Savannah Guthrie revealed the heartbreaking questions her two kids, Vale and Charles, have asked her since their grandmother Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped.
“That’s so hard with kids, you know? Because you want to protect them,” she shared with her “Today” show colleague Hoda Kotb in an interview Thursday.
“They write me all the time, ‘Mama, any leads? Have you heard anything? Any hope?’” Savannah said of her son, 9, and daughter, 11, whom she shares with husband Michael Feldman.
“And I think that we tried to talk to them and give them a little more certainty than we have — to let them grieve.”
In the interview, Savannah, 54, also talked about feeling that her fame may have caused her mom’s kidnapping.
The journalist said her brother, Camron Guthrie, first informed her that Nancy, 84, could have been “kidnapped for ransom.”
“Like, how dumb could I be? I didn’t want to believe it but do you think because of me?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry, sweetie, but yeah, maybe,’” she shared.
“But I knew that — I hope not, we still don’t know. We don’t know anything, so I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that lady has money, we can make a quick buck,’ that would make sense but we don’t know.”
Savannah said the thought of it being her fault was “too much to bear.”
This story is being updated….
