Savannah Guthrie will return to her job as a co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” show on April 6, the network said on Friday, over two months after her 84-year-old mother’s ⁠unresolved ​abduction. It will be her first in-studio appearance on the show since January 30, two days before her ​mother, Nancy ​Guthrie, was reported missing ⁠from her Arizona home, NBC 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,” Savannah Guthrie said ⁠in ⁠an interview broadcast on the show Friday. “But I can’t not come ‌back, because it’s my family. ​I think it’s part ‌of my purpose right now.”

Family members last saw Nancy Guthrie ​on January ​31 after spending the evening at the Tucson home ​of her older daughter, Annie ⁠Guthrie, and her son-in-law.

The family has received ransom notes and has ‌offered ⁠a $1 million reward for information that leads to the recovery ​of Nancy Guthrie.

Authorities believe she was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will. The FBI released surveillance videos of a masked man who was outside Guthrie’s front door in Tucson on the night she vanished.

The Guthrie family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of their mother. In another part of the interview, Guthrie shared that she and her siblings knew that their mother’s disappearance wasn’t a case of a person wandering off, given the pain she was living with and knowing that doors at her home were propped open, blood was found on the front doorstep and a camera had been yanked off.

She said they knew something was very wrong, and her brother knew immediately that their mother had been kidnapped for ransom. The longtime “Today” show co-anchor said they don’t know that their mother was taken because of her, but acknowledged that it would make sense, and that was “too much to bear.”

While she said some of the purported ransom notes were fake, Guthrie said she believed the two that she and her siblings responded to were real. But the circumstances were surreal.

(With inputs from Reuters, AP)