United Kingdom, March 26 -- Savannah Guthrie has apologised to her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, because she fears her mom was kidnapped due to her own fame.

The Today host and her siblings, Annie and Camron, reported their 84-year-old mom Nancy Guthrie missing at the end of January and she is devastated to think her own high-profile was a reason for someone to take the matriarch in a bid to make a "quick buck".

In the first part of a two-part interview with Hoda Kotb being broadcast on Today this week, Savannah cried as she said: I think my brother, my siblings are so amazing, my brother, he spent his career in the military and worked in intelligence and is a fighter pilot and just brilliant and he saw very clearly right away what thi...