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Savannah Guthrie is reportedly “nervous” for her return to the “Today” show after having been absent from the morning segment for two months as the search for her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, continues.
After detailing to Hoda Kotb the heartache she has endured since her 84-year-old mom was abducted from her Tucson, AZ, home on Feb. 1, Savannah is set to make her return to the NBC studios on April 6.
According to NewsNation, Savannah, 54, has been “living in hell” and is returning to the show to help distract herself.
And while she is looking forward to reuniting with her “Today” family, the TV personality is also weary of the attention.
“She has to have something to keep her mind off the living hell she is in, and her colleagues at ‘Today’ are like her family as well. It’s such an emotional roller coaster right now, and she knows all eyes—including whoever kidnapped her mother—are on her,” an insider told NewsNation.
Savannah reportedly fears breaking down during her first day back at the hosting desk.
The news of her worries comes days after a source close to the ongoing investigation claimed that Savannah’s missing mother’s Arizona home showed “no signs of an assault” in the wake of her disappearance—alleging that some of the rooms inside the property were in “immaculate” condition after she went missing to NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin.
“This new information sort of makes sense with the big picture of what we know,” said Entin, who has been on the ground near Tucson since Nancy disappeared, adding that the insider noted the house was “very, very clean.”
It “makes sense when you go back to what Savannah said [in her interview with Kotb], which is that when her sister and brother-in-law showed up, they weren’t sure what happened. She had basically just vanished at one point. They had even thought that maybe an ambulance had taken her away,” Entin went on.
“That’s because there was, according to this source, nothing in the house that appeared out of the ordinary.”
In her recent NBC interview, Savannah recalled that the “propped open” back doors initially led the family to hope their mother had simply suffered a medical episode requiring paramedic access. That hope vanished when they found Nancy’s purse and phone still inside, discovered blood on the doorstep, and saw the doorbell camera had been “yanked off.”
“The doors were propped open, there was blood on the front doorstep… we were saying, ‘This is not OK. Something is very wrong here,’” Savannah said.
While authorities remain unsure if the perpetrator used the back entrance, recovered footage from the disconnected Nest camera showed a masked, armed man approaching the front door. Former NewsNation correspondent Ashleigh Banfield added on her podcast, “Drop Dead Serious,” that sources claim the back doors were held “wide open” specifically by Nancy’s own flower pots—a detail she described as “earth-shattering.”
Thus far, investigators have made very little headway in identifying any suspects or persons of interest in the case, which is now approaching its third month.
Nancy was first reported missing on Feb. 1 after she failed to show up at a friend’s home, where she had been due to watch a livestreamed church service.
In her first on-air interview since her mother’s disappearance, Savannah candidly revealed her fears that Nancy was targeted because of her own fame, telling Kotb that it was her brother, Cameron, who first suggested their mom had been taken by someone who wanted to hold her for ransom.
“Even on the phone when I called him, he knew,” she said. “He said, ‘I think she’s been kidnapped for ransom.’ And I said, ‘What? Well, why? What?’
“It sounds so, like, how dumb could I be? But I just—I didn’t want to believe. I just said, ‘Do you think because of me?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry, sweetie, but yeah, maybe.’ But I knew that.”
Breaking down in tears, Savannah issued a heartbreaking apology to her mother for any part her career may have played in her abduction.
“I’d just say, ‘I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry.’ I’m sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law,” she said.
“If it is me, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.”
What is the full timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance?
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos noted during a media briefing on Feb. 5 that, while times are approximate, his team has pieced together several pieces of evidence that indicate Nancy’s movements—and the timeline of her apparent abduction.
Nancy was reported missing at around 12 p.m. local time on Feb. 1, around 14 hours after she was dropped off at the property following a family dinner. When she failed to turn up at her usual church gathering on Sunday, her friends alerted her family, who found her home was empty.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31
5:32 p.m. Nancy travels to Annie’s house in an Uber for “dinner and playing games with the family.”
9:48 p.m. A garage door at Nancy’s house opens when she was dropped off at the property by her daughter.
9:50 p.m. The garage door closes, indicating that Nancy was inside the home.
SUNDAY, FEB. 1
1:47 a.m. Nancy’s doorbell security camera is disconnected.
2:12 a.m. Movement is detected on a security camera at the home. No footage of this is currently available.
2:28 a.m. Nancy’s pacemaker app indicates that the device has been disconnected from her phone.
11:00 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at the home of a friend, where she had been due to watch a church service livestream.
11:56 a.m. Nancy’s family travels to her home to check on her and finds the property empty.
12:03 p.m. The family calls 911 to report Nancy missing.
