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\tBrooke Nevils<\/a>, the former NBC<\/a> talent assistant whose accusations against then-Today<\/a><\/em> anchor Matt Lauer<\/a> led to his exit from the network<\/a>, struggled through tears in her first television appearance on CNN this week to discuss what happened and the book she published earlier this year about her experience with the disgraced journalist.<\/p>\n

\tNevils spoke with CNN anchor Pamela Brown <\/a>about her book, Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe<\/em>, in a Thursday interview. The book recounts four sexual encounters over several years while she was working under Lauer at NBC, where she served as an assistant to Meredith Vieira, his Today<\/em> co-host at the time. The memoir also includes interviews with psychologists and other experts who discuss sexual assault and why victims often blame themselves. \t<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhile I was researching this book, I interviewed a forensic psychologist who casually mentioned this EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) report that I then looked up, and it describes these \u2018superstar harassers,\u2019\u201d Nevils told Brown, describing the concept of a person so central to a company\u2019s success that they can do no wrong in the eyes of its leadership. \u201cMatt Lauer, at that point at NBC, could literally do no wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIn Unspeakable Things<\/em>, Nevils details how her professional relationship with Lauer \u2014 a top talent figure she was tasked with appeasing and keeping happy \u2014 fundamentally changed on the night she went out for drinks with Vieira while covering the Sochi Olympics in Russia, when Lauer joined them. She later describes hiding bloody sheets in her hotel room after Lauer allegedly anally raped her while the two were in Russia to cover the Winter Olympics. That blood, she writes, lingered in her mind as she attempted to convince herself the encounter was normal. \t<\/p>\n

\tNevils writes that Lauer contacted her following the initial encounter in Sochi, emailing a note along the lines of, \u201cYou don\u2019t call, you don\u2019t write \u2014 my feelings are hurt! How are you?\u201d She explains how the message was jarringly confusing and led her to second-guess what had happened, ultimately persuading herself that nothing alarming had occurred. She replied with an innocuous message: \u201cAll good,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

\tDuring a subsequent encounter weeks later at his New York home, she writes that Lauer produced towels in case of any bleeding. This, she says, led her to believe he knew she was in pain, despite telling her otherwise.<\/p>\n

\tFollowing his termination for violating NBC policy, Lauer released a lengthy open letter, which Brown read aloud during the interview.<\/p>\n

\t\u201dThis was his first big response and he says:\u201d Brown told Nevils in the interview segment: \u201cThe story Brooke tells is filled with false details intended only to create the impression this was an abusive encounter. Nothing could be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing aggressive about that encounter. Brooke did not do or say anything to object. She certainly did not cry. She was a fully enthusiastic and willing partner. At no time did she behave in a way that made it appear she was incapable of consent. She seemed to know exactly what she wanted to do. The only concern she expressed was that someone might see her leaving my room. She embraced me at the door as she left.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tNevils, visibly shaken after hearing the statement, responded when asked how she reacts to his claims.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIs that easy for me to hear? It makes me feel ashamed, but at the same time, I listen to that and I can\u2019t believe I was ever alone in a room with that person,\u201d she told Brown in the interview, which first aired Thursday.<\/p>\n

\tWhen asked who the book is for, Nevils recalled the loneliness she felt in the aftermath of the encounters.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI remember what it felt like to read other women talking about what happened to them \u2014 to hear them say things I thought I was the only one to feel, to have been in that position, to have reacted that way. And that moment where you realize you\u2019re not alone \u2014 that changes everything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\tLater in the interview, Nevils expanded on that answer, addressing men in positions of power in corporate America.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cUntil we talk about the messy gray areas, until we talk about how power impacts someone\u2019s ability to consent \u2014 you have to have the power to say yes or no \u2014 you have to think about the position you\u2019re putting someone in,\u201d she said. \u201cOtherwise, this is just going to keep happening. That\u2019s why I wrote the book. We have to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u30cf\u30ea\u30a6\u30c3\u30c9\u30fb\u30ea\u30dd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc<\/em> reached out to Lauer\u2019s agent for comment but did not immediately hear back on Friday. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooke Nevils, the former NBC talent assistant whose accusations against then-Today anchor Matt Lauer led to his exit from the network, struggled through tears in her first television appearance on CNN this week to discuss what happened and the book she published earlier this year about her experience with the disgraced journalist. Nevils spoke with CNN anchor Pamela Brown about her book, Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe, in a Thursday interview. The book recounts four sexual encounters over several years while she was working under Lauer at NBC, where she served as an assistant to Meredith Vieira, his Today co-host at the time. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[530,65,2,531,523,28,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooke-nevils","category-general-news","category-hollywood","category-matt-lauer","category-nbc","category-news","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}