Brooke Nevils claims Matt Lauer made her perform a sex act before he would film video message for exiting staffer and that she acquiesced because he employed her boyfriend’s brother
- Brooke Nevils told Ronan Farrow that she began having sexual encounters with Matt Lauer back in New York after he allegedly raped her in Sochi
- She recounted two of the encounters to Farrow, including an instance where Lauer grabbed her hips and digitally penetrated her from behind
- That left her with bruises she said, and Nevils said she broke down in tears after the encounter and told her boyfriend, who was a producer at the network
- In November 2014, Nevils said that she had to go to Lauer’s office to get a video message for a farewell tape she was putting together for a departing employee
- Lauer agreed writes Farrow, but when Nevils arrived in his office at 30 Rock ‘he told her to go down on him’
- Nevils said that during this encounter with Lauer she asked: ‘Why do you do this?’ He replied: ‘Because it is fun’
Brooke Nevils told Ronan Farrow that she began having sexual encounters with Matt Lauer after he allegedly raped her
Brooke Nevils claims that Matt Lauer made her perform sex acts on him at NBC headquarters in New York City after he allegedly raped her in Sochi.
In his new book Catch and Kill, Ronan Farrow details two of these incidents, one in which Lauer allegedly performed a digital sex act on Nevils and a second in which he allegedly forced her to perform an oral sex act.
Nevils said that second incident occurred in November of 2014, when she ‘volunteered to put together a goodbye video for her ex-boyfriend, who was leaving a job at the network.’
It was in this capacity that Nevils approached Lauer and asked if he would be willing to record a message.
Lauer agreed writes Farrow, but when Nevils arrived in his office at 30 Rock ‘he told her to go down on him.’
Nevils also told Farrow that she was afraid that to refuse Lauer because one of his employees was her boyfriend’s brother.
‘I was really upset, I felt terrible,’ Nevils told Farrow.
‘I was trying to do this nice thing, and i had to give Matt a blow job to get him to film a goodbye video. I just felt sick.’
Nevils said that during this encounter with Lauer she asked: ‘Why do you do this?’
He replied: ‘Because it is fun.’
There were multiple encounters between the pair when they returned to New York, but it was the digital act which happened by complete surprise that stuck with Nevils.
Her boss, Meredith Vieira, had asked her to obtain digital copies of some photos that Lauer was in possession of, forcing her to go to his office and email them from his desk.
It was while she was in the process of sending the phtoos that lauer allegedly ‘grabbed her hips and fingered her.’
That incident left ‘dark purple marks’ on her body she said, though she remained ‘numb’ throughout the encounter.
‘In my internal narrative I failed because I didn’t say no,’ said Nevils.
She burst into tears soon after she left the office and shared what had hasppeend ith the man she was seeing, a producer with the network.
Nevils said that she ‘told like a million people’ over the years, but nothing ever happened – even she she told her new boss after leaving Vieira.
It was Vieieira however who told her to speak up and go to human resources after she appeared at her former boss’ apartment.
Farrow also writes that the friend who convinced Nevils to go to Vieira also had an ‘experience’ with Lauer, and believed there had been ‘professional fallout from it afterward.’
Vieira immediately identified Lauer as the man who had caused Nevils to be in so much agony writes Ronan.
She then noted: ‘Think of all the other women I’ve gotten jobs there.’
Catch and Release is on bookshelves today.