Savannah Guthrie’s sister, Annie Guthrie, gave her the shocking news that her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was missing.
In the first half of an emotional interview with Today colleague Hoda Kotb that aired Thursday, the 54-year-old described the moment her nightmare began.
“My sister called me and said, ‘Are you okay?’ And she said, ‘No. She said, “My mother is missing,” the journalist explained heartbreakingly. “So I said, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ She said, ‘He’s gone.'”
Both brothers said they were “panicking” and Savannah said: “We thought she must have had some sort of medical emergency during the night and the back door was swinging open so we thought the paramedics had somehow gotten there, but that didn’t make sense.”
“I thought maybe they came and they took her from behind because there was a stretcher,” Savannah continued. “But her phone, wallet and all her belongings were there.”
She went on to talk about the “confusion and distrust” she experienced during calls with hospitals and police officers.
Savannah’s conversation with Kotb, 61, was her first interview since Nancy, 84, went missing more than seven weeks ago.
“Someone has to do the right thing. We are suffering,” Savannah told a close friend.
Savannah also said she wakes up “every night in the middle of the night” imagining Nancy’s “horror.”
Nancy was last seen at her Tucson home on the night of January 31st and was reported missing the next day.
The investigation into Nancy’s disappearance has yielded few promising results, despite surveillance footage showing still-unidentified individuals breaking into Nancy’s home the night she went missing.
Savannah and her siblings, Annie and Camron Guthrie, have issued a petition on multiple social media sites against Nancy’s alleged abductor.
In a Feb. 24 video, Savannah admitted that her mother “may already be dead.”
“And if this is real, we will accept it, but we need to know where she is,” said the journalist. “We need her to come home.”
Nancy’s children then offered a $1 million bounty for her safe return.
“Please continue to pray constantly. We still believe. We believe in miracles,” Savannah said in a Feb. 24 social media video.
sources told Page Six exclusively. Savannah and her family say they hope the $1 million reward will encourage someone to come forward with information about the case.
“The family first raised this matter on the first day of the investigation and have been ready to do so ever since,” the insider revealed.
Savannah was off the air for the entirety of the frantic search for her mother.
But she returned to the Today studio in New York City on March 5 to reunite with her colleagues, thanking them for “caring about my mother as much as I do.”
“I wanted you to know that I’m still standing, I still have hope, and I’m still me,” Savannah told the other hosts.
“And I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be.”
