“It’s hard to imagine doing it because it’s such a place of joy and lightness… 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,” Guthrie said, discussing her eventual return to the show. “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. And I have been so grateful to have this family. I consider this my family, my greater family. And when times are hard you want to be with your family, and I want to be with my family. And so, I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore. But I would like to try. I would like to try. And I’m not going to be the same, but maybe it’s like that old poem, more beautiful in the broken places.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Guthrie discussed trying to maintain her faith and expressed her continued desire for the search to end. “We need an answer, and someone has it in their power to help,” she told Kotb. “It is never too late. And when you do, the warmth of love and forgiveness that will come will be greater than can be imagined. I know what it is to be forgiven and there is no greater joy. And that joy awaits whoever can hear this and find it in their heart to help.” Watch the whole segment below.
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