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It also reveals new details about the rape allegation that endedMatt Lauers careerat NBC, according toVariety.
Farrow writes that Nevils had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience.
Lauer, she said, didnt use lubricant, Farrow writes.
The encounter was excruciatingly painful.
It hurt so bad.
I remember thinking, Is this normal?
She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.
When he asked, Nevils told Lauer she liked it.
She says she bled for days afterward.
Back in New York, Nevils and Lauer began a sexual relationship that she described as completely transactional.
When it ended, Nevils toldlike a million peopleabout the relationship, including her bosses and co-workers at NBC.
Nothing happened, Nevils says, until the Me Too movement set off bells for her colleagues.
Even after Lauer was fired, tensions in the office and allegiances to the anchor made her life torture.
Eventually, she was placed on medical leave and paid seven figures by the company, according to Farrow.
The journalist also claims NBC News president Noah Oppenheimobstructed himfrom looking into Harvey Weinstein.
Thats why he was fired within 24 hours of us first learning of the complaint.
Our hearts break again for our colleague.
