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Savannah Guthrie Describes First Marriage as ‘Horrible and Sad’ on Monica Lewinsky Podcast

Her reflections shed light on why she withheld the ‘gory details’ of her breakup from her 2024 faith-oriented memoir

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Overview

  • On the “Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky” podcast, Guthrie called her 2005–2009 marriage to Mark Orchard “horrible and sad” and said it broke her heart
  • She revealed that recovering from the divorce took her years to navigate emotionally
  • Guthrie explained that she intentionally excluded intimate details of her breakup from her book and encountered no pushback from her publishers
  • Her interview marked one of her first in-depth public discussions of the emotional toll of her first marriage
  • After the split, Guthrie married political advisor Michael Feldman in 2014 and now raises two children with him