Vince McMahon accuser Janel Grant says “explicitly graphic evidence was produced to a special committee” without her consent
It was reported by The Wall Street Journal in January of 2024 that Janel Grant, a former WWE employee, filed a lawsuit against WWE and Vince McMahon in a Connecticut federal court. McMahon was accused of sex trafficking in the complaint.
In a post via Instagram, Grant noted the following about the 2022 hush money and sexual misconduct allegations that led to Vince “retiring” from WWE…
“What I know: In 2022, I believed in good faith that I was participating in a company’s publicly announced investigation. I spent six figures on retainers and medical care. I onboarded a legal team. We spent months of time preparing for an investigation that closed without speaking to me.
What I didn’t know: I learned some things about my past that I didn’t know before while reading public documents from a shareholder’s case.
Without my knowledge and without my consent, explicitly graphic evidence was produced to a special committee as part of this investigation. These photos and exchanges, described in plurals, depict me in some vulnerable and/or compromising way.
The nature of this evidence? Descriptors in documents include ‘s*xual’
‘very graphic language and photos’, ‘something that looks more like s*xual abuse’
‘tr*fficking’, ‘nefarious’ and…
Without my knowledge and without my consent, this evidence was duced, viewed, distilled into graphic summaries, and read out to then current members of the Board of Directors, including some in positions of upper management, and future board members.
I didn’t know any of this until now.
Nobody told me. Nobody told my attorneys (despite the active communications between attorneys). Put aside not speaking with me…
• Why weren’t we notified that this was produced?
• Why were we not told how it was being used?
• Who saw this evidence?
• Who got read outs?
• Where are copies of these images and read outs saved?
Why am I sharing this? 1 don’t want anything remotely like this to happen to anyone else. To see this gives us the ability to clear it, heal from it, address the systems/cultures that enabled it, and create holistic solutions to better support and protect the rights of people.
Safety matters. Dignity matters. How we treat each other matters.”