What Happened to Savannah Guthrie on Today Amid Nancy Case?

Savannah Guthrie may be putting on a brave face, but she’s still heartbroken over her mother Nancy‘s alleged kidnapping.

A source told Page Six in May 2026 that the Today co-anchor has been breaking down off-camera at the show. “She’s gotten emotional between commercial break,” they said, noting that Guthrie’s quickly able to regain her composure and pull herself together before the Today show comes back on air.

“Sometimes a fan will say something sweet to her, whether that is a guest or a sign from a fan outside that makes her feel touched,” the insider explained, adding that Guthrie’s emotional state is “to be expected” given the devastating circumstances.

“It’s never going to be ‘business as usual’ for her,” the source continued, “but it’s important to her to put one foot in front of the other and keep going.”

Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother Nancy was reportedly taken from her Arizona home on Feb. 1, 2026. Investigators have yet to publicly identify a suspect or motive, but forensic nurse Dr. Ann Burgess suggested it all leads back to the broadcast journalist.

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In the TV special NewsNation Presents: The Nancy Guthrie Mystery, which aired on May 6 on The CW, host Brian Entin asked Dr. Burgess about the potential motive, and she explained, “Well, the motive—first you want to always ask who’s suffering the most of this, who is hurt the most?”

“And in this case, it doesn’t have to be the mother. It could be somebody in the family. Somebody— Savannah,” she said.

Dr. Burgess argued that the suspect might’ve wanted to see Guthrie “suffer,” and criminologist Dr. Casey Jordan added that Guthrie’s completely “haunted by that” scenario.

Clinical psychologist Dr. Gary Brucato claimed the perpetrator might’ve even targeted Nancy so they could be always associated with Guthrie.

“What happens when you target a celebrity or somebody tied to them is that forever, you look in the encyclopedia, you know, you look up the well-known person, the name of the offender targeted at them is attached in eternity, in perpetuity,” Brucato said on the program. “You can’t look up Abraham Lincoln without seeing John Wilkes Booth.”

He continued, “And so, you get this parasite quality that also can happen with some of these people. And I wonder also about that, that if attention seeking and resentment of somebody’s notoriety is not embedded somehow in the story.”

Guthrie previously admitted that she wondered if she’s to blame for Nancy’s disappearance.

“I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that girl—that lady has money, we can make a quick buck,’” she told Hoda Kotb in an March 2026 interview. “I mean, that would make sense, but we don’t know. But yeah, that’s probably … which is too much to bear. To think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me? And I just say I’m so sorry, mommy. I’m so sorry.”

She continued, “I’m sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law. I’m just so sorry. I’m so sorry. If it is me, I’m so sorry.”