Matt Lauer's rape accuser Brooke Nevils spoke out in her first televised interview months after releasing her book, Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame and the Stories We Choose to Believe. "Matt Lauer, at that point, at NBC could literally do no wrong," Nevils told CNN anchor Pamela Brown on Thursday, April 10, of the longtime Today anchor's career before his 2017 firing. "It was unthinkable to imagine that it could be anything other than a misunderstanding.