As for Lauer, he was fired in 2017 following an avalanche of sexual misconduct claims – together with rape – which he denies.
Brooke Nevils, an assistant producer to Lauer’s co-host Meredith Vieira, claimed he assaulted her in his lodge room when each have been masking the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
She stated in a press release on the time: “There’s the Matt Lauer that hundreds of thousands of People watched on TV each morning for 20 years, and there’s the Matt Lauer who this morning tried to bully a former colleague into silence.”
Nevils added: “His open letter was a case examine in sufferer blaming. I’m not afraid of him now. No matter his threats, bullying, and the shaming and predatory ways I knew he would (and now has) tried to make use of towards me.”