Savannah Guthrie to return to ‘Today’ show amid search for her missing mom

Savannah Guthrie said she will return to her role as “Today” show co-host as the search for her mother, Nancy Guthrie, continues.

In part of an interview with former co-host Hoda Kotb that aired on Friday, Guthrie said she will resume hosting duties on April 6.

“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,” Guthrie said about returning to the show. “But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now.”

Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother was reported missing on Feb. 1. Both the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona have been investigating her disappearance. But other than video of a masked person captured on a home surveillance camera the morning she was reported missing, there have been no significant leads in the case and no suspect has been identified.

In a clip of the interview that was released Thursday, Guthrie said she believes two ransom notes demanding payment in bitcoin for her mother’s return were most likely authentic.

She told Kotb that she doesn’t know if her mother was targeted. She spoke candidly about the idea that her prominence in the public eye may have had something to do with her mother’s disappearance.

“I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that girl — that lady has money. We can … make a quick buck,’” Guthrie said. “I mean, that would make sense. But we don’t know.”

Guthrie suggested her decision to return to the “Today” show was daunting.

“I don’t know how to come back, and I don’t know how not to come back,” she said.

“And so I don’t know if I can do it,” she added. “I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try.”

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