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Savannah Guthrie opened up about her mother Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance in a heartbreaking Today Show interview in which the anchor confronted the idea that her mother may have been kidnapped because of her fame.
Savannah opened up to her longtime colleague and friend Hoda Kotb in her first on-camera interview since her mother’s disappearance in which she walked Kotb through every step of this saga, including how her family discovered Nancy was missing. The Today Show anchor said her brother was the first to notice this may be a kidnap for ransom.
“My brother, he spent his career in the military and worked in intelligence. … He saw very clearly right away what this was,” she told Kotb. “How dumb could I be? I just didn’t want to believe. I just said, ‘Do you think it’s because of me?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry sweetie, but yeah maybe.'”
She continued, “But I knew that. I hoped not. I mean we still don’t know. Honestly we don’t know anything.”
A motive behind the kidnapping has not been determined yet. However, Savannah confirmed the family has received multiple ransom notes, some of which she believed to be “real.”
“I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that girl — that lady has money and we could make a quick buck.’ I mean, that would make sense, but I don’t know,” she said. “But, yeah, that’s probably — it’s just too much to bear. To think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me.”
Photo: NBCIn an emotional moment later on in the 15-minute segment, Savannah apologized to her mother and her family.
“And I have to say, ‘I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry.’ I’m sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew … and my brother-in-law,” she continued. “I’m just, like, so sorry. I’m so sorry. If it is me, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.”
Nancy was discovered missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona on Jan. 31. Savannah’s family has offered a $1 million reward for “any information that leads to her recovery.”
But The Today Show anchor shared that “did hear God speak to me” at one point during the ongoing investigation.
She said, “As I said to myself, ‘I can handle anything, God, I can handle anything. I just can’t handle not knowing. We can’t handle not knowing. I have to know.’ And I heard a voice, and it said, ‘You do know where she is, she’s with me. She’s with me.’ So whether she’s on this earth still or whether she is in Heaven, I know where she is, I know who she’s with.”
The second part of Savannah’s interview will air during the 7 a.m. hour of The Today Show Friday, March 27.
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