Savannah Guthrie’s first sit-down interview following mom Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance was an emotional one.
Savannah, 54, returned to Today for the three-part conversation with former colleague Hoda Kotb, which started airing on Wednesday, March 25. The women shed tears as they discussed the continued search for 84-year-old Nancy, who went missing from her Arizona home on February 1.
“Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony. … It is unbearable,” Savannah said on Wednesday. “And to think of what she went through. I wake up every night in the middle of the night. Every night. And in the darkness, I imagine her terror. And it is unthinkable.”
Authorities have yet to name a suspect in her disappearance. However, the FBI released a series of photos and videos of a person wearing an all-black outfit, including a face covering, which were captured on Nancy’s doorbell camera the night she went missing.
Savannah and her family continue to release statements, asking anyone who might have any information to come forward.
“She needs to come home now,” Savannah told Kotb on Wednesday.
During the second part of the interview, released on Thursday, March 26, Savannah said she’s still leaning on her “strong and resolute” faith. She’s also still speaking about her mom in the “present tense.”
“My mom is incredible. She’s resolute and strong, quiet strength. Quiet faith, but hard-fought. She’s funny and a little mischievous, I would say, in her humor,” Savannah said. “She’s a noble creature, she does what’s right. She walks in faith, but not fake, pious, put-on faith.”
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Savannah received a call from her sister, Annie Guthrie, who said, “Mom’s missing.” The day was full of “chaos and disbelief,” she recalled.
“She was in a panic, I was in a panic,” Savannah continued. “We thought that she must have had some kind of medical episode in the night and somehow the paramedics had come, because the back doors were propped open and that didn’t make any sense.”
From the very “early moments” of Nancy’s disappearance, the family knew something was wrong.
“She can’t wander off. My mom, she was in tremendous pain, her back was very bad. On a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail, but most days not,” Savannah said. “There was no ‘wander off.’ The doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep. The Ring camera had been yanked off. And so we were saying, ‘This is not OK.’”
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Savannah got emotional wondering whether Nancy’s kidnapping was because of her fame.
“Honestly, we don’t know anything. We don’t know anything. So, I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that lady has money, we can make a quick buck,’” she added. “That would make sense, but we don’t know. … It’s just too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside. That it’s because of me. I have to say, I’m so sorry, Mommy.”
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Savannah said that she and her “amazing” siblings, Annie and Camron, are “a unit.”
“We came together with all these beautiful gifts that came from our mom and dad and from God, and somehow together we did our best to come up with the words to say [in our video],” she shared. “I haven’t posted one thing or said one thing that the three of us haven’t decided together.”
Savannah and husband Michael Feldman try to give their kids, Vale, 11 and Charley, 9, “a little more certainty than we have” when updating them on the situation.
“It’s so hard with kids,” she explained. “You want to protect them.”
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Savannah confirmed that there were “different notes” that came through.
“Most of them, it’s my understanding, I think are not real. I didn’t see them. A person that would send a fake ransom note really has to look deeply at themselves,” she added. “But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to — I tend to believe those are real.”
As the investigation continues, Savannah said that she has moved houses “many times” because people are not “respectful” of what’s happening to her family.
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The Today anchor said the video is “absolutely terrifying” to watch.
“I’m glad and grateful to the investigators and the technology companies that were able to find that video,” Savannah said. “So, I hope at least with people of good heart and compassion stop the irresponsible and cruel speculation that had started to swirl. I’m glad that people saw what came to our door.”
She also said there are “no words” for the rumors that her family was involved in Nancy’s disappearance.
“I don’t understand, I’ll never understand. And no one took better care of my mom than my sister and my brother-in-law,” she added. “No one protected my mom more than my brother. We love her, and she is our shining light. She is our matriarch. She’s all we have.”
Savannah didn’t say much about the ongoing investigation but noted that the family needs “answers” about Nancy’s whereabouts.
“We cannot be at peace without knowing,” she explained. “And someone can do the right thing. And it is never too late to do the right thing. Our hearts are focused on that.”
