Fresh off vocal rest and happier than ever to be able to speak, Guthrie sat down with PEOPLE to talk about her experience

The journalist pressed the 44-year-old tennis star on a potential return to the sport for more than two minutes Wednesday morning.

Savannah Guthrie gave a shockingly candid answer about her lowest point in life, revealing it was when she and her first husband divorced.

Guthrie is mom to daughter Vale, 11, and son Charley, 9, with husband Michael Feldman

Serena Williams wouldn’t take the bait when being pressed about a possible return to professional tennis on Wednesday’s TODAY show. The athlete, 44, sat down with Savannah Guthrie, 54, to discuss her upcoming Super Bowl commercial for Ro and her weight loss journey,

Savannah Guthrie is ready to return to work. A month after undergoing vocal cord surgery, the anchor, 54, virtually called into Tuesday’s “Today Show” broadcast. Guthrie reunited with fellow co-hosts Craig Melvin, Jenna Bush Hager, Carson Daly, Al Roker and Sheinelle Jones, holding up a dry-erase board that read “Love you.”

“It was hard at first. You had to get the hang of silence and solitude and being alone with yourself,” Guthrie said of her recovery period

Today host Savannah Guthrie is in panic mode after the show’s ratings soared since she took time off for a vocal cord surgery. During that period — the final week of December 2025 and the first week of 2026 — Today had 12 percent more viewers compared to the previous year.