"Nevils agreed to go to Lauer's hotel room, she writes, in part because she wanted to delete unflattering photos he'd taken of her at the bar. She woke up the next day, she writes, crusted in blood. She recalls that she did not "say no or stop" when Lauer took off her jeans, and eventually "gave up" when he asked for anal sex."
"As a personal assistant to on-air talent, she says she had learned to "ignore so many basic personal boundaries," to "do things you don't personally want to do" and "pretend to enjoy things you do not personally enjoy." She visited Lauer in New York afterward several times, and had further sexual encounters, she writes, because she wanted to avoid being "a victim" and instead become "a master" of her own fate."
Brooke Nevils recounts a 2014 incident in Sochi where Matt Lauer joined her and Meredith Vieira for drinks, after which she ended up in Lauer's hotel room and later alleged he pressured her into nonconsensual sex while she was inebriated. She reported him to NBC in 2017, leading to his firing; Lauer denied wrongdoing and called their relationship consensual, stating, "I have never assaulted anyone or forced anyone to have sex. Period." Nevils writes that she agreed to enter the room to delete unflattering photos, woke crusted in blood, did not explicitly refuse when sex escalated, and later had further encounters to assert control rather than be a victim.
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