Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie opened up to the public on Monday about how she’s coping with the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie.
Guthrie spoke about her mother at the beginning of the “Today with Jenna & Sheinelle” talk show hosted by Jenna Bush Hager. The women talked about how Guthrie has been coping over the last several months before launching into the day’s stories.
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“I’ve just marveled — as somebody that knows you and loves you — at your strength,” Hager addressed Guthrie. “Coming back here and leading this ship, which I know has not been easy, and yet here you are, morning after morning, getting out of bed, spending the mornings with us, and I know so many of you at home feel the same way.”
Guthrie called Hager her best friend and said it’s hard to look at her every day on set without crying.
“It’s really hard to come back, and I’ve been trying so hard to hold it together,” Guthrie said.
She thanked her coworkers on camera and those behind the scenes for being such a supportive network.
“It’s like, when I see you in the morning, I know that you see me no matter what is going on,” Guthrie said. “Sometimes it’s almost too much because I feel like to do the job I have to keep it together, pull it together.”
Guthrie expressed how much returning to work has helped her.
“It’s not that I’m not thinking about it, because I am … but it brings me a lot of joy to be with everybody,” Guthrie said. “But it’s not easy.”
Guthrie said it was her close-knit work family that helped her come back.
“I don’t think if I had any other kind of job I would have even tried to come back,” she said. “My mom would have said, ‘Honey, just keep going,’ and I am.”
“We’ll have your back. We’ll be with you forever with this,” Hager said.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing since January 31, apparently kidnapped from her secluded home in Arizona’s Catalina Foothills without her phone or critical medications.
“We still need everybody’s prayers. We still wish someone would call and say what they know,” Savannah Guthrie said on Monday.
She ended by telling her audience it’s possible to hold joy and sadness at the same time.
“It’s always with me,” she said. “I cry every morning on the way to work, and I cry on the way home. We can hold our sadness, and we can hold our joy, and if you don’t believe it, just watch me, I’m going to show you.”
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