Brooke Nevils says she couldn’t call police in Russia after alleged 2014 Matt Lauer rape

Brooke Nevils says she did not call police after the man she accuses of raping her — former NBC anchor Matt Lauer — because the alleged incident occurred in Russia during the 2014 Winter Olympics, she writes in her forthcoming memoir Unspeakable Things, an excerpt of which was obtained by the Cut and reported by Page Six.

Nevils writes that a single thought crossed her mind — that she would have gone to the police if anyone else had done it — and was “instantly struck from [her] consciousness.” Working in Russia, she wrote, made that thought useless: “Who would I call? [Russian president Vladimir] Putin?

The KGB?” She describes the power dynamics at NBC at the time, noting Lauer was then “’Today’s’ longest-serving anchor with the biggest contract in the 60-year history of morning television, worth a reported $25 million a year.” Nevils wrote that in the news business then “his point of view was reality,” and she blamed herself, saying smoothing things over for talent was her job.

Nevils also says NBC had made copies of hard drives before the trip and that “if I used my phone, my computer, or the internet, NBC would know about it.” She wrote the only doctor available and the only people she knew in Russia were NBC employees, and that many colleagues’ careers were dependent on Lauer’s success.

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