Savannah Guthrie reveals rocky start to love story with Michael Feldman that involved a breakup and tears

Savannah Guthrie has revealed that she had a very rocky start with her husband Michael Feldman. 

During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday, the 53-year-old TODAY Show star said that she broke up with Michael before he proposed.

The TV star had waited five-and-a-half years for him to pop the question and she was frustrated it was not happening. Guthrie did not want to wait another day.

So while on vacation in the Turks and Caicos, she told Michael she was done which led to heartbreak and tears.

Little did she know, Feldman had an engagement ring in his pocket that he was ready to propose with. Later in the day, he ended up getting on one knee and asking her for her hand in marriage, which gave her the shock of her life.

The couple ultimately exchanged vows just outside of Guthrie’s hometown of Tucson, Arizona in March 2014, a year after their engagement.

Five months after saying ‘I do’, the pair welcomed their first child together, daughter Vale Guthrie Feldman, on August 13. And two years later on December 8, 2016, the host gave birth to their son, Charles Max.

Savannah Guthrie has revealed that she had a very rocky start with her husband Michael Feldman. During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday, the 53-year-old TODAY Show said that she broke up with Michael before he proposed; seen February 2024

The exchanged nuptials in March 2014. They are parents to daughter Vale, nearly 11, and Charles, nine; seen August 2024

She relayed the story to Kelly, adding plenty of details.

‘I did break up with him the day we got engaged,’ she admitted to Clarkson. 

The Australian-American journalist met the former Democratic political adviser at his 40th birthday party which she ‘crashed’, attending as her gal pal’s plus one. She and Feldman hit it off and they began dating after he sent her an email ‘a few days later.’ 

Sharing that marriage had long been on her mind with the now 56-year-old, she said ‘we had at that point been dating for five and a half years and again,’ she added – stressing their ages as a motive to fast-track marriage – before she said, ‘We weren’t 20 when we got married.’

Guthrie also shared that at the time, her own mother told her they ‘need to [get married] or don’t. Like just do something.’ 

‘I kind of thought, sometimes … when you haven’t decided you’ve decided,’ she told Clarkson.

Recalling the day, Guthrie shared that she and Feldman followed through with a planned trip to Turks and Caicos and were out casually enjoying the breezy beach and clear skies.

She relayed the story to Kelly, adding plenty of details. ‘I did break up with him the day we got engaged,’ she admitted to Clarkson 

‘I certainly did not think we were getting engaged,’ she recalled. ‘When you’ve been dating for 5 and a half years, you no longer think a trip to the beach is the day. Like, you’re not getting your nails done.’

At that moment, she recalled breaking up with him, since she assumed there was no path forward in solidifying their relationship under the law. 

‘Well, honey, you know we love each other… but this had been going on too long, so I think lets just say goodbye. Lets just let each other go,’ she told the communications consultant when by the sea. 

He instead urged them to ‘go enjoy the day’, which Guthrie recalled feeling ‘weepy’ for the entirety of it as she questioned her decision — until everything changed for the better.

She explained to Clarkson: ‘Little do I know, he has an engagement ring in his pocket.  So he has a choice at that point: forget it, nobody knew he hadn’t told a friend, didn’t tell his parents, nobody knew he was gonna propose.

‘So he could’ve easily just let the whole thing go, we break up, that’s the end of the story. But at sunset he said, “You know, [the resort] sent us this champagne lets go sit outside and have a drink.”‘

She also got candid about why she felt that they had to either tie to knot or go their separate ways

Sharing that marriage had long been on her mind with the now 56-year-old, she said ‘we had at that point been dating for five and a half years and again’

Stressing their ages as a motive to fast-track marriage, she quipped, ‘We weren’t 20 when we got married’

Feldman asked the TV star to marry him while on a beach getaway to Turks and Caicos in 2013; seen March 2022

But because Guthrie believed that the pair were going to part ways upon their return home, she instead emotionally insisted the pair drink at a bar for ‘one last hurrah.’

Feldman urged her to sit and at that moment he asked the TV star to marry him.

‘I honestly didn’t understand that was what the question was. And finally he comes around and gets down one knee,’ she shared.

‘It was so shocking to me and I was so happy.’