bed keep the door closed not answer my phone and

just sit it would be amazing

But I can't do that because I have 3 little

beings who are watching me

No one gives you a manual on grief and there

really are no rules about it

It comes at unexpected times and places

I thought grief was linear you know there will be

a day where I'm OK and I wake up everything's

going my way

I'm OK

I'm like we're gonna be all right

And then I get on the elevator and this guy

gets on and he has the same sneakers that Uche

wore in rehab and I start crying and the guy's

You know so grief is not like today it's better

it's better it's better it's better ah we're there grief

is like a wave and what I've told my kids

it's almost like rain can't last forever and so when

the rain comes in some ways I've learned to just

look up at the rain and let it be a

cleansing rain and let it clear the air and so

I don't run away from crying anymore when it comes

to grief

I see it it's like OK here comes my cleansing

rain and it's OK

And I almost feel better and then I go back

to what I'm doing and so I don't fear it

anymore we've all heard the saying that grief is just

love with no place to go and so when it

comes now

I'm like OK

You can come

We can sit for a little bit

And then OK now it's time to go and you're

you're returning to work now

You're it's back to school time it's back to work

for you this season

It's different

It is but you're still you

I'm still me and that is why I'm here

I will tell you I have feverishly searched for a

muse or like who can I admire who's lost their

husband that I can be

I went to YouTube and I I was trying to

find like the closest thing to me so I googled

Black Widow and it was just spiders

That's my truth

Fine I'll stop searching for me and just be me

I know there could be people watching me in hospital

rooms around this country and what I know to be

true is that I see you

And I'm part of this club

But cancer doesn't have to steal our joy

We can get up we can get out of bed

And we can go to work we can go to

school we can squeeze the most out of the days

that we have and and honestly I feel like Uce's

heartbeat lives on in mine

So I owe it to him to just squeeze the

most I can out of this thing it's like OK

we got this for you and so for all of

us who are grieving it's like OK we can grieve

but we can also still try to move forward we

don't move on but we move forward with our loved

ones and I hope that just by me being on

the set and me returning to work it's like OK

if I can do it so can you

Right so don't get me wrong like my heart still

hurts

So if you see me now and you see me

laughing or you turn on the morning show and I'm

laughing or having a good time you root for me

because I'm fighting for my joy