**WARNING: Some readers may find details in this story to be disturbing
A new book by former NBC News reporter Ronan Farrow reveals new allegations against former Today Show anchor Matt Lauer, Variety reported.
"Catch and Kill" is Farrow's upcoming book that recounts his investigation of Harvey Weinstein and the hurdles he faced that lead him to take the story from NBC News to the New Yorker instead.
In the book, Farrow talked to the former NBC News staffer whose complaint against Lauer lead to his firing back in 2017.
Brooke Nevils, whose identity was initially protected by NBC News at her request, agreed to talk to Farrow for the book. In the book, obtained by Variety, Nevils claims that Lauer anally raped her in his hotel room while they were in Russia for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
According to Variety:
According to the book, Nevils told Farrow the encounter was painful and that "she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow."
When Lauer asked her if she liked it, Farrow wrote, she told him yes, Variety reported.
“It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” Nevils told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”
When they returned to New York, Nevils claimed she had more sexual encounters with Lauer.
"This is what I blamed myself most for," Nevils said. "It was completely transactional. It was not a relationship."
According to the account of Farrow's book in the Variety article, Nevils was "terrified about the control Lauer had over her career."
Nevils told Farrow she told "like a million people" what happened.
It wasn't until Farrow's bombshell story on Weinstein was published back in 2017, that Nevils said Viera urged her to go to NBC Universal human resources with a lawyer. She did and Lauer was fired.
Nevils went on medical leave in 2018 and received a payout of more than $1 million, Farrow wrote in the book which comes out next week.
Variety said a representative for Lauer did not immediately respond to their request for comment. Back in 2018, Lauer gave the following statement to The Washington Post:
In a statement included in an NBC News report on the new allegations Wednesday morning, the network said: