Today’s Al Roker’s wife opens up about ‘season of sadness’ in family life during star’s time away from work [Video]

Al Roker and his wife Deborah Roberts have had a difficult few months, which was summed up by Deborah in a new video on social media on Sunday.

The ABC news reporter took to Instagram to post a personal video with her fans while at home with her family during the Labor Day long weekend.

She apologised that she hadn’t done a video for a while, admitting that it had been a “season of sadness”.

Al and Deborah’s beloved family dog Pepper passed away in June, which was a very difficult time for the couple. Not only that, but Deborah’s brother has been ill, and she lost a good friend.

She explained: “As you all know I lost my beloved Pepper and that was “very, very, hard,” and right on the heels of that, I lost a very dear friend, and on the heels of that, my brother was also very ill. So I had a number …