Lauren Sánchez Bezos still remembers this touching interaction.   

The journalist reflected on her favorite moments from her and Jeff Bezos’ wedding in Italy last summer, including how one of her sons made her emotional with his speech. 

“One of my kids, who is dyslexic, went up there and talked about a moment that was extremely important to him,” Lauren, 56, said during her Mar. 4 appearance on the Today show. “I had no idea what he was going to say.”

True to her words, the pilot—who shares kids Evan, 18, and Ella, 17, with ex Patrick Whitesell, as well as son Nikko, 24, with ex Tony Gonzalez—was surprised when her son talked about a pivotal memory from his childhood.  

“He was in the 4th grade, not writing well, and he wrote this sentence that says, ‘I can do this,’” Lauren recalled, becoming visibly emotional. “It was his first sentence, and that’s really late to be writing your first sentence as any parent with a kid with dyslexia knows. I blew (that paper) up and I put it in our kitchen. Anyway, he talked about how special that moment was for him.”