Savannah Guthrie admits in a new interview that the demise of her first marriage “broke” her heart.
“It was horrible and sad and it broke my heart,” the “Today” show co-anchor, 53, said on the “Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky” podcast Tuesday.
Guthrie was married to former BBC journalist Mark Orchard — whom she met while covering the Michael Jackson trial — from 2005 to 2009. The former couple share no children together.
The news anchor added on Monica Lewinsky’s podcast that it took her “years to recover” from her divorce, clarifying, “I’m not blaming anyone but I don’t really want to get into it.”
Guthrie made the candid revelation about her split from Orchard while discussing why she kept the “gory details” of their breakup out of her book “Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere.”
“It’s the one thing I didn’t want to talk about,” she confessed, stating that she wanted readers to know she had “experienced adversity” but didn’t want to open up “about the depths of that.”
The journalist said she found opening up about her divorce “too personal” and “too embarrassing.”
Surprisingly, Guthrie said she didn’t get any “pushback” from her publishers about her decision to establish strict boundaries as to what she wanted to write about.
Lewinsky, 51, responded, “It was such a revelation and, I think, also so important as a woman, you know, that there’s this sense of … this idea of public-private, that you’re allowed to have a boundary.”
Despite the heartbreak she experienced, however, the news anchor eventually found her happy ending.
She married former political advisor Michael Feldman in 2014 and they share two kids: daughter Vale, 10, and son Charley, 8. They celebrated their 10-year wedding anniversary in May 2024.
Guthrie captioned a post on Instagram at the time, “I love you now and forever @feldmike.”
