Savannah Guthrie experienced a divine moment with God early on in the desperate search for her missing mom, Nancy Guthrie.
“My faith is strong and resolute, but I – early on, felt that I heard for one of the very few times in my life – I heard God speak to me as I said to myself, ‘I can handle anything, God, I can handle anything. I just can’t handle not knowing. We can’t handle not knowing. I have to know,’” she told Hoda Kotb during her emotional “Today” show interview Thursday morning.
“And I heard a voice, and it said, ‘You do know where she is. She’s with Me. She’s with Me,’” Savannah, 54, continued. “So whether she’s on this Earth still or whether she’s in Heaven, I know where she is. I know who she’s with, but we need to know.”
Savannah’s “Today” show sitdown with Kotb, 61, marked her first interview since her 84-year-old mom was reported missing from her Arizona home on Feb. 1.
She revealed how she first learned of her mom’s disappearance and shared chilling new clues connected to Nancy’s suspected kidnapping more than 50 days ago.
“My sister called me, and I said, ‘Is everything OK?’ And she said, ‘No. She said, ‘Mom’s missing,’” Savannah recalled. “And I said, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ She said, ‘She’s gone.’”
Savannah continued, “We 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, and that didn’t make any sense.”
Elsewhere during the heartbreaking interview, the grieving journalist repeated that the back doors of Nancy’s Tucson home were “propped open, there was blood on the front doorstep and the Ring camera had been yanked off.”
“So we were saying, ‘This is not OK,’” she told her “Today” colleague before imagining how her beloved mom was likely taken “in the dead of night in her pajamas, with no shoes, without her medicine.”
As for the countless ransom notes she and her siblings received linked to Nancy’s disappearance, Savannah said that she believes only two of them were legitimate.
“There are a lot of different notes that came, and I think most of them, is my understanding, are not real,” she explained. “I didn’t see them, but you know, a person that would send a fake ransom note really has to look deeply at themselves.”
She added, “But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.”
After addressing the “cruel” and “unbearable” speculation that her family was involved in Nancy’s suspected kidnapping, Savannah revealed how her two children have handled their grandma’s disappearance.
Savannah also sobbed over the possibility that she was at fault for Nancy’s disappearance.
“That it’s because of me and I just want to say, I’m so sorry, mommy,” she said through tears. “I’m so sorry. I’m sorry to my sister [Annie Guthrie] and my brother [Cameron Guthrie], and my kids and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law, I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry if it’s me, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.”
The longtime “Today” host once again pleaded for her mom’s return toward the end of her emotional sitdown with Kotb.
“Someone needs to do the right thing,” she cried. “We are in agony.”
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