Matt Lauer at a 2015 event in New York. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment A new book authored by the woman who accused Today host Matt Lauer of rape, setting off a chain of events at NBC that saw the $25 million-a-year morning show host fired within 24 hours and cast out of his life in New York, details the initial alleged assault and provides an explanation as to why she carried on a relationship with him as she was allegedly assaulted multiple additional times. Former NBC talent assistant Brooke Nevils told NBC News human resources about the instances of alleged sexual assault and the relationship that she developed with the influential host in 2014. In her soon-to-be-released book, Unspeakable Things, Nevils details how her professional relationship with Lauer, a top talent figure who she was charged with appeasing and keeping happy, fundamentally changed on the night she went out for a drink with her boss, Meredith Vieira, and Lauer turned up. Related Stories TV '13 Reasons Why' Author Claims #MeToo Was Weaponized Against Him TV 'Queer Eye' Star Karamo Brown Opts Out of Morning Show Stops Citing "Mental and Emotional Abuse" In a section of her book that was published by The Cut on Wednesday, Nevils describes hiding the bloody sheets in her hotel room after Lauer allegedly anally raped her while the two were in Russia to cover the Winter Olympics. That blood, she writes, lingered in her mind as she tried to justify all other aspects of the encounter with Lauer; as she describes, Nevils was attempting to convince herself that her alleged sexual assault was a normal encounter. But the blood, she wrote, was never going to be explainable, to herself or to anyone else. "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," she writes. "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. Who would I call? Putin? The KGB? There was only NBC, and Matt Lauer 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. The whole thing had to have been my fault." Lauer maintains the encounter with Nevils in Sochi was "mutual and completely consensual." As of publication, he has not been charged with or convicted of any crime and denies all allegations of abusive or coercive sexual conduct and nonconsensual sex with any woman at any time. The day following the alleged assault, with the intrusive thoughts of what had happened to her racing through her head, Nevils went about her business, not reporting the alleged attack to anyone, even as she sat and had lunch with her colleagues. This was because, she explains in the book, NBC had cloned their phones and they would be cross-checked upon their return to the U.S. to ensure they were not compromised or tampered with while in Russia. Because of this, she could not even call her mother or a friend to talk about her experience. Nevils writes that she was not even comfortable doing a web search to find out what to do about the bleeding she was experiencing following the assault, lest it be seen by NBC security or Russia's politsiya. Lauer, she writes, did contact her following the initial encounter in Sochi, emailing her a note along the lines of, "You don't call, you don't write - my feelings are hurt! How are you?" Nevils explains in her book how this message was jarringly confusing and led her to second-guess what had happened, ultimately leading her back to the belief that the nature of the encounter was nothing alarming. She wrote back an innocuous message: "All good," she writes in the book. "Ignoring the talent was not an option, and if he needed reassurance, I would reassure him," she writes. "It's never enough just to refrain from making a powerful person feel bad about something they've done. You have to assure them that they have no reason to feel bad at all, lest they associate that nagging, uncomfortable feeling - personal accountability - with you. We tend to avoid people who make us feel bad, and once the talent starts avoiding you for whatever reason, your days are numbered." While she was in Sochi to cover the games, Nevils writes, she made several attempts to contact Lauer via email to go over what had happened. Lauer never responded and she only reached him by waking the anchor in the middle of the night. Nevils writes that he told her to get in touch when the two of them were back in New York. When they were back at