Overview
- Nevils spoke with CNN's Pamela Brown in an interview that aired Thursday about her claim that Lauer assaulted her in 2014 during NBC's Sochi Olympics coverage.
- She said it took years to recognize the encounters as assault because Lauer was treated as untouchable at NBC and she felt obligated to keep him happy.
- After she filed a formal complaint in 2017, NBC fired Lauer within days, and he later issued a 2019 statement denying wrongdoing and calling the encounters consensual.
- Her memoir, Unspeakable Things, published in February, recounts painful details from Sochi and later meetings in New York and describes the confusion and self-blame she carried.
- Nevils cited EEOC research on “superstar harassers,” describing rainmakers seen as so valuable they “can do no wrong,” and Lauer has not faced criminal charges.