Megyn Kelly is complaining that the family of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie is not performing public prayer vigils.
Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for nearly a month. Kelly attacked Savannah on Thursday’s episode of The Megyn Kelly Show for not participating in searches, hosting prayer vigils, or speaking to the public as often as Kelly would like.
The former Fox News host was joined by podcaster Zack Peter, and the duo criticized Nancy’s family as the Guthries continue to plead for her safe return.
“We have seen so little of the Guthries,” Kelly said on the SiriusXM show. “We haven’t even seen them out. You know, joining in a search or like helping with the grid, you know pattern where they walk the grounds.”
“Prayer vigil,” Peter, 32, added.
“I mean prayer vigil, or like even an everyday update,” 55-year-old Kelly agreed.
The FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Office are investigating Nancy’s disappearance from her Tucson, Arizona home as a kidnapping.
Savannah, 54, and her two siblings have been in Tucson since their mother’s disappearance and have pleaded with the public for help finding their mother.
“It’s just like every once in a while they drop like a 30-second video being like, ‘If you have our mom, please return her.’ It is a little odd,” Kelly continued.
The Guthrie children have released multiple videos pleading for their mother’s safe return, despite Kelly’s assessment that “we have seen so little of the Guthries.”
Savannah has publicly spoken about her strong Christian faith for years.
In 2024, she authored the book Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere, which is described as a “deeply personal collection” that is “designed to engage the practical ways that God loves you.”
In the aftermath of Nancy’s disappearance, insiders report that it is likely Savannah will not return to Today, which she has hosted since 2012. “There’s no way Savannah’s coming back,” one network executive told Status this week, adding, “I can’t imagine she would even want to.”
Even so, Peter asserted that Savannah and her siblings’ behavior was questionable.
“Not even they, it’s just Savannah at this point. The rest of the family has dipped out,” he said. “It’s just Savannah and she gives us like a quick, a strange quick update.”
“Savannah’s like pleading with them and saying like you know, ‘Please bring our mother back. We believe in the goodness of humanity,’” Peter continued.
“And I’m just like, this is a man that you guys believe has kept this elderly woman somewhere for two—for over two weeks now. And we think suddenly he’s gonna have some compassion and be like, oh yeah, let me just drop her off at a local gas station. Like I just, it doesn’t make sense to me,” Peter said.
Kelly agreed, responding: “It doesn’t make sense to me either.”
Kelly has been ripped for dabbling in conspiracy theories about Guthrie’s disappearance, as she previously asserted on her show that Savannah’s brother-in-law was the one who kidnapped Nancy.
On Monday, Sheriff Chris Nanos announced that all of Guthrie’s family had been cleared in the investigation. Nanos said the Guthrie family has been “nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.”
Nanos also gave a pointed statement to the media, begging, “honor your profession and report with some sense of compassion and professionalism,” and that it was “cruel” to post unverified information.
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has railed against Kelly on his NewsNation show for spreading unfounded rumors about the case. He referred to her and other online personalities engaging in conspiracies as “sloppy influencers and would-be sleuths” who are just looking for “clicks and ragebait” as they cover the Guthrie case.
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