How Savannah Guthrie Really Feels About Return to TODAY Since Mom’s Disappearance

Published: June 10, 2026

By Michaela Gordoni

TODAY show host Savannah Guthrie’s mom has been missing since Jan. 31, and she’s staying strong for her ever since.

“It’s really hard to come back,” Guthrie told her co-host, Jenna Bush Hager on TODAY on June 8. “I’ve been trying so hard to hold it together, and I promise I will.”

She said her colleagues have made it a little easier with their tremendous support.

“I’m happy to be back,” Guthrie said. “It’s like the two hours of my day — 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. But no, it’s not easy.”

Her TODAY co-hosts are her family, too.

“I don’t think if I had any other kind of job I would’ve even tried to come back. I just felt like, what else should I do? And my mom would’ve said the same like, ‘Honey, just keep going, just keep going.’ And so, I am,” she said.

“I know maybe people wonder like, ‘What’s going on? How is she able to do that job? Is she not thinking about it, did she forget?’” she continued. “No, never. Never.”

Guthrie and her siblings have not lost hope of recovering their mom.

“We still need everybody’s prayers. We still wish somebody would call and say what they know,” Guthrie said.

She finds succor through her faith and God’s word.

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“There’s a part of it which says, ‘You’ll walk and not grow faint,’” Guthrie said. “And this sermon that I read talked about that. How there’s a time in life when just walking and not growing faint is about as good as it can get.”

“And that’s what I feel like I’m doing,” she continued. “I’m trying to walk and not grow faint, and it’s a gift from God that I’m able to do so. But it’s always with me. I cry every morning on the way to work, and I cry every morning on the way home.”

She knows that despite the tremendous loss, she can still be strong.

“We can hold our sadness, and we can hold our joy, and if you don’t believe it, just watch me,” she added. “I’m going to show you.”

Bush Hagar deeply admires Guthrie for her attitude.

“I just marvel, as somebody who knows you and loves you, at your strength. You coming back here and leading the ship, which I know has not been easy — and yet here you are. Morning after morning, getting out of bed,” she said with tears.

On May 10, Guthrie shared video clips of her mom.

She wrote, “mother, daughter, sister, Nonie — we miss you with every breath. We will never stop looking for you. We will never be at peace until we find you.”

On June 7, Guthrie shared a picture of angels on her Instagram story.

“Oh my, my soul, it cries out, soul, it cries out,” Guthrie wrote in the caption. “Bring her home.”

Nancy Guthrie is believed to be abducted from her Arizona home. After a five-month search, law enforcement has no solid leads as to who committed the crime.

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