Janel Grant Shares Graphic Evidence Was Shown Without Her Consent During Board Investigation Against Vince McMahon
Janel Grant gives a new statement.
In July 2022, a report was published by the Wall Street Journal accusing Vince McMahon of sexual misconduct and hush money.
McMahon would retire, a board investigation was launched, and we would later learn that Janel Grant was at the center of many of McMahon’s indiscretions.
On Instagram, Grant shared her side of what went down in 2022 and the fallout from the report.
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.
Janel Grant, a former WWE employee, filed a lawsuit in January 2024 against Vince McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinaitis. The lawsuit accuses McMahon of sexual assault and sex trafficking. McMahon resigned from TKO/WWE following the lawsuit being filed. Laurinaitis has since been dropped from the lawsuit.
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