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SadExercises420 Mar 27, 2026 +555

Idk. I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I guess trying to go back to work is the natural thing.

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logorrhea69 Mar 27, 2026 +195

I can’t even imagine how much of a mental toll her mom’s disappearance has taken on her and her siblings. Although not even close to the same situation, when my mom died, I found work helpful because I didn’t have to spend all of my time thinking about her being gone.

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darceySC Mar 28, 2026 +83

Reminds me of when Weird Al Yankovic made the decision to continue his tour after learning that both of his parents, had passed away on the same day due to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. He said it gave his mind a break from the pain as he could just focus on just the moment of performing.

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mjzim9022 Mar 28, 2026 +53

I was at that performance the night he learned what happened, (we didn't know until after the fact, but Al knew before the concert) you'd never know anything was wrong, just one of the best concert experiences you could ever imagine because Weird Al shows are amazing

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d_ippy Mar 27, 2026 +87

Her interview is heartbreaking. She blames herself for being famous making her mom a target. She still doesn’t sleep at night agonizing about how her mom might have been tortured. I can’t imagine.

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sigaven Mar 28, 2026 +14

It’s so sad because her job is to be bubbly and joyful on TV - i can’t imagine how hard it will be to put on that face every morning. Maybe it will help her, though.

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jr_randolph Mar 27, 2026 +25

This is true, I'm still surprised she doesn't want to take some time away from being on TV every f****** day.

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SadExercises420 Mar 27, 2026 +69

Yeah it’s her normal though. She’s trying to get back to some semblance of normal.

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flyinwhale Mar 28, 2026 +25

I had a pretty hard thing happen during a time I was a group fitness instructor and my manager made me take time off but all I wanted was to teach because putting the microphone on and slipping into my teaching persona was such a deeply reliable way of escapism for me

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jr_randolph Mar 28, 2026 +6

I can understand that and appreciate you sharing.

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Gambit6x Mar 27, 2026 +26

Maybe it gives her a much needed distraction.

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jr_randolph Mar 27, 2026 +15

I mean yeah, that's the idea...I just find it difficult given what she does as a job. It's easier if she's a producer...just back in a room or even if she's just an actress and not in a movie for a year but this is just a lot of attention on her every day but if it helps her.

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Halftied Mar 27, 2026 -25

I think when a network is paying a personality as much as they do, the viewer deserves more than being a distraction for that person. I am not trying to be cold hearted but a job is a job especially in the entertainment business.

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psyne Mar 27, 2026 +20

What a weird take. Just because coming back to work might be a helpful distraction doesn't mean she's incapable of work. She said she'll be different, she didn't say she'll be incompetent at her job. Of course she's going to be different. Significant events in a person's life change them as a person. I'm sure Liam Neeson would say the death of his wife changed him, but that doesn't mean he wasn't able to do his job when he got back to it.

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napsterwinamp Mar 27, 2026 +7

I don’t know what makes you think she won’t take the job as seriously as she did before? Her returning to work to ground herself back into normalcy is not necessarily the same as winging it. Plus, TV personalities/anchors are still people, they all have days where they have to phone it in a bit, and often without the audience realizing.

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Gambit6x Mar 28, 2026 +3

I’m surprised that you can speak with so much certainty when you have never met her nor do you do her job. Maybe she’s an extremely capable human being. Maybe she can be professional most if not all of the time in front of others. Why are you judging so hard.

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jst4wrk7617 Mar 28, 2026 +8

She has taken time away. But this is her job. And at some point it’s natural to want to get back to your routine to try and recover from the grief.

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Cute_Source5417 Mar 27, 2026 +2

yeah maybe she gradually comes in? tuesdays and thursdays?

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CannonWheels Mar 28, 2026 -8

that $8,000,000.00 salary is probably a good motivator.

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MC_chrome Mar 27, 2026 +113

This whole situation has been equal parts tragic as it has been puzzling. I feel awful for Savannah & her family

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Odd_Cake3759 Mar 27, 2026 +80

So horrible that she has to go on not knowing what happened to her mom.

