Brooke Nevils, who accused former NBC anchor Matt Lauer of rape during the 2014 Winter Olympics, has shared a harrowing account in her new memoir. The book revisits the assault and her complex aftermath, including consensual encounters that followed. Lauer's firing from NBC stemmed from her 2017 complaint, which he has denied.
Oh, the tea just got scalding. Brooke Nevils, the former NBC producer who first blew the whistle on Matt Lauer back in 2017, is spilling every gut-wrenching detail in her memoir, "Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame and the Stories We Choose to Believe." Published with an excerpt in The Cut, she writes, "I have spent the long years since using my otherwise abandoned skills as a journalist to report and write the book about sexual harassment and assault that I wish had existed for me." 🔥
Flash back to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Nevils says she was drunk and alone in a hotel room when Lauer allegedly insisted on anal sex. The next morning? She woke up in a pool of blood. "It hurt to walk. It hurt to sit. It hurt to remember," she recounts. Messy doesn't even begin to cover it.
But here's where it gets even more twisted: Nevils admits she later initiated another sexual encounter with Lauer, hoping to reclaim some control. Spoiler: it backfired spectacularly. "I just implicated myself in my own abuse," she reflects. Their preexisting professional relationship blurred the lines, making it hard for her to label it rape at first. "Even now, I hear 'rape' and think of masked strangers in dark alleys. Back then, I had no idea what to call what happened other than weird and humiliating."
Nevils' complaint triggered Lauer's swift exit from NBC News. He fired back, insisting all encounters were consensual. The fallout? More women stepped forward with their own allegations against him, and his wife of 19 years, Annette Roque, filed for divorce. When TMZ rang Lauer for comment, he brushed them off: "I'm at dinner" and hung up. Classic dodge. 👀
So, years later, is this memoir Nevils' ultimate mic drop, or just reopening old wounds?
