Savannah Guthrie returned to co-hosting duties on Today on Monday for the first time since the disappearance of her mother, Nancy.
After running through headlines of the day, Guthrie, with a smile, said, “It is good to be home.”
“Yes, it is good to have you back at home,” said her co-host, Craig Melvin.
Guthrie then went into the news. “Well, here we go, ready or not. Let’s do the news.”
Guthrie’s last appearance as co-host was in Late January. Her mother was last seen on Jan. 31, when a friend dropped her off at her Tucson area home. She was reported missing the next day. Authorities released video of a masked person at Nancy Guthrie‘s front door, captured by a security camera, but they have not identified any suspects in her abduction.
In an interview with Hoda Kotb, her former co-host, last month, Guthrie said, “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.”
“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 will say so.”
