After she found herself "drunk and alone," Nevils claims Lauer "insist[ed] on having a--- s--" in a "spinning room" with her body "unsteady" and her mind "blurred [and] frantic." "I would never have used the word 'rape' to describe what happened [next]," Nevils writes. … It would take years – and a national reckoning with sexual harassment and assault – before I called what happened to me assault." Nevils states that at the time she had "no idea what to call what happened other than weird and humiliating. It hurt to walk.