Ann Curry says she warned NBC about Matt Lauer's alleged sexual harassment in 2012 — 5 years before his firing

• Former "Today Show" cohost Ann Curry told The Washington Post this week that she warned NBC executives about sexual harassment from Matt Lauer in 2012.
• Curry told The Post that she complained to two NBC executives after a female "Today Show" staff member told her that Lauer "sexually harassed her, physically."
• An NBC spokesman told The Post that the network had no record of Curry's warning.

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Former "Today Show" cohost Ann Curry told The Washington Post this week that she warned NBC executives about sexual harassment from Matt Lauer in 2012, five years before he was fired in November for alleged misconduct.

Curry told The Post that she complained to two NBC executives, whom she didn't name, after a female "Today Show" staff member told her that Lauer "sexually harassed her, physically."

"A woman approached me and asked me tearfully if I could help her," Curry said. "She was afraid of losing her job."

Curry said she didn't reveal the woman's name to NBC's management at the woman's request. "I told management they had a problem and they needed to keep an eye on him and how he deals with women," she said.

The NBC staffer confirmed to The Post that she went to Curry with her complaint, but asked that the publication not reveal her name.

An NBC spokesman told The Post that the network had no record of Curry's warning. NBC did not respond immediately to a request for further comment from Business Insider.

In January, Curry said on "CBS This Morning" that she was "not surprised by the allegations" that resulted in Lauer's firing, but she had not spoken publicly about what she specifically knew about Lauer's misconduct until she spoke to The Post this week.

Lauer responded for the first time to the allegations that resulted in his firing last year in the same Post article published Thursday.

"I fully acknowledge that I acted inappropriately as a husband, father and principal at NBC," Lauer said. "However I want to make it perfectly clear that any allegations or reports of coercive, aggressive or abusive actions on my part, at any time, are absolutely false." 

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