NBC’s Tamron Hall on Prince: ‘I’ve Lost One of My Best Friends’

By Mark Joyella 

Today co-host and MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall spoke to Prince on Monday.

She wasn’t a reporter calling for a story, but a person checking on a friend who had taken ill in recent days. She said Prince told her he was fine. The pop icon’s sudden death three days later left her “doubly stunned,” as Willie Geist explained on the Today show this morning. Al Roker shared that Prince had asked Hall to visit with him last weekend, but she wasn’t able to make the trip–that decision now a profound regret.

The Today show replayed a clip from last September when Prince surprised the anchors calling in to the show:

Later, Hall called in to MSNBC, during the hour she would normally be anchoring, and told Craig Melvin about how she became such close friends with one of the most gifted artists of his time:

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