Savannah Guthrie will return to Today on Monday, April 6, amid her mother’s suspected abduction.
The update was confirmed on Friday as the third part of Guthrie’s interview with Hoda Kotb aired, in which the co-anchor spoke about why she is coming back as the search for her elderly mother, Nancy, continues.
It will mark her first in-studio appearance on the show since Jan. 30, two days before her mother was reported missing from her Arizona home.
“When times are hard, you want to be with your family. And I want to be with my family,” said Guthrie about her colleagues. “And so I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try. I would like to try… I’m not going to be the same,” she added. “But maybe it’s like that old poem: ‘More beautiful in the broken places.’”
Guthrie’s first interview since her mother’s disappearance nearly two months ago aired this week. The TV host told Kotb she believes there is a good chance Nancy was taken as a way “to make a quick buck” because of her own fame and wealth.
She also went into more depth about how her family discovered Nancy was missing. On Feb. 1, Savannah Guthrie’s sister Annie Guthrie called her in a panic. Nancy Guthrie, 84 and pretty immobile, was missing from her Tucson, Arizona, home. Her back doors were open and Nancy’s cellphone and purse were left behind — and then there was the blood on the porch and the forcibly removed doorbell camera.
It is not known as fact that this was a kidnapping for ransom. Investigators believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will, but have not arrested a suspect.
More to come…
