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Each morning on the At the moment present, Savannah Guthrie greets viewers with a smile and an upbeat angle to assist them begin their day.
However off digicam, the beloved journalist and TV persona has handled greater than her share of non-public anguish.
Throughout a latest look on Monica Lewinksy’s “Reclaiming” podcast, Guthrie opened up a few notably painful chapter from her previous.
Savannah Guthrie attends TODAY Present Radio City Corridor on SiriusXM at SiriusXM Studios on February 03, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Pictures for SiriusXM)
Savannah Guthrie says divorce was ‘horrible,’ required years of restoration
In 2009, Guthrie ended her three-year marriage to Mark Orchard. She not often speaks concerning the ordeal publicly, and in the present day, she revealed why that’s.
“It was horrible and sad and it broke my heart and it took me years to recover,” Guthrie mentioned when requested why she’s normally tight-lipped on the subject of her divorce.
“And I’m not blaming anyone, but I don’t really want to get into it, you know.”
Guthrie scarcely made point out of her divorce within the spiritual memoir she printed final yr.
Savannah Guthrie attends the Venture Wholesome Minds World Psychological Well being Day Gala at Spring Studios on October 10, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Pictures)
“It’s the one thing I didn’t want to talk about,” she mentioned of that call, including that whereas she wished her viewers to know she “experienced adversity,” she didn’t need to inform them “the depths of that.”
“Some of it was just too personal and too embarrassing. Which I basically said,” she continued.
Savannah’s fortunately ever after
Today, Guthrie is fortunately married to Michael Feldman, her husband of 11 years.
“I met him very soon after getting separated and divorced so I was like, ‘Here’s what’s never going to happen.’ So it took a long long time, but we talked about it because of our differing faiths and because my faith is so important to me,” she defined.
Michael Feldman and journalist Savannah Guthrie attend the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner Weekend Pre-Celebration hosted by The New Yorker’s David Remnick on the W Lodge Washington DC on Could 2, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Picture by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Pictures for The New Yorker)
“We dated for five and a half years, wait for it because a lot of reasons, and we both had commitment issues for our own reasons,” Guthrie recalled.
“All I know is that I’m trying to have integrity in my faith with my children and in my family, and Mike is there with me allowing me to do that.”
In February, Guthrie opened up about assembly Feldman and having youngsters later in life.
“When I was 36, I got divorced. I wasn’t married long. That was a huge disappointment. I was pretty sure that I had lost my opportunity and more or less ruined my life,” she instructed Us Weekly.
Michael Feldman and Savannah Guthrie attend the “Fed Up” premiere at Museum of Trendy Artwork on Could 6, 2014 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Rommel Demano/Getty Pictures)
“All I ever really wanted was to fall in love, be a mom and have a family. I don’t know if it’s acceptable to admit these days, but that’s kind of how I was. I wanted to do something important and meaningful, but I really wanted a family,” Guthrie went on.
Today, in fact, Savannah resides the life she dreamed of.
She and Feldman are dad and mom to 2 youngsters, and by all accounts, they’re ecstatic within the life they’ve constructed collectively.
Savannah resides proof that completely satisfied endings are doable at any time.
