Matt Lauer accuser Brooke Nevils explains why she didn’t call police after alleged 2014 rape

Matt Lauer’s accuser Brooke Nevils revealed she didn’t call police after the disgraced news anchor allegedly raped her because of his high-profile status.

The former NBC employee wrote in her upcoming book, “Unspeakable Things,” per an excerpt obtained by the Cut, “One strikingly clear thought crossed my mind and then was instantly struck from my consciousness: If anyone else had done this to me, I would have gone to the police.

“But it was an utterly useless thought to have, if only because I knew that I would never, ever, have let anyone else do that to me and because I was in freaking Russia,” Nevils, who claimed the former “Today” show host raped her in a hotel room during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, added.

“Who would I call? [Russian president Vladimir] Putin? The KGB?”

Nevils said the only people who were overseas with her when the alleged incident took place were people from the network, including Lauer, who, at that time, was “‘Today’s’ longest-serving anchor with the biggest contract in the 60-year history of morning television, worth a reported $25 million a year.”

“In the news business back then, his point of view was reality, and if you disagreed with it, you were wrong,” she wrote.

“The whole thing had to have been my fault. I had given him the wrong idea, failed to be clear, failed to convince him, failed to stop him, failed to find a graceful way out of the situation without embarrassing him,” Nevils penned.

“I certainly should not have bled. The only thing to do was to smooth it over, and smoothing things over for the talent was my actual day job. That, at least, I knew how to do.”

Nevils said “had [she] been anywhere else, I could have gotten help, or talked to someone, or called my mother, or at minimum done a damn Google search.”

However, in Russia, “all surveillance was legal, and as a preventative measure, NBC had made copies of the hard drives of all our devices — even our personal ones — before we left New York so that when we returned, they could compare the two to check for malware.”

“If I used my phone, my computer, or the internet, NBC would know about it,” she wrote.

“The only doctor available was employed by NBC. The only people I knew in Russia were other NBC employees. I was surrounded by people whose careers, like mine, were dependent upon Matt’s success,” Nevils claimed.

Elsewhere in her memoir, Nevils described the aftermath of the alleged rape, saying she woke up in her Russian hotel room with her “underwear and the sheet beneath [her] caked with blood.”

The former NBC talent assistant alleged in her book that she was “drunk and alone” when Lauer “insist[ed] on having anal sex” in a “spinning room” with her body “unsteady” and her mind “blurred [and] frantic.”

Instead of going to the cops, Nevils placed the blood-stained hotel sheets in the corner, threw away her underwear and continued her day as if nothing had happened.

Nevils went on to have sexual relations with Lauer several other times after the alleged rape but claimed their “preexisting relationship” made her “much less likely to immediately recognize it as an assault.”

In November 2017, Nevils filed a complaint with NBC, accusing Lauer of sexual misconduct. Within 24 hours, he was terminated from the network.

The then-news anchor also split from his wife, Annette Roque.

Lauer responded to Nevils’ claims in an open letter, denying that he ever raped her but admitting that he did have an extramarital affair with her.

After Lauer lost his job, other allegations of misconduct against the former news personality surfaced.

Lauer has denied all allegations against him. He has been living a quiet life in the Hamptons since the scandal.

Nevils first described the alleged rape in Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill” in 2019 and subsequently took a leave of absence from NBC and never returned.

That same year, NBC said in a statement: “Matt Lauer’s conduct was appalling, horrific and reprehensible, as we said at the time. That’s why he was fired within 24 hours of us first learning of the complaint. Our hearts break again for our colleague.”

Reps for Lauer and NBC did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.