It’s been one month since Nancy Guthrie, the 84 year-old mother of the TODAY show host Savannah Guthrie, went missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Last week, we reported that Savannah has announced that her family is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information that leads to her mother’s return.
Yesterday, we reported that Savannah, 54, returned to the TODAY studio in New York City on Thursday, March 5 for the first time since Nancy went missing. Now, insiders are speaking out to reveal what Savannah told her colleagues upon her return.
Savannah Returns To TODAY
A source told People Magazine that Savannah hugged each individual TODAY staffer and crew member. She also thanked them for all of their love, prayers and support and for “caring about my mom as much as I do.”
“I wanted you to know that I’m still standing, and I still have hope, and I’m still me,” Savannah reportedly said. “And I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be. I’m holding onto my faith. I still believe. And as my mom would say, ‘where else would I go?’”
“I have every intention of coming back,” she added. “I don’t know how to come back, but I don’t know how not to. You’re my family. And, I would like to try.”
Savannah’s friend and on-air colleague Dylan Dreyer then led a “beautiful” group prayer for everyone. Dylan began the prayer by saying, “We’re here holding hands as a family, in a place where we don’t understand why this is happening…. It is not too bold to ask God for the biggest miracles every day.”
This comes after a TODAY spokesperson confirmed Savannah’s return to the show’s studio.
“Savannah Guthrie stopped by the studio this morning to be with and thank her TODAY colleagues,” the spokesperson told People.
The spokesperson went on to say that Savannah “plans to return to the show on air.”
No date for Savannah’s return has been announced yet. However, the spokesperson concluded by saying that “she remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home.”
Nancy Disappears
Nancy was last seen on the night of Saturday, January 31. That evening, she had gone to dinner with her daughter Annie and her son-in-law Tommaso Cioni. They brought her home at around 9:45pm that night, and she has not been seen since. It is believed that Nancy was kidnapped from her home in the early hours of February 1.
A masked intruder was captured on Nancy’s doorbell ring camera just before she was taken. He managed to cover it with some plants before moving forward with the kidnapping. It was revealed this week that the masked man had been seen in the doorbell ring camera prior to the night Nancy was taken. This indicates that he may have been casing out her home.
Find out more about that in the video below.
Savannah Offers $1 Million Reward
Last week, Savannah announced that her family is offering a $1 million reward for information that leads to the return of her mother. She did so in an emotional video posted to Instagram.
In that video, Savannah admitted that her family is aware that Nancy “may be lost, she may already be gone. She may have already gone home to the lord that she loves. But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery.”
“Somebody knows and we are begging you to please come forward now,” Savannah stated. “Tell us what you know and help us bring our beloved mom home so that we can either celebrate a glorious, miraculous homecoming or celebrate the beautiful, brave and courageous and noble life that she lived.”
Check out Savannah’s full video for yourself below.
This has clearly been an extremely tragic and horrifying situation for the entire Guthrie family. Please join us in saying a prayer for them, and for the safe return of Nancy Guthrie.