Savannah Guthrie Will Return to Today Show as Search for Missing Mother Continues: ‘Joy Will Be My Answer’

NBC host Savannah Guthrie will return to the Today Show on April 6, the news coming as her elderly mother’s disappearance remains under investigation.

Guthrie has not appeared in the studio since January 30 which was two days before her mother, Nancy Guthrie, vanished from her home just outside Tucson, Arizona, Today reported Friday.

“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. But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now,” Savannah explained.

“I want to smile. And when I do, it will be real. 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