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Difficult_Garage_431 Mar 28, 2026 +50

It's unfathomable that this happens to families and they just have to continue with never knowing. The world keeps turning, but it seems like it shouldn't. Heartbreaking.

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Icy_Marzipan_2481 Mar 27, 2026 +163

This is really weird how she was just kidnapped like that , and still no leads to this day.

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Seraphix Mar 28, 2026 +45

Incompetent ass FBI run by an incompetent ass fool

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RevolutionNumerous21 Mar 27, 2026 -109

Inside job

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Petrichordates Mar 28, 2026 +40

It would be much easier to find them if that were the case.

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Powerful_Leg8519 Mar 27, 2026 +96

My heart breaks for her and the family. What a senseless tragedy.

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NeverEverAfter21 Mar 27, 2026 +26

I can’t even imagine what this is doing to her. 💔

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Bldn_HrtGenX Mar 28, 2026 +1

I feel the same way. People who criticize the news coverage by comparing all the other missing person cases in the world bother me. Of course I empathize with them but this case is truly different. I can't even imagine not knowing what happened.

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imatinyleopard Mar 28, 2026 +27

“"I will have joy. And my joy will be my protest," Guthrie added. "My joy will be my answer. And being there is joyful. ... I'm not going to be the same. But maybe it's like that old poem: 'More beautiful in the broken places.” Gah. Every clip I see i wind up crying.

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mmlickme Mar 28, 2026 +12

I watched her interview. I pray I never go through any similar experience but god forbid if I do I hope I can articulate myself as well afterwards as Savannah

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seekingssri Mar 27, 2026 +63

I think about her every day. As someone who absolutely adores my mommy, I don’t know how she goes on. My heart aches for her whole family. I can’t imagine anything worse than just not knowing.

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Madame_Deadly Mar 27, 2026 +27

Anybody who loses a loved one is never ever going to be the same. Best to just lose yourself into something like work.

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ryanchapelle Mar 28, 2026 +15

At least many of us have closure, know cause of death, and their final resting place. Even a chance for one last goodbye. To not have any of that is just unfathomably heartbreaking to me.

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Ms-Tenenbaum Mar 28, 2026 +12

I’m honestly surprised. I would have thought that she wouldn’t return or if she did that it would be an alternative role. She must be in tremendous pain and the today show has become so sensationalized that the daily use of personal tragedy in the name of ratings is gross. I doubt that she could tolerate it for long. I wish her the best. It must be hell for all of them.

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ZbornakFromMiami Mar 28, 2026 +6

I lost my mom 2 months ago and went back at the beginning of this month and its been so hard. I just feel absolutely numb. I at least had closure with my mom's passing. I was with her in her final moments. I can't even imagine trying to smile in front of millions while people are analyzing every second of your life and some even blaming you for your mom missing. She is stronger than most people and I truly hope her going back go work helps her heal.

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SantaBarbaraMint Mar 28, 2026 +1

Lost my mom two years ago and I’m just starting to get over it the last six months or so It’s a hurt that never really leaves you

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shinra_soldiers Mar 28, 2026 +13

I mean….. her mother is clearly dead. I think she knows that now and she has to get back to daily life. Going back to work is going to be hard whenever she does it so might as well do it now

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Sarahndipity44 Mar 27, 2026 +11

The work may be a nice distraction for her, honestly.

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joeschmoagogo Mar 27, 2026 +7

This is gonna be ghoulish.

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TiaHatesSocials Mar 28, 2026 +2

I like her. I used to watch her in a morning when I didn’t have cable or streaming services since that channel was for free. She was always so happy and chirpy and positive and just a good person. My heart aches for her so much. I cannot imagine the guilt she feels and probably blames herself for this since she probably thinks it’s because of her money that her mother was targeted. It wasn’t ur fault!! 😭😭

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zeldasusername Mar 28, 2026 +1

My mum died of natural causes and I'll never be the same I can't fathom how this must feel

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CDavis10717 Mar 27, 2026 -51

For someone that wore God on her sleeve and wrote books about God’s influence in her life, squaring what God allowed to happen to her mother is going to be difficult, and on live TV, no less.

