Savannah Guthrie shared many thoughts about his mother Nancy Guthrie‘s continued to disappear.
During an emotional interview on Thursday, March 26, the broadcast of TodaySavannah, 54, spoke to him Hoda Kotb about the possibility that someone targeted Nancy, 84, because of her daughter’s fame. He remembered talking to his brother, Cameronformer military intelligence officer, about the kidnapper’s possible motives.
“I said, ‘You’re thinking [it was] because of me?’ And she said, ‘I’m sorry, honey, but yeah, maybe,'” Savannah recalled, tearing up. I hope not. I mean we still don’t know. Honestly, we don’t know anything. We don’t know anything. So, I don’t know if it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that girl, that lady has money, we can make a quick buck.’ That would make sense, but we don’t know.”
She added that “it’s too much to think that I brought this to her bedside” as she and Kotb were both devastated. “That’s because of me. I have to say I’m so sorry, Mom. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry to my sister and my brother and my children and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law,” Savannah continued. “I’m very sorry, I’m very sorry, if it’s me, I’m very sorry, I’m very sorry.”
A clip of Savannah’s emotional interview previously aired on Wednesday, March 25, broadcast of Today.
“Someone needs to do the right thing. We’re in pain. … It’s unbearable,” a TV reporter told his former coach. “And to think about what he went through. I wake up every night in the middle of the night. Every night. And in the dark, I think of his fear. And it’s unimaginable. He needs to come home now.”
Nancy was reported missing from her home in Arizona in early February. A month later, police are still investigating Nancy’s whereabouts.
After Thursday’s interview, Kotb, 61, praised Savannah’s eloquence as she sat down emotionally.
“There’s a desperation and a bravery about Savannah. You hope that someone, whoever this person is, will see something and say something,” Kotb said. “As you will see in the coming days, he talks about many things, he talks about the investigation, he talks about his faith and he also talks about how he went through it.”
Savannah, one of Nancy’s three children with her late husband Charles Guthriehe got out and left Today activities between his mother’s disappearance.
“I’m determined to come back,” Savannah told her co-stars during a brief return to the studio on March 5. “I don’t know how I’m going to come back, but I don’t know how to come back. You’re my family, and I’d like to try.”
A Today source, meanwhile, specified in Us on Monday, March 23, there was no “official announcement regarding Savannah’s return date” on the morning show.
Savannah Guthrie and her family have issued a new statement to the people of Tucson, Arizona, amid the continued disappearance of their matriarch Nancy Guthrie, explaining that they cannot “grieve” until she is brought home. “We are so grateful for the outpouring of neighbors, friends and the people of Tucson. We are all family now,” […]
As Savannah clings to the hope of her mother’s safe return, she and her siblings, Annie and Camron, offer a reward for any additional information.
“We are so grateful for the outpouring of neighbors, friends and the people of Tucson. We are all family now,” they said in a statement. Saturday, March 21. “We continue to believe that Tucsonians, and the greater community of Southern Arizona, hold the key to finding a solution to this case. Someone knows.”
They concluded, “We can’t be sad; we just grieve and wonder. Our only focus is on finding him and bringing him home. We want to celebrate his good life and courage but we won’t do that until he is brought to his final resting place.”
