During a segment on the fourth hour of “Today” on June 8, 2026, anchor Savannah Guthrie, 54, broke down in tears while discussing her mother’s disappearance from a Tucson, Arizona, home four months earlier, telling co-host Jenna Bush Hager that the trauma follows her constantly.

“It’s always with me,” Guthrie said during the episode of “Today with Jenna and Sheinelle.” The tearful exchange represented her most public and vulnerable moment since Nancy Guthrie, 84, vanished from a Tucson, Arizona, residence on January 31, 2026.

The Night Nancy Guthrie Vanished

Nancy Guthrie was last seen by family members at her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson at approximately 9:30 p.m. on January 31, 2026, according to Pima County Sheriff’s Department. A concerned friend contacted relatives the following morning when she did not show up for a scheduled church service. Her children — Savannah, Annie Guthrie and Camron Guthrie — spent about an hour searching the property before contacting authorities around noon on February 1 to report her missing.

When investigators arrived, they discovered troubling conditions at the scene. On February 2, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos announced that homicide detectives had been dispatched and the home was being treated as a crime scene. “We believe now, after we processed that crime scene, that we do, in fact have a crime scene,” Nanos said at the time, urging community members to come forward with information.

Nanos emphasized that Nancy Guthrie could not walk 50 yards by herself and depended on daily medication that could prove fatal if missed for 24 hours. She was apparently taken without her phone or her prescriptions. The FBI is offering a reward of $50,000, and a private reward has pushed the total to as much as $1 million for information leading to her recovery.

A Best Friend, a Broken Heart

Bush Hager, who opened the segment by telling Guthrie she had marveled at her strength in returning to Studio 1A, heard her friend describe the emotional toll of maintaining a public presence while privately grieving. Guthrie, who returned to the morning show on April 6, said she had previously declined invitations to guest co-host the fourth hour because the format required a level of honesty she wasn’t prepared to give.

“I cry every morning on the way to work, and I cry every morning on the way home,” Guthrie said, describing the bookends of each day on air. She called Bush Hager her best friend and struggled to maintain eye contact without breaking down during the conversation, which aired on National Best Friends Day.

The two hours she spends broadcasting each morning offer what she described as a little respite. She explained that she has been attempting to hold sadness and joy at the same time, a concept she said she has been teaching her two children with husband Michael Feldman — Vale, 11, and Charles, nine. She added that returning to work was something her mother would have insisted upon. She said her mother would have told her to just keep going.

Faith, Prayer and a Public Plea

Guthrie told Bush Hager that scripture has sustained her through the ordeal, particularly a line from an old book of sermons — “you’ll walk and not grow faint” — that has guided her daily routine. Walking without growing faint, she said, feels like a gift from God in a season when little else feels possible.

She used the platform to renew her appeal for assistance from the public. “We still need everybody’s prayers,” she said. “I wish someone would call and say what they know and tell the truth.” On June 7, Guthrie posted a statement from the family to Instagram, asking residents of Tucson and the broader Arizona community to review their own photos and any information that might be relevant to the investigation, which remains open.

Bush Hager promised her co-host the show would never let her carry the burden alone. “We’ll have your back. We’ll be with you forever with this,” she said. Guthrie responded by explaining what the morning broadcast has provided during months of unrelenting fear. The job, she said, gives her two hours where the world narrows to the studio lights, her colleagues and the work, even as her mother’s case sits in the back of her mind.

She acknowledged that some viewers may question how she is able to anchor a national broadcast while her mother is missing. By her own description, she is trying to walk and not grow faint — one morning, and one broadcast, at a time. She has not forgotten. She is not pretending.