Brooke Nevils details Matt Lauer’s alleged assault in NBC dressing room: He said ‘it would only take a minute’

Brooke Nevils details a horrifying sexual assault she claims took place between her and Matt Lauer in her memoir, “Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame and the Stories We Choose to Believe,” which he promised would “only take a minute.”

The former NBC employee recalls that Lauer asked her to come to his dressing room at the “Today” show, after they both returned from the Sochi Olympics in 2014, where she claims he anally raped her.

“Before I could sit down,” she writes, “his hands were once again on both sides of my face, just as they had been in Sochi…then he pulled back and said, ‘I can’t f–k you here, as though it was even remotely normal to suggest having sex in the dressing room of one of the world’s most famous television studios.”

Nevils claims that Lauer pulled her towards an angled wall in his dressing room and pushed down her shoulders until she was on her knees, and then began undoing his pants.

“I said, ‘No, I hate doing this,'” she writes, but Lauer took no notice.

“It will only take a minute,” he reportedly replied.

Nevils says she tried to make excuses, but the news anchor “grew tired of the discussion and pushed my mouth onto his now exposed, erect penis.

“Then there was only getting through it.”

After he finished, Nevils says that Lauer watched Nevils tidy herself off, opened the door for her to leave, and called his assistant’s name.

“I left as though nothing had happened,” she added.

Lauer’s rep did not get back to Page Six when reached for comment.

Nevils filed a complaint with NBC against the then “Today” show co-host in 2017. Several other women also came forward with their own claims.

Lauer was fired within 24 hours and later split from his wife, Annette Roque.

He released a statement expressing remorse for some of his behavior but called his relationship with Nevils “consensual.”

In a recent interview, Nevils slammed Lauer’s characterization.

“Consent and agreement are not synonymous,” Nevils said in her NPR interview. “When one person has power over the other, it’s not really consent. It’s submission.”

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.