Brooke Nevils is recalling the moments before, during and after she accused disgraced Today host Matt Lauer of sexual assault. "Rape is a word I hardly ever use because when you hear the word rape, you think of a guy in a ski mask in the dark alley and fighting for your life," Nevils told NPR in an interview published on Thursday, January 29. "And that's just not the reality of how sexual assaults happen when most of the time it's someone that you know and trust," she continued. "So we don't really have language to talk about this and we certainly didn't in 2017 when I was reporting it.