“TODAY” host Savannah Guthrie gave a heartbreaking tell-all interview this morning surrounding how she and her family are dealing with the kidnapping of her mother, Nancy.
In her first televised appearance since her mother’s disappearance, Guthrie sat down with “TODAY” alum and Savannah’s close friend, Hoda Kotb, for a two-part interview that aired on the morning show this morning and will conclude Friday.
According to Guthrie, she agreed to sit down with her own show in the hope it would spark a breakthrough in the heartbreaking case.
“It was a very emotional conversation with Savannah, but she has really one goal here, and it’s to bring Nancy home, that someone must know something,” Kotb said of their sit-down before it was aired.
“And she was really brave to sit down and do it.”
During this morning’s interview, Guthrie opened about the agony she and her siblings have been living with ever since her mother was taken from her Tucson, Ariz. home on Feb. 1.
Guthrie revealed the moment she first learned that her mother Nancy was missing.
“My sister called me and I said ‘is everything okay?’ And she said ‘no, she said ‘mom’s missing,'” Savannah Guthrie revealed in her first interview since her mother was kidnapped on Feb. 1.
“And I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ She said, ‘She’s gone.’
“And we she was in a panic and I was in a panic. I’m like, call my mom. And she’s like, I did.”
Guthrie and her family initially believed their mom suffered a “medical episode” during the night when she was first reported missing.
She said they initially thought their mom may have been taken out of her home in a stretcher by paramedics because the doors were “propped open.”
Nancy’s phone and purse were there.
“It just didn’t make any sense,” Guthrie said.
In perhaps the most devastating moment of this morning’s interview, Savannah broke down at accepting her mom was likely kidnapped because of her.
“It’s too much to bear, to think that I brought this to her bedside. But it’s because of me,” she sobbed.
“I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry. … Just. I’m like, so sorry. I’m so sorry if it is me.”
Nearly two months into a search for Nancy Guthrie’s whereabouts, no suspects have been identified.
“We cannot make peace without not knowing,” Guthrie said.
The second part of Guthrie’s will air on Friday, March 27 at an undisclosed time.