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Matt Lauer’s Rape Accuser Rips His Defense As ‘Victim Shaming’

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Matt Lauer’s Rape Accuser Rips His Defense As ‘Victim Shaming’
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On Wednesday evening, Matt Lauer’s rape accuser Brooke Nevils ripped the former NBC daytime news host’s open letter defense, accusing him of “victim blaming.”

“There’s a Matt Lauer that millions of Americans watched on TV every morning for two decades. And there is the Matt Lauer who this morning attempted to bully a former colleague into silence,” Nevils wrote in the statement to NBC News, according to Page Six.

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