Savannah Guthrie<\/a> broke down as she reflected on whether her \u201cToday<\/a>\u201d show fame is to blame for the kidnapping<\/a> of her mother, Nancy Guthrie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The \u201cToday\u201d show anchor \u2014 in an emotional interview<\/a> with Hoda Kotb<\/a> \u2014 credited her \u201cbrilliant\u201d brother, Camron Guthrie, and his military background for \u201cvery clearly\u201d eyeing what may have sparked her mother\u2019s disappearance from her Arizona home on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cHe said [on the phone], \u2018I think she\u2019s been kidnapped for ransom,\u2019 and I said, \u2018What? Well, why? What?\u2019\u201d recalled Savannah Guthrie, who noted that the family initially believed the 84-year-old had a medical episode overnight due to blood splatters on the front porch and a doorbell camera that was \u201cyanked off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt sounds so, like, how dumb could I be \u2014 but I just, I didn\u2019t want to believe \u2014 I just said, \u2018Do you think \u2014 because of me?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Guthrie wiped away tears before wondering if someone knew that her mother lived at the residence and thought they could \u201cmake a quick buck\u201d from her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThat would make sense \u2026 which is too much to bear. To think that I brought this to her bedside, that it\u2019s because of me?\u201d said Guthrie as she began to sob.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cAnd I just say, I\u2019m so sorry, Mommy. I\u2019m so sorry. I\u2019m sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law. Just \u2014 I\u2019m like, so sorry. I\u2019m so sorry. If it is me, I\u2019m so sorry. I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Moments after the \u201cToday\u201d show aired the interview on Thursday, anchor Craig Melvin reflected on his \u201cdear friend\u201d blaming herself for her mother\u2019s kidnapping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThat was the hardest part,\u201d Hotb replied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201c[That she] would blame herself for any of this when it was some sicko or sickos out there who would kidnap a woman in the middle of the night,\u201d Melvin continued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Charles Sykes\/Invision\/Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Guthrie\u2019s comments arrived in her first on-camera interview<\/a> following her mother\u2019s kidnapping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The anchor has been on leave from the \u201cToday\u201d show in the weeks since. A source close to the program told celebrity.land<\/a> that she\u2019s expected to return to the NBC morning staple next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Authorities have continued to investigate the 84-year-old\u2019s disappearance as a kidnapping and released video footage<\/a> last month showing a masked person approaching her front door before she went missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not giving up,\u201d Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Tucson, Arizona\u2019s CBS affiliate KOLD-TV earlier this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Guthrie family has offered a $1 million reward<\/a> for information that leads to the 84-year-old\u2019s recovery. The FBI<\/a>, too, has offered up to $50,000<\/a> for information that leads to her recovery and\/or the arrest and conviction of anyone tied to her disappearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Watch more of Savannah Guthrie\u2019s emotional interview with Kotb in these<\/a> clips<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Savannah Guthrie broke down as she reflected on whether her \u201cToday\u201d show fame is to blame for the kidnapping of her mother, Nancy Guthrie. 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