Janel Grant is putting WWE’s 2022 Vince McMahon investigation back under the microscope, and this time she is not talking about a vague corporate probe. She says graphic evidence involving her was passed around, summarized and read to WWE board members without her knowledge or consent.
Grant posted the update on Instagram after going through public documents from a shareholder case. She said she originally believed she was going to take part in WWE’s publicly announced investigation, but that never happened. Instead, she says she spent serious money getting ready for an investigation that closed without anyone ever speaking to her.
“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.”
Then came the part Grant says she did not know at the time. She claims she learned from public documents that explicit material involving her was produced to WWE’s special committee during that same investigation.
“I learned some things about my past that I didn’t know before while reading public documents from a shareholder’s case.”
Grant said the evidence was not just some dry legal filing. She said it included graphic photos and exchanges that showed her in vulnerable or compromising situations, and she says nobody asked her permission before using it.
“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.”
Grant also pointed out the way the material was described in the documents, and the words she listed were brutal.
“The nature of this evidence? Descriptors in documents include ‘sexual,’ ‘very graphic language and photos,’ ‘something that looks more like sexual abuse,’ ‘trafficking,’ ‘nefarious’ and…”
That was not the end of it. Grant said the material was viewed, turned into graphic summaries and read out to people tied to WWE’s board, including then-current board members, upper management and future board members.
“Without my knowledge and without my consent, this evidence was produced, 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.”
Grant said she only learned about all of this now, and she made it clear that neither she nor her attorneys were told while WWE’s investigation was happening.
“I didn’t know any of this until now.”
“Nobody told me. Nobody told my attorneys.”
Grant’s lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE includes allegations of sexual assault, sex trafficking and abuse. McMahon has denied the allegations. Grant is now calling out how WWE’s own investigation allegedly handled explicit evidence involving her, who saw it, who heard about it, and where those copies or summaries may be now.
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