Matt's Ex Finally Speaks - My Side Of The Story

As more ugly accusations fly against Matt Lauer, sources close to ex Annette Roque reveal the hell he put her through

- Jaime Harkin

Annette Roque has always been a woman of few words. Throughout the very public demise of her marriage to disgraced Today host Matt Lauer, who was fired by NBC amid sexual misconduct allegations in 2017, the former model remained tight-lipped and poised. As the estranged couple hammered out the details of their multimillion-dollar divorce, which was finalized in September, Roque retreated even deeper into her quiet life as a dedicated stay-at-home mom to the couple’s three children in the Hamptons.

But with new and shocking accusations being leveled at her ex — Lauer’s former NBC News colleague Brooke Nevils alleges that he raped her in a hotel room while they were covering the 2014 Sochi Olympics, a claim he strenuously denies — the long-suffering ex-wife, 52, is finally lifting the lid on the torment she endured during their 20-plus-year union. “Annette wanted out of the marriage for a long time,” an insider reveals to Us. “She stayed for Matt’s career — and, more important, for their kids,” Jack, 18, Romy, 16, and Thijs, 12. “But in the past five years, she’s been through hell.”