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BlurryUFOs Mar 27, 2026 +42

what an odd thing to say. Do you think religious people believe they’re immune to anything bad happening to them. what is your thought process here?

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CodyCrochetZ Mar 27, 2026 +16

It’s the issue of free will. If god is omniscient and omnipotent then he created the universe in a way which he knew would result in her mom being kidnapped. If he wasn’t able to predict that then he isn’t omnipotent or omniscient. It’s a glaring contradiction in theology. Either god is not all powerful or he is intentionally causing evil things to happen to us.

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knbo674 Mar 27, 2026 +6

Ya know sometimes we should just keep our opinions to ourselves. I'm atheist as well but this is an extremely insensitive thing to say given the subject matter.

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CodyCrochetZ Mar 27, 2026 +5

No the f*** it isn’t. If I was saying this to savanna Guthries face, sure, but who exactly is the victim here?

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knbo674 Mar 28, 2026 +4

Savannah is the victim lmao it's not that hard to have some compassion.

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AmandalorianWiddall Mar 27, 2026 +5

Let people use their faith to comfort them.

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CodyCrochetZ Mar 27, 2026 +6

When did I stop them?

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Silver_Song3692 Mar 27, 2026 +2

r/im14andthisisdeep

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CodyCrochetZ Mar 27, 2026 -8

Fairly basic epistemology. You thought that was intended to be deep? Yikes.

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Silver_Song3692 Mar 27, 2026 +7

>”Fairly basic epistemology” That made me gag even harder lol

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CodyCrochetZ Mar 27, 2026 -6

And? You’ve already demonstrated that you’re in over your head. It’s not remotely surprising that a word with more than 3 syllables is intimidating to you. Be honest, you had to google “epistemology”, right? 🤣

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Silver_Song3692 Mar 27, 2026 +5

In over my head about what, talking to some dude mentally masturbating on Listnook?

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CodyCrochetZ Mar 28, 2026

I mean, if you don’t even understand what subject we’re talking about then you’re even more lost than I thought. 🤣

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jrkooljake109 Mar 27, 2026 +11

You sound lovely. Someone is at what is probably the lowest point of their life, and this is the question you want to ask? These are real people.

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Special_Yogurt_1401 Mar 27, 2026 +3

Not really a question, more of a statement.

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jrkooljake109 Mar 27, 2026 -2

That changes absolutely nothing about what I said.

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OrkidingMe Mar 27, 2026 +3

It’s a valid thought and a compassionate one. Why would you see unkindness when there was none?

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jrkooljake109 Mar 27, 2026 +5

Maybe I took it wrong, but to me it read like “how are you going to try and reconcile your faith in god with this bad thing that happened.” It’s not an invalid thought, but the timing is bad. I’m not sure how it could be taken as compassionate though.

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OrkidingMe Mar 27, 2026 +4

Because if someone is completely religious, something so calculatedly cruel would be tough to reconcile with; especially because she (Savannah)feels that it was her fame that made her mom a target. The previous user was just wondering how tough that’d be, that too on live TV. Edit: Adding one more sentence. It’s processing grief and horror in public.

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Status_Commercial509 Mar 27, 2026 +6

Very much came off like “where’s your god now, Flanders?” to me.

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jrkooljake109 Mar 27, 2026 +3

Didn’t really read it that way. Interesting take. The phrasing of “wore god on her sleeve” has a negative connotation that to me, sounds more mean spirited. I can’t read OP’s mind, but that’s just how I perceived it.

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OrkidingMe Mar 27, 2026 +4

Ah, I see. I took it to mean “open about her faith”. Similar to “she wore her heart on her sleeve”. Thanks for explaining your point

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jrkooljake109 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Likewise!

