During the first Emmys ceremony held in post-#MeToo Hollywood in 2018, co-host Colin Jost joked that one of the scariest things a network executive can possibly hear is, “Sir, Ronan Farrow is on Line 1.”

That also could be the scariest thing Matt Lauer has heard lately — at least since November 28, 2017. On that date, Lauer received a visit at his Manhattan apartment from NBC chairman Andy Lack, who told him he was being fired from his lucrative, longtime gig hosting “Today” because the network received a complaint that he had sexually harassed a female colleague.

But after Lauer’s firing, several other women came forward to allege in media reports that the popular morning news anchor, 61, engaged in a disturbing pattern of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Now comes a report from the New York Post that the initial accuser, as well as “a number of women” with “fresh” claims against Lauer, have spoken to Farrow for his new book, “Catch and Kill.”

“A number of women with new claims spoke with Ronan,” a source told the New York Post.

The book builds on the reporting Farrow did for the New Yorker on the multiple sexual assault allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men. The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on Weinstein, by Farrow and by the New York Times, helped set in motion the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.

Lauer’s initial accuser has made the decision to come forward and name herself in Farrow’s new book, the New York Post is reporting. The Post earlier revealed that the woman is a former assistant to Lauer’s former “Today” co-anchor Meredith Vieira. It is believed she no longer works at NBC, the Post said.

NBC sources have long characterized the woman’s relationship with Lauer as an “affair,” which began when they were both working on coverage for the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, the Post said.

But Ari Wilkenfeld disputed that characterization in an interview with the New York Post, saying, “At no point in time, did I say or do anything to encourage NBC to downplay my client’s allegations. We clearly indicated an absence of consent.”

Meanwhile, other women have spoken to Farrow about Lauer for his book, though it is not clear how many. But the Post said it is believed there are new allegations.

“A number of women with new claims spoke with Ronan,” a source told the Post.

The book will be published Oct. 15. According to publisher Little, Brown and Company, the book details “the exotic tactic of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability and silence victims of abuse. And it’s the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth.”

Ahead of the book’s publication, Lauer has hired a team of high-powered lawyers, the Post said. However, Lauer and his attorneys probably already know what’s in the book because they were given the opportunity to comment when contacted by Farrow’s fact-checker, the Post added.

“These survivors have bravely made the decision on their own terms to come forward in the context of this book’s reporting,” a source told the Post.

Shortly after Lauer was fired, the New York Times and Variety published accounts by women who detailed how the anchor exposed himself to a female colleague, forced himself on women during ostensibly work-related meetings in his office or in hotel rooms, and generally used his position at his workplace to silence victims and stay in power.

According to one particularly notable allegation described in Variety, Lauer had a button under his desk at his office in 30 Rockefeller Plaza that allowed him to lock his door from the inside. The purpose, according to Variety, was to allow Lauer to invite a woman into his office and make a move on her without other people walking in.

So far, Addie Zinone, a former production assistant on “Today,” is the only one of Lauer’s accusers to publicly identify herself. She came forward in a piece she published in Variety in December 2017 to allege she had a consensual but damaging one-month relationship with Lauer in 2000.

Zinone wrote that she was 24 and he was in his 40s.

“He went after the most vulnerable and the least powerful — and those were the production assistants and the interns,” Zinone wrote. “He understood that we were going to be so flattered and so enthralled by the idea that the most powerful man at NBC News is taking any interest in us.”

Lauer’s firing and his fall from grace prompted his wife Annette Roque to file for divorce after 20 years of marriage and three children. Page Six reported earlier this month that Lauer and Roque had finalized their divorce. Their settlement gives Roque up to $20 million and the couple’s Hamptons horse farm in Water Mill.

In 2018, Lauer released a statement in which he conceded he “acted inappropriately,” but denied ever forcing himself on anyone.

“I have made no public comments on the many false stories from anonymous or biased sources that have been reported about me over these past several months,” Lauer said. “I remained silent in an attempt to protect my family from further embarrassment and to restore a small degree of the privacy they have lost. But defending my family now requires me to speak up.”

He continued, “I fully acknowledge that I acted inappropriately as a husband, father and principal at NBC. 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.”