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“I’m So Sorry Mommy” Savannah Guthrie Blames Herself For Missing Mom In Heartbreaking Interview

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Society & Culture

3.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie sat down with Hoda Kotb for her first interview since her 84-year-old mom Nancy went missing 54 days ago. Savannah talked about the disbelief and chaos in the first few days after Nancy disappeared, and the almost immediate conclusion she and her siblings came to: that Nancy was likely kidnapped for ransom. Savannah goes on to say she believes the two ransom notes she and her siblings responded to in videos were legitimate. She also says she believes that her fame, and the knowledge of her high income, probably enticed the kidnapper to take her mom in the middle of the night.

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Hey there, folks, it is Thursday, March 26, and we have for the first time heard from

0:41.6

Savannah Guthrie in a sit-down interview, and she told us a lot. We didn't know about the

0:49.1

disappearance of her mother. Yes, the case itself, but my goodness, she broke our hearts in explaining what she

0:57.8

and her siblings have been going through the past couple of months now with that. Welcome to

1:01.7

this episode of Amy and TJ. I paused their robes. I'm going back the timing. It's almost two

1:08.0

months. It's almost a full two months since Nancy Guthrie went missing.

1:12.5

It was February 1st. February 1st. And to hear Savannah talk about how she first learned

1:20.8

to the news getting a phone call from her sister, she knew something immediately was wrong.

1:24.3

And she was on a plane just even a few hours after that phone call,

1:35.3

but just the chaos, the confusion, the disbelief. She put you in that mode, like, can you imagine getting that phone call, racing home? And all of the first initial thoughts that they believed,

1:42.8

okay, maybe she had a medical emergency. Maybe she had to

1:45.8

leave and head out to a hospital. She said the back doors were open. But then when they started

1:50.4

looking, they saw signs and it clearly pointed to something else. So you all and the country has been,

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