Brooke Nevels

And at that point, we had been in Sochi for months.

Weeks, Sochi was a pretty small Olympics.

It was a small team there.

So we had camaraderie.

And when Matt came in, he isn't typically a person that you bump into around town that joins you.

And so we saw him, we were celebrating, and he came over and sat with us.

And I felt like

It couldn't possibly be real.

These were two people that I had admired as journalists, as people since I was a little girl.

And I truly could not believe I was sitting there with a seat at the table with them.

And I think I got carried away.

And when you say you got carried away, what do you mean?

Well, now I'm a boring mom in my 40s.

So when I say that I had too much to drink, you look back at your 20s and I can't believe that I was having a glass of wine.

And when we were celebrating, we're in Russia, you know, Matt ordered some vodka shots and I did them.

I did them without even thinking about it because I was celebrating.

I was having fun.

It just seemed like this thing that could not even be real.

And I was so honored to be there that, you know, I threw caution to the wind.

What was important to me was to acknowledge how complicated it was, how confusing it was, how I came to be in that room in the first place.