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Brooke Nevils, who famously accused now-disgraced journalist Matt Lauer of intersexual battle successful 2017, couldn’t clasp backmost her emotions arsenic she recalled her acquisition pinch her alleged “superstar harasser” while discussing her book, “Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and nan Stories We Choose to Believe,” successful a Thursday interview.
“While I was researching this book, I interviewed a forensic scientist who casually mentioned this EEOC study that I past looked up and it describes these ‘superstar harassers,'” Nevils told CNN anchor Pamela Brown.
The agency committee’s study warned employers of these imaginable “rain makers” who “are perceived to beryllium truthful valuable to a institution that they tin do nary wrong.”
“Matt Lauer, astatine that point, astatine NBC could virtually do nary wrong,” Nevils said of nan ex-“Today” show anchor elsewhere successful nan interview, explaining that it was “unthinkable” to judge her accusations could “be thing different than a misunderstanding.”
Nevils antecedently alleged that Lauer, now 68, anally raped her in his edifice room while she was moving arsenic Meredith Vieira‘s individual adjunct and covering nan 2014 Winter Olympics successful Sochi, Russia. At nan time, she claimed she was drunk and could not consent.
She later shared that she and Lauer continued having “sexual” interactions aft they returned to New York.
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“My occupation was to soft things complete for nan talent. So, I thought, ‘This, I cognize really to do. one tin soft this over.’ So, I went backmost and erstwhile I went back, nan first point that happened was he suggested I travel meet him successful his apartment,” she said successful her Thursday interview.
“When you’re sitting successful nan dressing room of nan anchor of nan ‘Today’ show successful Studio 1A, are you really successful a position to opportunity no? Of course, you’re not. And that conscionable happened again and again.”
“The astir confusing portion of it was that each azygous time, I thought I was fixing it. one was taking backmost control, but really, I was implicating myself successful my ain abuse. Then, by nan clip I understood that I was trapped, I knew I was going to beryllium blamed for each of it. And I blamed myself,” she explained.
A rep for Lauer did not instantly respond to Page Six’s petition for comment.
In 2017, Nevils revenge a general title against Lauer and — wrong 24 hours — Lauer was fired from his station connected nan “Today” show and NBC, and respective different women came guardant pinch accusations against him.
In her memoir, Nevils recounts the alleged assault successful schematic detail.
“It wounded to walk. It wounded to sit. It wounded to remember,” she shares. She goes connected to stock that Lauer emailed her later that time pinch a connection that read, “You don’t call, you don’t constitute — my feelings are hurt! How are you?”
“I had nary thought really to respond, but I knew that to inquire anyone for thief would only make it worse,” Nevils writes successful her memoir. “Shameful secrets are for illustration that. To spot anyone is to springiness them powerfulness complete you. I was wholly alone, drowning successful plain sight.”
“Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and nan Stories We Choose to Believe” is presently disposable for acquisition wherever books are sold.
If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, telephone nan Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-330-0226.
