today‘s Ann Curry is speaking out in support of the former NBC producer Brooke Nevilswho accused Matt Lauer of violation in 2017.
“I remember Brooke as kind-hearted and believable, with great potential,” Curry, 69, said. people in a statement on Thursday, January 29. “She’s brave too.”
Nevils before she reported that she was anally raped de Lauer, 68, in Sochi, Russia, while covering the 2014 Winter Olympics. He was fired by NBC three years later after a complaint about “sexual misconduct in the workplace.”
“While this is the first complaint about his behavior in the more than 20 years he has been at NBC News, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident,” read a letter from the NBC News president. Andrew Lack in 2017. “Our top priority is to create a work environment where everyone feels safe and secure and to ensure that all actions that go against our core values are met with consequences, regardless of who the offender is. We are deeply saddened by this turn of events.”
In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Indescribable thingsavailable Feb. 3, Nevils shared more details of the alleged Sochi incident, as well as a separate encounter with Lauer that allegedly took place in a New York City apartment after the Olympics. He claimed there were “four more cases” between them over the next few months.
“It would take years, and a national reckoning with sexual harassment and assault, before I called what happened to me assault,” Nevils wrote.
In 2019, Lauer vehemently denied Nevils’ rape allegations, stating in a letter shared through his lawyer that the former colleagues had an “extramarital but consensual sexual encounter”. (Nevils alleged in Ronan Farrowthe book of catch and kill that he was “too drunk to consent” and told Lauer “many times” that he didn’t want anal sex.)
Curry, meanwhile, hosted the today show alongside Lauer from 2010 to 2011. He left NBC News in 2015 after nearly 25 years at the network.
When NBC cut ties with Lauer in 2017, Curry said The Washington Post that she he reported it on behalf of a colleague in 2012. A woman allegedly confided in Curry that she was being “physically sexually harassed” by Lauer.
“She was afraid of losing her job … I believed her,” Curry recalled. “I told management they had a problem and they needed to watch him and how he treats women.”
At the time, an NBC spokesman told him publication that they had no record of Curry’s complaint, which was not noted in Lauer’s personnel file.
Curry then came to Nevils defense in 2019 after catch and kill was released “Brooke Nevils is a credible, good-natured young woman. She came to NBC News as an eager, guileless twenty-year-old full of talent,” Curry wrote on social media. “I think he’s telling the truth. And it breaks my heart.”
Following reports of tension between the former cohosts, a source explained exclusively Us Weekly in 2019 that Curry may know more than has been publicly shared.
“Ann has kept a dignified silence, but a lot of people trusted her years ago and still do to this day,” the source said. we in 2019. “She knows more than most who Matt really is, and when he finally speaks, it will destroy him.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact them National sexual assault hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).