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Hoda Kotb's Dream Comes True at 2024 Paris Olympics When She Meets Tom Cruise -- See the Moment

Hoda Kotb's longtime dream came true when she excitedly met Tom Cruise at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

It marked her first performance since halting her worldwide tour and stepping back from public life after revealing her diagnosis with Stiff Person Syndrome in December 2022. The French ballad was written to the love of Piaf’s life, boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died in a plane crash barely a month after it was first performed. ET spoke with neurology specialist Dr. Duarte Machado prior to Dion's comeback performance, who dubbed her return to the stage "extraordinary."

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