NBC's Today anchor Savannah Guthrie has spoken publicly for the first time since her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared from her Arizona home nearly two months ago.
In an emotional interview with her close friend and former co-host Hoda Kotb, Guthrie fought back tears as she struggled with the thought that her fame might have put her mother at risk.
She suggested a possible reason someone might have targeted her mother: 'I don't know that it's because she's my mom and somebody thought, 'That girl has money, we could make a quick buck.' That would make sense.'
Guthrie believes most of the later ransom notes were fake but thinks the two her family actually responded to were real.
She criticized anyone sending fake ransom notes to a grieving family, saying 'A person that would send a fake ransom note … really has to look deeply at themselves … to a family in pain.'
Nearly two months after Nancy's disappearance, her family is still waiting for answers.
