Sheinelle Jones Shares Her Son Is 'Injured,' Can't Play Soccer Months After Husband Uche Ojeh's Death Rachel McRadySeptember 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM 0 Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty (2) Sheinelle Jones and her sons Kayin and Uche Jr. and with her husband, Uche Ojeh.
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Sheinelle Jones opened up about her son's recent injury that's preventing him from playing soccer
Jones said her son has been experiencing "growing pains" under his knees
This comes weeks after Jones returned to the Today show following the death of her husband, Uche Ojeh, in May
Sheinelle Jones says her son is experiencing some real-life growing pains, which are keeping him off the sports field.
Jones, 47, is mom to son Kayin, 16, and twins Uche Jr. and Clara, 13, whom she shares with her late husband Uche Ojeh.
Though she didn't specify which of her sons sustained the injury, Jones said she used his struggles to teach him an important lesson.
"I was all over the universe this weekend. My son had a soccer game, like, an hour and a half outside of the city, and he's injured," she shared on the 3rd Hour of Today on Monday, Sept. 22. "He's having this — you know you hear about growth pains or growing pains? — he's actually having them, like, under his knees. It actually is common for boys when you're growing."
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Uche Ojeh and his youngest son Uche Jr.
Opening up about the situation, the Today co-host added that she used the experience to teach her son how to be a good teammate.
"I talked to him about being a good sport, so we still drove an hour and a half to be on the bench," she said, before joking, "That was tough, 'cause I was sitting on the bench."
Jones' son's injury comes just weeks after she returned to the Today show after taking an extended hiatus from the NBC morning show. She exited Today in late 2024 in order to spend more time with Ojeh ahead of his May death.
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Sheinelle Jones and kids Kayin, Uche Jr., and Clara on the 'Today' show in 2023.
She returned to the show on Sept. 5, opening up about her grieving process and how her family is coping in the wake of Ojeh's untimely death.
"My heart is shattered in a million pieces," Jones shared in an emotional sit-down interview with Savannah Guthrie. "The life that I've known since I was 19 is no more. I've always wanted kids, and I have three kids of my own now, and they've lost their dad. And I'm their mom. It sucks."
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Sheinelle Jones and husband Uche Ojeh with kids Kayin, Uche Jr., and Clara.
At the time, Jones shared that one of the biggest struggles for her kids has been the loss of their "dad's dad," who was very involved in their lives.
"I know people say that, but I'm telling you, and I think about it, my 15-year-old, he's been to more countries than I have — World Cups and soccer camps and music theater, let's go to this play, all over the world," she said.
"The beautiful days are harder than the rainy days because the beautiful days he would have taken them out," she added. "They would have gone to kick a ball. Our first vacation after he passed, it was hard. I thought it would be this respite, we'd go to the beach, and we'd go back to our happy place, but for our boys, it was a nightmare. I'm not surfing. I'm not doing any of that stuff. I'm not kicking a soccer ball on the beach. It's been tough."
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