Tanya Mosley

Our guest today is Brooke Nevels.

Her new memoir is Unspeakable Things.

Silence, shame, and the stories we choose to believe.

We'll be right back after a short break.

I'm Tanya Mosley, and this is Fresh Air.

You went to Meredith Vieira, who had been your boss for many years, and she told you to go to HR with a lawyer.

And you did that also knowing what reporting would cost you.

You couldn't live with this anymore.

You felt like you were a fraud.

You were drowning in your own addiction.

But you also describe it as committing career suicide, that your career in this industry that you had grown up wanting to be a part of was essentially over.

And you decided to do it anyway.

You know, Brooke, there's an assumption in journalism that when you help someone tell their story, you're serving them and you're serving the greater good, the public.

And you believe that in the work that you did as a producer.

You yourself got to know sexual assault and rape victims through your journalism experience.

through building trust with them.

You thought you were on their side.

And I wonder, how did your view of that work change once you were the one being interviewed?

You said that you'd been so focused.

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