Brooke Nevils — a lady who accused Matt Lauer of raping her in a resort room through the 2014 Winter Olympics — has revisited the brutal expertise she says left her damaged.
After first reporting Matt in 2017, Brooke has now written a memoir, “Unspeakable Issues: Silence, Disgrace and the Tales We Select to Imagine,” which particulars the preliminary assault and explains her consensual encounters that adopted.
In an excerpt, printed by The Reduce, Brooke writes, “I’ve spent the lengthy years since utilizing my in any other case deserted expertise as a journalist to report and write the ebook about sexual harassment and assault that I want had existed for me.”
Brooke explains she was drunk and alone the night time Matt insisted on having anal intercourse together with her. Within the essay, she says the subsequent morning she wakened in a pool of blood.
“It damage to stroll. It damage to take a seat. It damage to recollect,” she writes.
However later, Brooke says she really initiated a subsequent sexual encounter, pondering it might assist her take again management.
Tragically, Brooke writes, her plan fully backfired … “I simply implicated myself in my very own abuse.”
In line with Brooke, it was her “preexisting relationship” with Matt that made it troublesome for her to border it as abuse at first.
She writes, “Even now, I hear ‘rape’ and consider masked strangers in darkish alleys. Again then, I had no thought what to name what occurred apart from bizarre and humiliating.”
As you already know … Brooke’s grievance led to Matt’s firing from NBC. He denied the accusation, saying all their encounters have been consensual. Within the aftermath, a number of different ladies got here out with their very own allegations in opposition to Matt. His spouse of 19 years, Annette Roque, later filed for divorce.
When TMZ reached out to Matt by cellphone for remark, he stated he was at dinner and hung up.




