Brooke Nevels

Well, I talked to nearly two dozen experts.

I talked to people who have been through sexual harassment and assault, people who have been accused of sexual harassment and assault.

I spoke with someone in prison on a sexual assault charge.

I cared very deeply to try and understand all sides of this

issue and why this continues to happen.

And it took me some time.

It was very hard to really be able to see it because when you're in it, you can't see it at all.

And it took me a long time to get to a point where I could

approach this honestly and ask and answer the kind of hard questions that I felt needed to be asked.

At the height of Me Too, when I made the complaint, I remember in the aftermath of that, I would sit in the trainings and I felt afraid to ask questions.

It felt like if you had these questions, you were part of the problem or you were complicit.

And here I was in the

became one of the highest profile stories of the Me Too era.

And I had these questions, and I was afraid to ask them.

So I felt we needed some time and distance to be able to really speak honestly about these things.

Sure.

I was...

One of those kids who grew up watching the Today Show every morning before school.

I grew up in St.

Louis, and when Today would come on and you heard that opening music, it felt like you were transported to the center of the world where everything was happening.