Savannah Guthrie from The Today Show has opened up about the emotional toll of resuming work while her mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing. She confessed to shedding tears ‘every day’ since her return.
During a heartfelt conversation with cohost Jenna Bush Hager on Monday, Guthrie, 54, admitted, “I find myself crying each morning on my commute to work.”
The last known sighting of Guthrie’s mother was at her Tucson, Arizona home on the night of January 31, with suspicions of abduction surrounding her disappearance.
Expressing gratitude, Guthrie praised her colleagues for creating a “beautiful” and “supportive” atmosphere, which has been a source of comfort since she came back to the show in April after taking a break to join the search efforts.
In spite of her ongoing struggle, she vowed to remain resilient during this challenging time.
‘Like so many people out there, you can hold all of these things together. I tell that to my kids, too.
‘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,’ she said
The anchor also urged onlookers to not give up on her mother, crying at points.
‘I cry every morning on the way to work and I cry every morning on the way home,’ Savannah Guthrie, 54, said during an emotional segment on Monday’s fourth hour of the Today Show
Four months into the search for her mother Nancy, 84, the senior remains missing
‘We still need everybody’s prayers. We still wish someone would call and say what they know,’ she told Bush Hager.
Both found common ground through their Christian faith.   Â
Guthrie brought up some ‘famous scripture’ – Isaiah 40:31 – that she felt captured her current plight.
‘There’s a part of it which says, “You’ll walk and not grow faint,”‘ she said, interpreting the phrases to mean a time in one’s life ‘when just walking and not growing faint is about as good as it can get.Â
‘And that’s what I feel like I’m doing. I’m trying to walk and not grow faint, and it’s a gift from God that I’m able to do so,’ she said. Â
‘But it’s always, always with me, you know?’
Guthrie – a Today anchor since 2012 – admitted it would have been more difficult to return to ‘any other kind of job.’
‘But I just felt like, ‘Well, what else should I do?’” she said.
The hosts found common ground with their Christian faith, which Guthrie credited for helping her through
‘Bring her home,’ Guthrie wrote over an image on Instagram Sunday. It appeared to depict the ascension of Jesus Christ. Her family is offering up to $1million for information leading to Nancy’s recovery
‘And my mom would have said the same, like, “Honey, just keep going, just keep going.” And so I am.’
She posted a message to Instagram the night before that reiterated how her mother has yet to be found.
‘Bring her home,’ Guthrie wrote over an image appearing to depict the ascension of Jesus Christ – echoing her previous social media posts pleading for the public’s assistance.
The Guthrie family is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the senior’s recovery. There are no suspects, according to local police and the FBI.
Guthrie has previously said she fears that her fame and fortune may have made her mother a target for kidnappers. Nancy required medication for a heart condition to stay alive.
Guthrie has said she realizes that her mother may no longer be alive but that she and her family are desperate to bring her home anyway, so they can give her a Christian burial if necessary. Â