The NBC News employee whose sexual harassment complaint led to the firing of Matt Lauer in November 2017 says she was raped by the former anchor, according to a new book by investigative journalist Ronan Farrow.
According to a report in Variety, which obtained a copy of the book, “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,” Lauer allegedly forced the woman, Brooke Nevils, to have anal sex in a hotel room in Sochi, Russia, while the “Today” team was covering the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Nevils alleges that once she was in Lauer’s hotel room he pushed her against a door and kissed her before pushing her on the bed and asking her if she liked anal sex. She declined several times, but he “just did it,” according to the book. She said she wept into a pillow during the incident. In a report Wednesday on “Today,” the network said in a statement: “Matt Lauer’s conduct was appalling, horrific and reprehensible as we said at the time. That’s why he was fired within 24 hours of us first learning of the complaint. Our hearts break for our colleague.”
“I want to make it perfectly clear that any allegations or reports of coercive, aggressive or abusive actions on my part, at any time, are absolutely false,” Lauer said in a statement he issued in April 2018. Co-anchor Hoda Kotb, who was close friends with Lauer, also expressed dismay. “You feel like you’ve known someone inside and all of a sudden a door opens up and it’s a part of them you didn’t know,” she said.The book, which was given in advance to the Hollywood Reporter for a cover story out Wednesday, also details what Farrow said are Harvey Weinstein’s efforts to use information about Lauer’s behavior to suppress Farrow’s reporting on the movie mogul’s alleged sexual misconduct.
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