Source: Radio New Zealand
After a two-month absence sparked by her 84-year-old mother’s apparent abduction, Savannah Guthrie will return to NBC’s Today show next month.
Former co-host Hoda Kotb said after her emotional interview with Guthrie aired that the broadcaster will return on the 6th of April.
“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,” Guthrie said.
“I think it’s part of my purpose right now. I want to smile and when I do, it will be real 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,” she continued.
Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on 1 February. Authorities believe she was kidnapped or taken against her will.
The FBI released surveillance videos of a masked man who was outside Guthrie’s front door in Tucson on the night she vanished.
Guthrie shared that she and her siblings knew that their mother’s disappearance wasn’t a case of a person wandering off, given the pain she was living with and knowing that blood was found on the front doorstep and a camera had been yanked off.
She said they knew something was very wrong and her brother knew immediately that their mother had been kidnapped for ransom.
The longtime co-anchor said they don’t know that their mother was taken because of her, but acknowledged that it would make sense and that was “too much to bear.”
While she said some of the purported ransom notes were fake, Guthrie said she believed the two that she and her siblings responded to were real.
– Published by EveningReport.nz and AsiaPacificReport.nz, see: MIL OSI in partnership with Radio New Zealand
