In a lengthy statement, Lauer admitted to extramarital affairs, including with former co-workers, but said "I have never assaulted anyone or forced anyone to have sex. Period."
Lauer also refuted other claims that have been made about his conduct at NBC, including the reports that his office had a button that let him lock the door from the inside. "There was no such locking mechanism. It didn't exist," he said.
Lauer and Nevils have very different accounts of what happened. But they agree that their first sexual interaction was in February 2014 when they were both in Sochi, Russia, covering the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Nevils told Farrow about a night of drinking with Lauer and others at a hotel bar. Nevils said she had six shots of vodka. According to Farrow, Nevils says Lauer invited her up to his room but, Nevils said she "had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience."
Once inside the room, she says Lauer forced himself onto her and raped her.
"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."
Afterward, she said, "it hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?"
"Back in her room, she threw up," Farrow wrote in the book. "She took off her pants, passed out. When she woke up, blood was everywhere, soaked through her underwear, soaked through her sheets."
Lauer described the night this way in his letter: "She came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual."
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Lauer also refuted other claims that have been made about his conduct at NBC, including the reports that his office had a button that let him lock the door from the inside. "There was no such locking mechanism. It didn't exist," he said.
Lauer and Nevils have very different accounts of what happened. But they agree that their first sexual interaction was in February 2014 when they were both in Sochi, Russia, covering the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Nevils told Farrow about a night of drinking with Lauer and others at a hotel bar. Nevils said she had six shots of vodka. According to Farrow, Nevils says Lauer invited her up to his room but, Nevils said she "had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience."
Once inside the room, she says Lauer forced himself onto her and raped her.
"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."
Afterward, she said, "it hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?"
"Back in her room, she threw up," Farrow wrote in the book. "She took off her pants, passed out. When she woke up, blood was everywhere, soaked through her underwear, soaked through her sheets."
Lauer described the night this way in his letter: "She came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual."
Link to full article
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/b...in-new-ronan-farrow-book/ar-AAIva80?li=AA30Oe
