Savannah Guthrie will return to anchoring the Today Show on April 6, but warns her comeback may be short-lived in wake of her mother Nancyâs abduction.
In a tearful interview with her NBC colleague Hoda Kotb broadcast Friday, Savannah said of her Today colleagues: âI have been so grateful to have this family.
âI consider this my family, my greater family, and when times are hard, you want to be with your family and I want to be with my family,â she said.
âI donât know if I can do it. I donât know if Iâll belong anymore but I would like to try.â
Savannah, whose 84-year-old mother was kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on February 1, has been off-screens since and suggested she is a fundamentally different person to the one last seen hosting from Studio One at NYCâs Rockefeller Center.
âI canât come back and try to be something that Iâm not. But I canât not come back, because itâs my family. I think itâs part of my purpose right now,â she told Kotb in the portion of the interview that aired Friday.
âI want to smile, and when I do, it will be real. My joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer. And being there is joyful.
âAnd when itâs not, Iâll say so.â
Craig Melvin confirmed Savannahâs April 6 return shortly after Fridayâs interview with his co-host.
In a tearful interview with her NBC colleague Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie shared for the first time that she may give up her career to protect her joy
Nancy Guthrie, pictured with Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing on February 1. Police believe the 84-year-old was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will from her Arizona home
Nancy Guthrie vanished in the early hours of February 1, with doorbell camera subsequently released by the FBI showing a masked gunman in black nitrile gloves on her doorstep on the evening of her disappearance.
The Guthrie family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of their mother.
Savannah, in her interview with Kotb, also suggested that she could forgive Nancyâs kidnapper if they come forward.
âWe need an answer and someone has it in their power to help,â she said, before directly addressing her motherâs abductor and potential witnesses.
âIt is never too late and when you do, the warmth of love and forgiveness, that will come, will be greater than can be imagined.
âI know what it is to be forgiven. And there is no greater joy. And that joy awaits whoever can hear this and find it in their heart to help.â
The Today show co-host further shared how her Christian faith has kept her connected to her mom and helped her survive the horrific nightmare.
The FBI released surveillance videos of a masked man who was outside Guthrieâs front door in Tucson on the night she vanished
Savannah said that she, Camron and their sister Annie still do not know for sure what triggered Nancyâs February 1 abduction from her $1.4million home in Tucson, Arizona
âGod doesnât tell us not to wrestle with him. This isnât some cheap faith and my mom taught me that. God only requires our authentic presence, and that he has,â she said.
Savannah said she ânever doubtedâ God despite the pain that her family was enduring.
âFaith is how I will stay connected to my mom. God is how Iâm holding hands with my mom. And I wonât let sadness win.â
Despite the familyâs offer of a $1 million reward for information, there has been little movement in the investigation.
The Guthrie family last weekend appealed to neighbors in Arizona to search back through their memories for anything they might have seen that could help the investigation.
Savannah doubled down on that appeal in her interview with Kotb.
âOur hearts are in agony. We canât breathe. We canât live. We canât go on. We canât be at peace. We canât go forward,â Savannah said.
âWe have to know what happened to her.â
Savannah Guthrie, pictured with her mother Nancy, shared how her faith has kept her connected to her mom and helped her survive this horrific nightmare
Annie, Savannah, Camron and Nancy Guthrie are pictured together. Savannah said that she and her siblings still do not know for sure what triggered Nancyâs abduction
Little information about the investigation has been publicly released by authorities in recent weeks.
The Pima County Sheriffâs Department and FBI said Wednesday that investigators continue to examine leads.
Savannahâs NBC interview offered some new information about the case, including what her family saw the day Nancy vanished.
The back doors of Nancyâs home were found propped open and her phone and purse were still at the residence when she disappeared, Savannah said in a portion of the interview that aired Thursday.
Then there were the propped doors, blood on the front doorstep and a camera yanked off.
Given the tremendous pain their mother suffered from, Savannah said she and her siblings instantly knew it wasnât a case of a person wandering off.
âSo we were saying, âThis is not OKââ Guthrie said. ââSomething is very wrong here.ââ
Savannah said her brother Camron was the first person to realize that Nancyâs abduction may have been linked to the TV starâs fame and wealth.
Savannah Guthrieâs interview with Hoda Kotb saw NBC confirm that she will return to the Today Show on April 6. But Savannah warned it may be short-lived comeback because âI donât know if I can do itâ in wake of mom Nancyâs abduction
She said: âMy brother, he was in the military, he saw right away what this was. He said: âI think sheâs been kidnapped for ransom.â
âI said âDo you think, because of me?â
âHe said âSorry sweetie, yeah, maybe.â But I knew that.â
Savannah said that she, Camron and Annie still do not know for sure what triggered Nancyâs abduction â before breaking down into tears as she apologized to her mother.
âI donât know that itâs because sheâs my mom and somebody thought , âOh that girl, that lady has money, we could make a quick buckâ.â
âToo much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside, that itâs because of me. I just have to say, âIâm so sorry, Mommy. Iâm so sorryâ,â Savannah told Kotb.
âIâm sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew and Tommy and my brother-in-law, just, like, Iâm so sorry, Iâm so sorry.â
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