{"id":88598,"date":"2026-05-01T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/matt-lauer-accuser-brooke-nevils-speaks-out-in-tv-interview\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:19:13","slug":"matt-lauer-accuser-brooke-nevils-speaks-out-in-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/matt-lauer-accuser-brooke-nevils-speaks-out-in-tv-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Lauer Accuser Brooke Nevils Speaks Out in TV Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Matt Lauer<\/strong>\u2019s rape accuser Brooke Nevils<\/strong> spoke out in her first televised interview months after releasing her book, Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame and the Stories We Choose to Believe<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatt Lauer, at that point, at NBC could literally do no wrong,\u201d Nevils told CNN anchor Pamela Brown on Thursday, April 10, of the longtime Today<\/em> anchor\u2019s career before his 2017 firing. \u201cIt was unthinkable to imagine that it could be anything other than a misunderstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevils explained that her \u201cbrain almost just could not compute the idea that he could do anything wrong,\u201d noting that it took her years to realize that she had been sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me years because what I felt was why did I become a completely different person?\u201d she said. \u201cWhy am I doing these things that I don\u2019t even understand why I\u2019m doing?\u201d<\/p>\n

During the height of the #MeToo movement, Nevils alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by Lauer, now 68, during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Nevils has said she had drank too much and could not consent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote an email making jokes about how I was so drunk I couldn\u2019t open my hotel room door,\u201d Nevils recalled on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Nevils has claimed that she and Lauer continued to have \u201csexual encounters\u201d upon returning to New York. On Thursday, Nevils explained that she thought that was \u201ctaking back control\u201d of the situation at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally, what I was doing was implicating myself in my own abuse. By the time I understood that I was trapped, I knew I was going to be blamed for all of it,\u201d Nevils said. \u201cI blamed myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Nevils made a formal complaint against Lauer in 2017, he was fired from his job at Today<\/em>. The disgraced news anchor denied all the accusations in a 2019 letter, claiming their experiences were \u201ccompletely mutual and consensual.\u201d Nevils, who was a Today<\/em> producer, took a leave of absence from NBC that eventually became permanent. She released her book, Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame and the Stories We Choose to Believe<\/i><\/em>, which detailed several allegations against Lauer, in February.<\/p>\n

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Related: <\/span>Why Was Matt Lauer Fired From ‘Today’? Breaking Down the Accusations<\/span>
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Brown read a portion of Lauer\u2019s 2019 denial to Nevils, who said it was \u201cdevastating\u201d to hear.<\/p>\n

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