The View voiced their support to TODAY‘s Savannah Guthrie, whose mother, Nancy Guthrie, is still missing after nearly two months.
Savannah sat down with Hoda Kotb for an emotional interview, the first part of which aired on TODAY on Thursday, in which she expressed that she felt like could be to blame for her mother’s disappearance.
“I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that girl — that lady has money and we could make a quick buck.’ I mean, that would make sense, but I don’t know,” she told Kotb. “But, yeah, that’s probably — it’s just too much to bear. To think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me.”
Whoopi Goldberg described the sit-down as “one of the hardest interviews [she thinks she’s] ever seen,” noting that “we have to be vigilant” in keeping this story alive, as it is “still ongoing.” Sara Haines, who said she previously worked with Savannah at NBC and wrote to her “right away” after the news broke, opened up about the TODAY anchor.
“What just kills me is you see a little girl whenever you see her face, and every pain and emotion is something that’s so relatable,” she explained. “But I hope she knows that her mom would never, ever want her to think any of those thoughts. I can almost hear a mom saying, ‘Please, don’t do that.’ That’s the one thing that could break her. It would break her mom’s heart to know how much pain she’s going through, so I hope she can find a little strength through that.”
Guest co-host Abby Huntsman added, “It makes you want to go hug your mom… You just don’t know in a split second if your life’s going to completely change. If you know Savannah—like you, Sara, I got to know her at MSNBC, as well—she never wants the story to be about her. That’s not her brand. And so she’s handled this with such grace and such realness.”
Sunny Hostin, who said she doesn’t have “much confidence” in FBI Director Kash Patel but does have “a lot of confidence” in the other FBI agents working on it, sympathized with Savannah, adding that she also knows Savannah and has “reached out” to her.
“The worst thing is that she feels somehow responsible. It is not her fault,” she shared. “But I can understand why she feels that way because when you become a public figure, you do start to think about your family and how you can protect them.”
Hostin revealed that her mother was in The View‘s studio audience on Thursday, and that the tragic case has hit close to home for her and her mother, as she said they “talk about Nancy Guthrie all the time.”
“It’s like there for the grace of God, go I,” she said.
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.