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Special_Yogurt_1401 Mar 27, 2026 -2

Just sayin

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Flooping_Pigs Mar 27, 2026 +2

Idk the original poster sounds like a troll farm propagandist especially with the "English as a second language" kind of typo they replied with, I don't think it's a topic brought up in good faith

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CDavis10717 Mar 27, 2026

I not criticizing her at all.

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yikesafm8 Mar 27, 2026 +5

As an agnostic person I find this weird to bring up

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unicornman95 Mar 27, 2026 -21

Won't someone think of the millionaire-celebrity on tv?! Get real.

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knbo674 Mar 27, 2026 +10

Dude her elderly mom got f****** kidnapped. TV star or not that's pretty fucked up thing to have happen to you.

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Any-Sir8872 Mar 27, 2026 +4

money isn’t everything. there’s plenty of people that make way less than her who wouldn’t trade lifestyles with guthrie for a second if it meant losing their moms that way. myself included

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Tess47 Mar 27, 2026

I understand your statement. Its a study in behavior.

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Jazzlike-Ad7974 Mar 27, 2026 -15

Well, our Lord and Savior works in mysterious ways! You can never let his challenges shake your faith. He decides our fate whether it’s terrible or not it’s His plan

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ladystarkitten Mar 27, 2026 +12

I for one hope that I am not kidnapped and murdered to teach someone a lesson as part of some plan I never consented to participating in. And I hope that, should that happen, nobody attempts to find solace in my suffering by assuming that that suffering was deemed necessary by an unproven, unknowable being.

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ten_year_rebound Mar 27, 2026 +10

It’s His plan this elderly woman was abducted from her home and killed! It’s His plan that 150 girls in Iran got bombed! It’s His plan that 250 children die of cancer every day! It’s all his plan! “He works in mysterious ways” is just an excuse to reconcile all the terrible things in the world.

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Jazzlike-Ad7974 Mar 27, 2026 -4

I’m not religious at all I just thought it would be useful to act as insane as they are to help put their compromised psyche into perspective

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ten_year_rebound Mar 27, 2026 +4

You got me good then. It’s so hard to tell

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KtinaDoc Mar 27, 2026 -26

She shouldn't come back

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Grouchy_Chemical9949 Mar 27, 2026 +13

I wouldn't assume so much as to say "shouldn't". It's her life, not yours. You can choose to watch or not. That's YOUR choice. HER choice is to return to work. Wishing her and her family the best.

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Specialist_Key_8606 Mar 27, 2026 +8

Thank you! I have lost both parents, but never in such a way like this. Nobody should judge anyone’s path in grief.

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Grouchy_Chemical9949 Mar 27, 2026 +2

I'm so sorry for your losses. A friend once said to me, "Grief is weird." It's a simple truth but one that I come back to often. Grief seems to come in waves - some good, some bad, some big, some small, some out of nowhere. It's hard to prepare for and impossible to avoid. Finding your way through loss is like learning a dance only you know the steps to, and you're making it up a step at a time. Grace and understanding, not judgment, is best, IMO.

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Specialist_Key_8606 Mar 27, 2026 +2

I adore your dance analogy. So true. I like to define it as finding a new normal. It’s rough. But in Savannah’s case, this is not a loss due to illness. I cannot begin to imagine what that is like. I just hope the family finds closure.

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Grouchy_Chemical9949 Mar 27, 2026 +2

I mean, where do you even begin picking up the pieces? Some people are dealt horrible hands in life. If I had any wish in this, it would be that SG not blame herself. I hope her new normal (that's a great way of putting it because you can refer to it as sadly or as sarcastically as you need to - kind of looking at gas prices for the past month) is one of healing and closure too. I do hope the family finds their mom so that they can bring her home. That's important.

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Gambit6x Mar 27, 2026 +14

And you shouldn’t eat Taco Bell past midnight but it happens.

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legallyfm Mar 28, 2026 +1

Never your place in dictating how someone should grieve

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[deleted] Mar 27, 2026 -6

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No-Problem-4228 Mar 28, 2026 +5

Why is there always some idiot posting this c***? You want to bring attention to those cases? At least make a post specific to those cases with some details. At least name one person you want to "bring attention to"

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