Sara Haines has offered her support to her erstwhile workfellow Savannah Guthrie arsenic nan hunt for nan “Today” show star’s missing mom, Nancy, continues.
“The View” co-host exclusively said pinch Page Six astir Savannah’s heartbreaking business astatine Anne Klein’s Women Who Do Awards luncheon astatine nan Rainbow Room Wednesday.
“I person a batch of friends astatine nan ‘Today’ show,” Haines — who starred arsenic nan NBC show’s fourth-hour contributing analogous from 2009 to 2013 — said.
“So from nan infinitesimal it happened, I’ve been successful touch pinch them and mainly, not for a response, but conscionable saying, I’m sending my love, I’m sending my prayers.”
Haines said that she has been trying to utilize societal media to dispersed awareness.
“I’m praying, I’m hoping, I’m trying to enactment abreast of everything happening,” she said.
While Haines, 48, and Savannah, 54, nary longer activity astatine nan aforesaid network, she still feels very adjacent to her.
“I’m astatine ABC now, but having grown up astatine NBC and been there, overlapped pinch Savannah, it profoundly feels for illustration family still,” she said. “And to cognize that that is happening to her, feels truthful individual to truthful galore of america that cognize her [and] that cognize nan group astir her.”
Haines is hoping that Savannah and her loves ones will soon find “some peace” and get nan answers they need.
“I want it solved, I want them to fig thing out,” Haines said. “My bosom breaks and I person nary words for really difficult this is to watch.”
As for whether Haines and her ABC colleagues are emotion immoderate heightened fears for their safety aft Nancy’s kidnapping, she told us, “Any concerns I person are not new.”
“For anyone reasoning astir their spot successful nan world, it’s ever a concern,” Haines said. “I deliberation pinch Savannah Guthrie, we’re still excessively successful it to measure it.”
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“Having worked pinch Savannah, I can’t get past her portion and her mom’s portion to moreover deliberation astir my life, myself [and] really it affects nan greater world,” Haines continued, adding, “I’m truthful single-focused connected being brought to my knees successful symptom from a region watching this.”
Savannah — who joined nan “Today” show arsenic a co-anchor successful 2012 — has been absent from nan show since her mom was dragged from her Tucson-area location against her will connected Feb. 1.
Nancy, 84, was past seen alive connected Jan. 31. She was reported missing nan adjacent day, prompting an investigation by nan Pima County Sheriff’s Department
Savannah received an alleged ransom statement demanding $6 cardinal successful bitcoin successful speech for Nancy’s release. While Savannah has stated that she will salary nan ransom, she asked nan purported kidnapper to show a impervious of life — to nary avail.
Amid nan hopeless hunt for nan Guthrie family matriarch, constabulary obtained frightening information footage showing a masked and equipped individual extracurricular Nancy’s location connected nan nighttime she disappeared.
While they person followed respective leads, rule enforcement has yet to find nan personality of nan suspect.
Last week, Savannah visited her “Today” show family astatine Studio 1A. While immoderate sources claimed past period that nan anchor will ne'er return to her spot connected nan show, Page Six confirmed location is still a anticipation she will travel back.