Savannah Guthrie's family had to move "many times" after "cruel" speculation on mother's kidnapping

“I’m glad that people saw what came to our door,” says Guthrie of the decision to release security footage from the night her mother, Nancy, was kidnapped. She describes the speculation that someone in her family had something to do with the disappearance as “unbearable,” saying, “it piles pain upon pain.” Guthrie continues, “We had to move houses many times because people came and not everyone is respectful, unfortunately. There was a night we had to leave in the dark, in the desert, holding hands. Me and my sister and brother… get into a car waiting for us [because] the people outside were closing in. So we found a place that was safe and then we couldn’t really leave too much. So those days are a blur. Crying, and praying.” 

Elsewhere in the interview, Guthrie details feeling like her celebrity and wealth are to blame for her mother’s kidnapping and struggling to process those emotions. She describes a phone call with her brother, who has a military background and was the first in the family to recognize the situation as a kidnapping. “When I called him, he knew. And he said, ‘I think she’s been kidnapped for ransom,'” recalls a visibly emotional Guthrie. “I just said, ‘Do you think, because of me?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry sweetie, but yeah, maybe.’ But I knew that.” While Guthrie does clarify that they don’t have enough information yet to attribute a concrete motivation, she adds, “[It’s] 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.” The whole segment is linked below.