Brooke Nevils, who has publicly accused former TODAY show host Matt Lauer of rape, is now sharing more details about the alleged sexual assault.
Nevils is releasing an upcoming memoir about the ordeal entitled Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe. It is set to be released on February 3.
"I have spent the long years since using my otherwise abandoned skills as a journalist to report and write the book about sexual harassment and assault that I wish had existed for me," an excerpt released from the memoir reads.
Nevils claims that she was in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 for the Winter Olympics when she went to Lauer's hotel room. This was after she had gone to the bar with Today's co-anchor Meredith Vieira. She says she was under the influence at the time she went to Lauer's hotel room.
[I was] "drunk and alone with Matt Lauer insisting on having anal sex," she wrote.
The morning after the alleged assault occurred, Nevils claims she woke up with her "underwear and the sheet beneath me caked with blood." She said that the pain was "undeniable" and that "It hurt to walk. It hurt to sit. It hurt to remember."
Despite later accusing him of rape, Nevils claims that this initially wasn't a word she would have used to describe what happened to her at the time.
She "would never have used the word 'rape' to describe what had happened. Even now, I hear 'rape' and think of masked strangers in dark alleys. Back then, I had no idea what to call what happened other than weird and humiliating," she wrote.
Following Nevils' allegations against him, Lauer was fired from his job at TODAY in 2017. He had worked for the show for more than 21 years. He has denied all of Nevils' allegations.