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Savannah Guthrie will be returning to TODAY and has opened up about her decision to come back to “this beautiful place that we call home.” In the third part of Savannah’s interview with Hoda Kotb that aired on TODAY March 27, the TODAY co-anchor spoke about why she is coming back amidst the ongoing search for her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie.
Hoda shared that Savannah’s first day back will be Monday, April 6, the day after Easter. It will mark her first in-studio appearance on the show since Jan. 30, which was two days before her mother was reported missing from her home in Arizona. “It’s hard to imagine doing it because it’s such a place of joy and lightness, and I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not,” Savannah said. “But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now.” “I want to smile. And when I do, it will be real,” she continued. “I will have joy. And my joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer. And being there is joyful. And when it’s not, I’ll say so. And I have been so grateful to have this family. I consider this my family, my greater family.” Savannah expanded on her thought process when deciding to return to the show. “When times are hard, you want to be with your family. And I want to be with my family,” Savannah said in reference to her TODAY 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.’” Savannah had previously expressed to the TODAY family that she planned on returning to the show. She paid an off-camera visit to Studio 1A at Rockefeller Center on March 5 to show her gratitude for the support for her family. “I really wanted to come and see everybody,” she told Hoda. “I just love this beautiful place that we call home, where we get to come and be every day. And I know how much people have prayed for me and loved me. “All the people that you see on TV, and then all the people that you don’t. All the notes and messages that I have received are just so beautiful. I just wanted to be with my family. They’re my family, too.” Savannah also spoke about what is giving her the strength to make her return to TODAY while the search continues for her mother in Arizona. After Savannah’s father died when she was just 16, she watched how Nancy faced the aftermath of a devastating loss. “Faith is how I will stay connected to my mom,” she said. “I won’t let sadness win, for her. I saw her grieve. I saw her world shudder. I saw it. And I saw her get up, and I saw her belief, and I saw her love, and I saw her hope, and I saw her smile, and I saw her laugh. I saw her joy.” “I saw her love for the world and adventure. I saw her belief. I saw her faith,” she continued. “She taught me, she taught all of us. And I may not do it as well as her, but I will do it. I will do it for my kids. I will. I will not fall apart. I will not let whoever did this take my children’s mother from them.” The search for Nancy has stretched to nearly two months after she was reported missing on Feb. 1. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI believe she was forcibly taken from her home outside Tucson, and they continue to sift through thousands of leads in an attempt to find her. Authorities are searching for a masked and armed man captured on surveillance video outside Nancy’s home on the night of her disappearance. “I will not let them take my joy,” Savannah said about the person or people who may have abducted her mother. “They will not take my sister’s joy. They will not take my brother’s joy. They will not take our love. They will not take our faith. “But our anguish is real. We need help. We need someone to tell the truth. I have no anger in my heart. I have hope in my heart. I have love. But this family needs peace.” Savannah described her mindset as the investigation continues. “I don’t think we deserve anything more or less than any other person,” she said. “We don’t say, ‘Why us?’ ‘Why me?’ ‘Why anything?’ If I say, ‘Why me?’ for this horrible thing, then I have to say, ‘Why me?’ for all the beautiful blessings of my life. Well, then, yes, why? I don’t know why. “I’m grateful for my blessings, and I’m heartbroken for the sorrow. I’m heartbroken. I am crushed, but I am not abandoned.” She expressed her hope that someone with information about her mother’s case will come forward. “We are not alone,” she said. “Though we need an answer, and someone has it in their power to help. It is never too late. “And when you do, the warmth of love and forgiveness that will come will be greater than can be imagined. I know what it is to be forgiven.”
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