Savannah Guthrie opened up to Hoda Kotb about her perpetual “agony” over the kidnapping of her mother, Nancy, in an emotional interview that’s set to air on NBC’s “Today” this week.
“Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony. We are in agony,” Guthrie tells Kotb through tears in a clip released Wednesday of her first on-camera interview.
“It is unbearable. 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, but those thoughts demand to be thought, and I will not hide my face. But she needs to come home, now,” she says.
Her full interview with Kotb will air in segments on Thursday and Friday, Kotb said while previewing the interview on “Today.”
“As you can imagine, it was a very emotional conversation,” said Kotb, who returned to the program to fill in for Guthrie after stepping down last year.
No plans have been announced yet on when Guthrie may return to her co-anchor role with “Today,” though CNN, citing a person close to the show, reported that it could be as early as April.
Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken against her will from her Tucson, Arizona, home, in the early morning hours of Feb. 1. Video footage taken from a doorbell Ring camera outside her house captured a masked figure approaching the door at the time of her disappearance.
There have been no significant advancements with the police investigation, despite the Guthrie family offering a $1 million reward for information that leads to her recovery.
The FBI is also offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information that leads to Nancy Guthrie’s recovery and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.