Savannah Guthrie‘s Today show return date has been revealed following her emotional interview about mom Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
Hoda Kotb told viewers on Friday, March 27, that Savannah, 54, might be back on the morning show’s set alongside “wonderful human being” Craig Melvin on Monday, April 6.
“Because she will not be going to let sadness win. Her joy goes to be her protest,” Melvin added. “It’s where she belongs. It’s where all of us want her to be. We cannot wait to welcome her back with open arms here.”
Savannah discussed her decision to return in depth during her conversation with Kotb on Friday.
“After I have a look at the Today show, it’s the reply to all of my dreams, actually higher than my dreams,” Savannah said. “It’s hard to assume doing it since it’s such a spot of joy and lightness. I can’t come back and check out to be something that I’m not. But I can’t not come back since it’s my family. I believe it’s a part of my purpose right away. I need to smile, and after I do, it is going to be real. And my joy might be my protest. My joy might be my answer.”
She added, “Being there may be joyful. And when it’s not, I’ll say so. And I actually have been so grateful to have this family, I consider this my family, my greater family, and when times are hard, you should be together with your family. And I need to be with my family. And so I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore. But I would really like to try.”
Throughout the portions of Savannah’s interview that aired through the Thursday, March 26, episode of Today, she addressed a wide selection of topics surrounding her 84-year-old mother’s disappearance. At one point, Savannah broke down in tears as she recalled speculating together with her brother, Camron Guthrie, about whether her fame factored into the kidnapper’s potential motive.
“I said, ‘Do you think that [it was] due to me?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry, sweetie, but yeah, possibly,’” she recounted. “But I knew that. I hope not. I mean, we still don’t know. Truthfully, we don’t know anything. We don’t know anything. So, I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and any individual thought, ‘Oh, that girl, that lady has money, we will make a fast buck.’ That might make sense, but we don’t know.”
Savannah added, “It’s just an excessive amount of to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside,” before apologizing to her mother and her family.
Savannah also reacted to the “irresponsible and cruel speculation” that anyone in her family was involved in Nancy’s disappearance.
“It’s unbearable and it piles pain upon pain. There are not any words. There are not any words. I don’t understand, I’ll never understand,” she said. “And nobody took higher care of my mom than my sister and my brother-in-law. Nobody protected my mom greater than my brother. We love her and she or he is our shining light. She is our matriarch. She’s all we now have.”
Savannah Guthrie’s first sit-down interview following mom Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance was an emotional one. Savannah, 54, returned to Today for the three-part conversation with former colleague Hoda Kotb, which began airing on Wednesday, March 25. The ladies shed tears as they discussed the continued seek for 84-year-old Nancy, who went missing from her Arizona home […]
Later within the interview, Savannah revealed that God spoke to her amid the continued seek for her mom.
“As I said to myself, ‘I can handle anything, God. I can handle anything, I just can’t handle not knowing. I actually have to know,’” she remembered, “I heard a voice and it said, ‘You do know where she is — she’s with me.’”
She concluded, “So whether she’s on this earth still or whether she is in heaven, I do know where she is, I do know who she’s with. But we’d like to know.”
Savannah’s sit-down with Kotb, 61, marks her first TV interview since her mom was reported missing in Arizona on February 1. Savannah has been on hiatus from the Today show since her mother disappeared, with Kotb filling in during her absence. Because the seek for Nancy continues, her family — who has offered a $1 million reward for information resulting in her return — remains to be hoping that somebody will reach out to the authorities with details that may bring her home.