Article continues below advertisementBrooke Nevils said there was a dark reason she stayed silent after alleging Matt Lauer raped her overseas in 2014. "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," Nevils wrote in her upcoming book, Unspeakable Things, in an excerpt shared by a news outlet on Thursday, January 29.