Savannah Guthrie On Hosting ‘Today’ As Mom Continues Missing: “We Can Hold Our Sadness & We Can Hold Our Joy”
Savannah Guthrie opened up about her struggles about going back to work on Today as her mother Nancy Guthrie continues to be missing. The NBC News host subbed in for Sheinelle Jones on the fourth hour of the morning show next to Jenna Bush Hager and got emotional as she talked ab…
Savannah Guthrie opened up about her struggles about going back to work on Today as her mother Nancy Guthrie continues to be missing.
The NBC News host subbed in for Sheinelle Jones on the fourth hour of the morning show next to Jenna Bush Hager and got emotional as she talked about the difficulties.
“I can’t really even look at you every day without crying,” Guthrie told Bush Hager. “You are my best friend and you know it’s really hard to come back. I’ve been trying so hard to hold it together, and I promise I will.”
Guthrie continued, “When I see you in the morning, I know that you see me, no matter what is going on. Sometimes, that’s almost too much because I feel like to do the job, I gotta keep it together. But I’m happy to be back and it’s like two hours of my day that — it’s not that I’m not thinking about it, because I am — but it’s something to do. It brings me a lot of joy to be with everybody. It’s not easy.”
The talk show host has not forgotten about her mother but being on the show offers a “little respite,” adding, “You are my family. I don’t think if I had any other kind of job, I would have even tried to come back. I just felt like, ‘What else should I do?’ And my mom would’ve said the same: ‘just keep going, just keep going.’ And it’s hard when you’re with your best friend to not be real.”
Although Guthrie may seem happy at moments during the Today show, she has not forgotten about what happened to her mom, saying, “I know maybe people wonder, like, ‘Whoa, what’s going on? How is she able to do that job? Is she not thinking about it? Did she forget? No, never, never.”
Guthrie said that she is still coping with ways on living with the pain of her mom’s disappearance and “working it out” and handling it “step by step.”
“It’s always with me,” she added. “I cry every morning on the way to work, and I cry every morning on the way home. I’m grateful to have good friends, and to be able to come to such a beautiful, joyous, and supportive place, and like so many people out there, you can hold all of these things together.”
“I try to tell my kids that, 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.
Watch Savannah Guthrie on the fourth hour of Today in the video below.
