It’s been two months since Savannah Guthrie returned to NBC today She appears amidst the ongoing disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie.
Still struggling to get through her day, Savannah Guthrie shared on Monday when she joined her best friend Jenna Bush Hager as a guest co-host on the fourth hour of the show. todaynow known as Today with Jenna and Chenelle.
“I can’t even look at you every day without crying,” Savannah Guthrie told Bush Hager through tears. “You’re my best friend. You know, it’s really hard to go back. I’ve been trying so hard to keep it together, I promise I will.”
“When I see you in the morning, I know you see me, no matter what happens,” Savannah Guthrie told Bush Hager. “And sometimes it’s too much because I feel like doing the job that I have to keep it together, get it together. But I’m happy to be back. It’s like two hours in my day – not that I don’t think about it, because I do, but it’s something that needs to be done and it brings me so much happiness to be with everyone. But, no, it’s not easy.”
Savannah Guthrie added that she had not forgotten her mother’s tragic case, but it came back again today Offers a “little bit of relief” from the pain you feel.
And I shared that connection I felt with her today Her colleagues were part of what prompted her to return to the NBC morning show.
“You are my family. I don’t think if I had any other type of work I would have tried to go back to it,” she said. “I just felt like, what should I do?” My mother would say the same thing: “Just keep going, just keep going.” And it’s hard when you’re with your best friend not to be real.
Bush Hager noted earlier in their conversation that it was National Best Friends Day, making Savannah Guthrie’s appearance especially appropriate.
But Savannah Guthrie said she has been hesitant to co-host with Bush Hager since her return despite their close friendship.
“I was a little afraid to do this show with you,” she said, recalling how Bush Hager had asked her before and said she wasn’t ready. “I couldn’t look at you in this place where we only talk about life and tell the truth about life and not tell the truth about my life.”
Although Savannah Guthrie may look happy todayShe did not forget what happened to her mother.
“I know people are probably wondering: ‘What’s going on? How can she do this job? Is she not thinking about it? Have you forgotten?” No, never. She said: Never.
“She’s always with me,” Savannah Guthrie said of her mother’s disappearance. “I cry every morning on my way to work, and I cry every morning on my way home. I’m grateful to have good friends and to be able to come to this beautiful, joyful, supportive place. Like a lot of people out there, you can combine all of those things. I try to tell my kids that too. We can take our sadness and we can take our joy. And if you don’t believe it, just watch me.”
Bush Hager also spoke about Savannah Guthrie’s faith and called him a marvel. But Savannah Guthrie admitted that it’s been a struggle lately.
“I’m working on solving this problem step by step; it’s not easy,” she said.
As for her mother’s condition, she said: “We still need everyone’s prayers. I hope someone will call and say what they know and tell the truth.”
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing on February 1 after she did not show up at a friend’s house to watch a live broadcast of a church service from Savannah Guthrie’s church in New York. A day later, local authorities said they believed she had been kidnapped.
Since then, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI have led a search to find Nancy Guthrie, but a suspect in her disappearance has yet to be named. But they released surveillance footage showing a masked person at her front door.
Savannah Guthrie was off the NBC morning show in the weeks following her mother’s disappearance, as she and her siblings regularly posted video messages demanding their mother’s return and offering to negotiate with Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnappers, and she continued to offer a $1 million reward for any information leading to her recovery, in addition to a $100,000 FBI reward.
During her absence, the former Savannah Guthrie today Her colleague Hoda Kotb returned to the show, replacing her friend as co-host. Kotb also interviewed Savannah Guthrie in late March, where Savannah Guthrie spoke about learning of her mother’s disappearance and shared her perspective as the investigation unfolded. She also then revealed that she would be returning to her role as co-host of the NBC morning show, with April 6 being her first day back.
“I will not break down. I will not let whoever did this take the mother of my children from them. I will not let them take my joy,” Savannah Guthrie told Kotb. “They won’t take my sister’s joy. They won’t take my brother’s joy. They won’t take our love. They won’t take our faith. But our suffering is real.”
But she demanded answers about her mother’s whereabouts.
“I also said to myself, ‘Oh my God, I can handle anything, I can handle anything. I can’t deal with not knowing. We cannot deal with not knowing. I must know.’ And I heard a voice. And he said, ‘You know where she is. She is with me. She is with me.’ So, whether she is on this earth or in heaven, I know where she is. I know who is with her. But we have to know.”
In an Instagram post highlighting Savannah Guthrie’s look Jenna and Chenille, today He also highlighted the reward for information about Nancy Guthrie and urged anyone with information to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Guthrie also used Instagram this weekend to remind people of the ongoing search for her mother, sharing a post to her Instagram Stories of a painting showing the Ascension of Christ.
The text read: “Oh my God, my soul is screaming, oh my soul, it’s screaming.” “Bring her home.”
