“Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie broke down about her family’s “unbearable” agony in her first sit-down interview since her 84-year-old mom, Nancy Guthrie, was snatched from home nearly two months ago.
The NBC star sobbed as she spoke to her former morning show co-anchor, Hoda Kotb, in a lengthy two-part series that is set to air in full Thursday and Friday as the search for the grandmother neared its eighth week.
“We are in agony. It is unbearable,” a visibly distraught Guthrie said in a brief clip aired on her own show Wednesday.
“And to think of what she went through, I wake up every night, in the middle of the night, every night, and in the darkness, I imagine her terror. It is unthinkable, but those thoughts demand to be thought. And I will not hide my face.”
“She needs to come home, now,” Guthrie added.
“Someone needs to do the right thing.”
Nancy is believed to have been snatched from her home in Tucson, Arizona during the early hours of Feb. 1 after chilling security footage from her doorbell camera captured a masked man loitering on her doorstep.
Since then, Guthrie has been off the air and has only spoken out publicly in a handful of social media videos where she has begged for help cracking the bizarre case.
Guthrie, who has remained in Arizona with her family amid the search, was spotted briefly returning to NBC’s studios in New York City earlier this month where she was embraced by colleagues.
Meanwhile, news of Guthrie’s sit-down came after she and her two siblings released yet another heartbreaking statement late Tuesday, saying they were still clinging to hope that someone out there had critical information.
“Someone knows something. It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant. We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11,” the statement said.
“We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom’s case – please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance.”
They added they won’t be able to grieve properly until she is found.
The timeline of the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom:
“Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home. We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life. But we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest,” they said.
Their latest plea came as embattled Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, who has faced mounting backlash over the fruitless weeks-long search, also issued a blunt message for the person or people responsible.
“Just give her up. Let her go,” he told News 4 Tucson. “Take her to a clinic, a hospital. Drop her off. Just let her go.”
