{"id":202191,"date":"2025-10-30T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/savannah-guthrie-opens-up-about-traumatic-divorce-it-broke-my-heart-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:00:23","slug":"savannah-guthrie-opens-up-about-traumatic-divorce-it-broke-my-heart-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/savannah-guthrie-opens-up-about-traumatic-divorce-it-broke-my-heart-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie Opens Up About Traumatic Divorce: &#8216;It Broke My Heart&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Every morning on the <em>Today<\/em> show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/05\/savannah-guthrie-drew-barrymore-tattoos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Savannah Guthrie<\/a> greets viewers with a smile and an upbeat attitude to help them start their day.<\/p>\n<p>But off camera, the beloved journalist and TV personality has dealt with more than her share of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/05\/sheinelle-jones-husband-uche-ojeh-dead-at-45-tearful-savannah-guthrie-shares-tragic-news-on-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal anguish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent appearance on Monica Lewinksy\u2019s \u201cReclaiming\u201d podcast, Guthrie opened up about a particularly painful chapter from her past.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Savannah Guthrie attends TODAY Show Radio Town Hall on SiriusXM at SiriusXM Studios on February 03, 2025 in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-529078 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2197630512-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Savannah Guthrie attends TODAY Show Radio Town Hall on SiriusXM at SiriusXM Studios on February 03, 2025 in New York City.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Slaven Vlasic\/Getty Images for SiriusXM)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-savannah-guthrie-says-divorce-was-horrible-required-years-of-recovery\">Savannah Guthrie says divorce was \u2018horrible,\u2019 required years of recovery<\/h2>\n<p>In 2009, Guthrie ended her three-year marriage to Mark Orchard. She rarely speaks about the ordeal publicly, and today, she revealed why that is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was horrible and sad and it broke my heart and it took me years to recover,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/01\/entertainment\/savannah-guthrie-makes-rare-comments-about-divorce-from-mark-orchard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guthrie said<\/a> when asked why she\u2019s usually tight-lipped on the topic of her divorce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m not blaming anyone, but I don\u2019t really want to get into it, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie scarcely made mention of her divorce in the religious memoir she published last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Savannah Guthrie attends the Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Gala at Spring Studios on October 10, 2024 in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-529079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Savannah Guthrie attends the Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Gala at Spring Studios on October 10, 2024 in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-529079 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177861700-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Savannah Guthrie attends the Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Gala at Spring Studios on October 10, 2024 in New York City.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the one thing I didn\u2019t want to talk about,\u201d she said of that decision, adding that while she wanted her audience to know she \u201cexperienced adversity,\u201d she didn\u2019t want to tell them \u201cthe depths of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of it was just too personal and too embarrassing. Which I basically said,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-savannah-s-happily-ever-after\">Savannah\u2019s happily ever after<\/h2>\n<p>These days, Guthrie is happily married to Michael Feldman, her husband of 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI met him very soon after getting separated and divorced so I was like, \u2018Here\u2019s what\u2019s never going to happen.\u2019 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,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Feldman and journalist Savannah Guthrie attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend Pre-Party hosted by The New Yorker's David Remnick at the W Hotel Washington DC on May 2, 2014 in Washington, DC. \" class=\"wp-image-529077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-960x639.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-1080x719.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Feldman and journalist Savannah Guthrie attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend Pre-Party hosted by The New Yorker's David Remnick at the W Hotel Washington DC on May 2, 2014 in Washington, DC. \" class=\"wp-image-529077 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-960x639.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-1080x719.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-487886477-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael Feldman and journalist Savannah Guthrie attend the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner Weekend Pre-Party hosted by The New Yorker\u2019s David Remnick at the W Hotel Washington DC on May 2, 2014 in Washington, DC. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for The New Yorker)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d Guthrie recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I know is that I\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, Guthrie opened up about meeting Feldman and having children later in life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was 36, I got divorced. I wasn\u2019t married long. That was a huge disappointment. I was pretty sure that I had lost my opportunity and more or less ruined my life,\u201d she told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/savannah-guthrie-talks-today-legacy-motherhood-and-hoda-kotbs-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Us Weekly<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Feldman and Savannah Guthrie attend the &quot;Fed Up&quot; premiere at Museum of Modern Art on May 6, 2014 in New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-529101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-639x960.jpg 639w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-719x1080.jpg 719w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-798x1200.jpg 798w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-scaled.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Feldman and Savannah Guthrie attend the &quot;Fed Up&quot; premiere at Museum of Modern Art on May 6, 2014 in New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-529101 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-639x960.jpg 639w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-719x1080.jpg 719w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-798x1200.jpg 798w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-scaled.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-488486519-scaled.jpg\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael Feldman and Savannah Guthrie attend the \u201cFed Up\u201d premiere at Museum of Modern Art on May 6, 2014 in New York City. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Rommel Demano\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAll I ever really wanted was to fall in love, be a mom and have a family. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s acceptable to admit these days, but that\u2019s kind of how I was. I wanted to do something important and meaningful, but I really wanted a family,\u201d Guthrie went on.<\/p>\n<p>These days, of course, Savannah is living the life she dreamed of.<\/p>\n<p>She and Feldman are parents to two children, and by all accounts, they\u2019re ecstatic in the life they\u2019ve built together.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah is living proof that happy endings are possible at any time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/10\/savannah-guthrie-opens-up-about-traumatic-divorce-it-broke-my-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes Every morning on the Today show, Savannah Guthrie greets viewers with a smile and an upbeat attitude to help them start their day. But off camera, the beloved journalist and TV personality has dealt with more than her share of personal anguish. During a recent appearance on Monica Lewinksy\u2019s \u201cReclaiming\u201d podcast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}