{"id":10106,"date":"2026-03-27T03:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/10106\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:32:15","slug":"8-key-takeaways-from-savannah-guthries-today-interview-on-the-disappearance-of-her-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/10106\/","title":{"rendered":"8 key takeaways from Savannah Guthrie’s ‘Today’ interview on the disappearance of her mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been nearly two months<\/a> since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today cohost Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson, Ariz., home. The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department and the FBI have not had any significant breakthroughs in locating her since she was reported missing on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

NBC\u2019s Hoda Kotb sat down with Savannah in her first interview since her mother went missing. The first two parts of the interview aired on Thursday, and the third part of the interview is scheduled to air on Friday, when Savannah\u2019s plans for returning to Today will be revealed, Kotb said.<\/p>\n

In the wide-ranging interview, Savannah told Kotb about the first moments she learned her mother was gone, about whether the ransom notes sent to the media were real and the message she said she heard from God about her mother.<\/p>\n

Here are eight of the biggest takeaways from Savannah\u2019s interview.<\/p>\n

The moment Savannah Guthrie learned her mother was missing<\/p>\n

The weekend Nancy Guthrie went missing, Savannah said her husband, Mike Feldman, had been out of town on a tennis trip, and she had taken their two kids to colleague Carson Daly\u2019s house. She said they all returned home at the same time when she got a phone call from her sister Annie.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sister called me, and I said, \u2018Is everything OK?\u2019 and she said, \u2018No.\u2019 She said, \u2018Mom\u2019s missing,\u2019 and I said, \u2018What? What are you talking about?\u2019 She said, \u2018She\u2019s gone,\u2019\u201d Savannah said through tears.<\/p>\n

The Guthrie family found the back doors of Nancy\u2019s home propped open\u00a0<\/p>\n

Savannah recalled speaking with her sister Annie. \u201cShe was in a panic. I was in a panic.\u201d She advised Annie to call 911, to which her sister replied that she had already done so and that they were already at Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought that she must have had some kind of medical episode in the night and that somehow the paramedics had come because the back doors were propped open,\u201d Savannah recalled. \u201cThat didn\u2019t make any sense. We thought maybe they came and there was a stretcher and they took her out the back, but her phone was there, and her purse was there, and all her things, and it just didn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said her sister and her brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, called local hospitals, and Savannah decided to start calling hospitals too. She said the police were at their mother\u2019s house talking to Annie at the same time she was talking to Savannah, and \u201cit was just chaos and disbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy Guthrie was physically unable to \u2018wander off\u2019 because of her bad back<\/p>\n

Within hours of learning of her mother\u2019s disappearance, Savannah rushed to Tucson to be with her family.<\/p>\n

When she first saw her sister and her brother, Camron, she said they were all in \u201cdisbelief and hugging each other.\u201d They were also on the phone with the Pima County sheriff.<\/p>\n

Savannah said that from very early on in the investigation, Annie and Annie\u2019s husband told investigators that it wasn\u2019t just a case of someone wandering off.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom, she was in tremendous pain; her back was very bad,\u201d Savannah said. \u201cOn a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail, but most days, not. So there was no \u2018wander off.\u2019 And the doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep, and the Ring camera had been yanked off,\u201d she recalled. \u201cSomething is very wrong here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Savannah agonizes that her mother was targeted because of her fame<\/p>\n

Savannah said in the interview that Camron, who spent his career in the military and worked in intelligence, immediately knew that their mother was taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe saw very clearly right away what this was, and even on the phone when I called him, he knew. He said, \u2018I think she\u2019s been kidnapped for ransom,\u2019 and I said, \u2018What?\u2019\u201d she recalled through tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just said, \u2018Do you think because of me?\u2019 and he said, \u2018Sorry sweetie, but yeah, maybe,\u2019\u201d Savannah said, adding that, deep down, she already knew that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, we still don\u2019t know, honestly. We don\u2019t know anything. I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s because she\u2019s my mom and somebody thought, \u2018That lady has money; we can make a quick buck,\u2019 I mean, that would make sense, but we don\u2019t know,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Savannah said it\u2019s \u201ctoo much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside. That it\u2019s because of me. \u2026 And I just want to say I\u2019m so sorry, Mommy, I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Savannah believes 2 of the ransom notes are \u2018real\u2019<\/p>\n

Multiple ransom notes were sent to various media outlets and the Guthrie family in the days following Nancy\u2019s disappearance, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s department and the FBI said in February that they were investigating the validity of the ransom notes but have not said publicly whether those notes were believed to have been from any person who may have abducted Guthrie.<\/p>\n

Savannah weighed in on whether she thinks they were real.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of different notes, I think, that came,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think most of them, it\u2019s my understanding, are not real. And I didn\u2019t see them \u2014 but a person that would send a fake ransom note really has to look deeply at themselves \u2014 to a family in pain. But I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Savannah addresses speculation of the Guthrie family\u2019s involvement<\/p>\n

Nancy Guthrie was last seen on the night of Jan. 31 when she took a rideshare to Annie\u2019s nearby home and was dropped back off at her home by her son-in-law, Tommaso, according to a timeline from the sheriff. In the immediate aftermath of her disappearance, intense online speculation grew that Savannah Guthrie\u2019s family members had something to do with Nancy\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

When asked by Kotb how the family has dealt with those rumors, Savannah replied, \u201cIt\u2019s unbearable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt piles pain upon pain. There are no words. I don\u2019t understand,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ll never understand, and no one took better care of my mom than my sister and brother-in-law, and no one protected my mom more than my brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we love her, and she is our shining light,\u201d she continued tearfully. \u201cShe is our matriarch, and she\u2019s all we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Savannah and her siblings are particularly close to their mother, as their father, Charles Guthrie, died when Savannah was 16 years old.<\/p>\n

Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home was her \u2018safe haven\u2019<\/p>\n

The house in Tucson was where Savannah and her siblings grew up. \u201cThat\u2019s my mom\u2019s safe haven,\u201d Savannah said. She recalled that as a teenager, it was also where she found out from her mother and sister that her father had unexpectedly died at the age of 49.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the house where all of our memories are. Good and bad, so it\u2019s hallowed ground. My mom loved and treasured that house.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to see that violated, and the terror that she must have felt is unbearable,\u201d Savannah said tearfully.<\/p>\n

The message Savannah says she heard from God<\/p>\n

Savannah had to make the difficult choice to leave Arizona amid the investigation to return home to her family in New York. She recalled looking out the airplane window at the vast desert landscape and thinking of her mother. She thought: \u201cWhere are you?\u201d and \u201cHow could I leave you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Much like her mother, Savannah said her faith is \u201cstrong and resolute.\u201d She said that this ordeal has been one of the few times in her life that she heard God speak to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I said to myself, \u2018I can handle anything, God, I can handle anything,\u2019 I just can\u2019t handle not knowing,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I heard a voice, and it said, \u2018You do know where she is. She\u2019s with me,\u201d Savannah recalled. \u201cSo whether she\u2019s on this Earth still or whether she is in heaven, I know where she is; I know who she\u2019s with. But we need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been nearly two months since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today cohost Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7267,8,6908,45,9,7269,46,7268,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-10106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-charles-guthrie","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-hoda-kotb","11":"tag-nancy-guthrie","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-ransom-notes","14":"tag-savannah-guthrie","15":"tag-the-guthrie","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116299034952750837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}