Matt Lauer Accuser
Writes Blow By Blow Account Of Alleged 2014 Rape
Revealed
Brooke Nevils — a lady who accused Matt Lauer of raping her in a resort room in the course of 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 Things: Silence, Shame and the Stories We Choose to Believe,” which particulars the preliminary assault and explains her consensual encounters that adopted.
In an excerpt, revealed by The Minimize, Brooke 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.”
Brooke explains she was drunk and alone the evening Matt insisted on having anal intercourse together with her. Within the essay, she says the following morning she wakened in a pool of blood.
“It hurt to walk. It hurt to sit. It hurt to remember,” she writes.
However later, Brooke says she truly initiated a subsequent sexual encounter, considering it could assist her take again management.
Tragically, Brooke writes, her plan fully backfired … “I just implicated myself in my own abuse.”
In response to Brooke, it was her “preexisting relationship” with Matt that made it tough for her to border it as abuse at first.
She writes, “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.”
As you understand … Brooke’s criticism led to Matt’s firing from NBC. He denied the accusation, saying all their encounters had been consensual. Within the aftermath, a number of different ladies got here out with their very own allegations towards Matt. His spouse of 19 years, Annette Roque, later filed for divorce.
When TMZ reached out to Matt by cellphone for remark, he mentioned he was at dinner and hung up.