"My job was to smooth things over for the talent. So I thought, This I know how to do, I can smooth this over,' Nevils said. And so I went back, and when I went back, the first thing that happened was he suggested I come meet him in his apartment. And when you're sitting in the dressing room of the anchor of The Today Show in Studio 1-A, are you really in a position to say no? Of course you're not, Nevils said."
"And the most confusing part of it was that every single time, I thought I was fixing it, I was taking back control but really what I was doing was implicating myself and my own abuse. And then by the time I understood that I was trapped, I knew I was going to be blamed for all of it. And I blamed myself."
"After I made my complaint, someone asked me, you know, how I was doing with the trauma of what had happened to me, and I was just like, I don't know what you're talking - I have plenty of problems, but trauma isn't one of them. I'm fine,' Nevils said. And saying you're fine is avoidance. That's a classic symptom of PTSD that I didn't recognize."
Brooke Nevils, the first woman to accuse Matt Lauer of sexual assault, shared her experiences of trauma and denial during an interview. She described how her attempts to manage the situation led to feelings of confusion and self-blame. Nevils recounted the repeated incidents of abuse starting in 2014 and her eventual complaint to NBC in 2017, which resulted in Lauer's firing. She reflected on her struggles with PTSD and the impact of her denial on her mental health, culminating in a leave of absence from her job.
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