Jenna Bush Hager Lost a Stone From Her Engagement Ring at Savannah Guthrie's 50th Birthday Party—And It Was Never Found

It’s a common fear for virtually all brides: Your engagement ring slips off of your hand and goes missing. However, on a recent episode of Today With Hoda & Jenna, co-host Jenna Bush Hager unlocked a new concern—one of your stones suddenly coming loose and falling off. In the show on Monday, September 16, 2024, Bush Hager detailed the incident, which happened at Savannah Guthrie’s 50th birthday party. 

“Did you ever hear the story about Savannah’s 50th birthday?” Bush Hager asks her co-host, Hoda Kotb. “I woke up the next morning, and one of the stones out of my engagement ring had fallen out.” While Bush Hager says she wasn’t sure of the location of the missing jewel, her primary concern at the time was how to break the news to her husband, Henry Chase Hager. “I’m not exactly sure where it went, but I also had this panic like ‘Do I tell Henry now, right when I wake up, or do I tell him like after maybe he’s had some food?’” she says. Ultimately, she landed on the former, deciding it would be best to disclose the unfortunate news to her husband as soon as possible. After hearing about it, “he was… a little grumpy,” she adds. Even though the stone went missing in 2021, Bush Hager reports it still hasn’t appeared. “Never found,” she says at the end of the clip. “It was never found.” 

Unfortunately for Bush Hager, this isn’t her first experience losing one of her jewels. Earlier this year, she recounted the time when she lost her engagement ring altogether at the airport. While on route to a shoot, she brought a bag with every piece of jewelry she owned, including her engagement ring. However, when she arrived on set, the bag was missing—but not for long. A stranger at the airport found the piece, which was later returned to her. It doesn’t seem that Hager Bush was as lucky when it came to this incident. 

She’s not alone. Stones fall out of diamond rings all the time; it's are a more common experience than you may think. “There are a few things that can cause a stone to fall out of an engagement ring, the most common being a heavy impact,” Olivia Landau, gemologist and founder and CEO of The Clear Cut, previously told Brides. “For example, a prong holding the diamond could be knocked out of place or the metal could be damaged by contact against a hard surface. This can happen very quickly so you will want to check your ring immediately for any damage.” If this does occur, she advises filing an insurance claim and taking it to a jeweler to be repaired. However, to avoid any future mishaps, make sure to check it for any looseness or visible gaps. That’s a tell-tale sign that your ring may be in need of some extra attention.