“Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie has given her first sit-down interview since her 84-year-old mom, Nancy Guthrie, was kidnapped from her Arizona home nearly two months ago, her own show revealed Wednesday.
The NBC star broke down 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,” Guthrie sobbed in a brief clip teasing the full interview.
“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 and it is unthinkable.”
“She needs to come home, now,” Guthrie added.
Nancy is believed to have been snatched from her Tucson home 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.
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.
“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.
The timeline of the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom:
“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.”
