Savannah Guthrie Left Shaken After ‘Today’ Intruder: ‘How Much More Can One Person Take?’

Savannah Guthrie was reportedly left rattled after an intruder made it inside NBC’s headquarters and lunged at Craig Melvin while searching for Al Roker.

The frightening moment unfolded moments after Guthrie, 54, walked off set on Thursday, July 16 — just one day before she left for an extended break from the show to film the upcoming game show, Wordle.

“Nobody would blame Savannah if she decided she needed more time,” a source told Rob Shuter‘s Naughty But Nice Substack on Friday, July 17. “She’s been carrying an enormous emotional burden, and this was another shock. The feeling inside the show is that everyone wants her to put herself first.”

While NBC quickly began reviewing their security protocols after the incident, a separate source told the gossip blog that the moment “was a reminder that nowhere feels completely safe anymore.”

“Everyone is asking the same question: if this could happen here, what happens next?” they added.

An NBC source also spoke with Naughty But Nice and revealed that Guthrie was particularly shaken because she’s been dealing with the abduction of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, for months.

“How much more can one person take?” the source said. “After everything Savannah has endured with her family, this happened just moments after she walked off the set. It hit everyone hard, but it hit differently because of her.”

As In Touch previously reported, on Thursday, alleged intruder Andrew Truelove managed to get past security and on the set of the popular morning show. Truelove, 41, reportedly asked for Roker before lunging at Melvin and calling him a racial slur.

According to a statement from NBC, Truelove “entered an unauthorized area in a vestibule near Studio 1A.”

“The individual was detained and taken into custody by law enforcement without further incident,” the statement continued. “There was no altercation, and no one was injured.”

Truelove was arrested at the scene and later charged with burglary as a hate crime and menacing as a hate crime, according to a complaint obtained by In Touch.

He’s scheduled to appear in court on July 22.