Janel Grant on Her Currently Feeling “Forgiveness” Towards Vince McMahon & Her Initial Reaction Over WSJ Story Breaking About Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against McMahon

As noted before, former WWE employee Janel Grant filed a lawsuit in January of 2024 against former WWE/TKO Executive Chairman Vince McMahon accusing McMahon of committing sex trafficking and sexual abuse towards her during her time in the company. Grant filed an amended lawsuit in February of 2025 and a memorandum this past April containing additional details in her allegations against McMahon, WWE President Nick Khan, former WWE Head of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis, Brock Lesnar, and WWE itself. McMahon, Grant, and WWE’s request for the lawsuit to be moved out of the public and into private arbitration was approved this past July and the lawsuit was officially voluntarily dismissed with prejudice that same month.

Post Wrestling’s John Pollock and Brandon Thurston held a recent interview with Grant. One of the topics discussed included Grant’s thoughts about the report from the Wall Street Journal in 2022 that publicly revealed the accusations of sexual misconduct and NDAs hush money payments against McMahon. Grant also gave her thoughts about how her first instinct was to ask about McMahon.

“I asked the attorney a question that I don’t know I ever got an answer [to]. I said, ‘Is he okay?’ Because I thought, if I instantly felt like I might want to not be here anymore, if this was something that maybe my light goes out in life, why wouldn’t he feel the same way, if something’s about to be outed. It’s actually, to be in my body and see the world through my eyes, it’s pretty easy. He’s the only person who can tell me if I’m going to be okay. And what’s going on, like, what just happened? How did this happen? He’s the only person who would know that. That’s how I felt.”

Grant also gave her thoughts about how she currently feels towards McMahon following her journey and lawsuit against McMahon concluding.

“Forgiveness. I don’t know how else to describe it, other than there’s something that does not take up space in my brain. I feel even empathy, because in a weird way, and this is extreme polar opposites, the thing that might… the series of events that caused The Journal story to happen—whatever it was—it equally impacted him… There are so many people involved in [the] decision-making that I can’t sit still and process.

Instead. what occupies my brain is whatever series of events and decision-makers caused the anonymous emails to happen or The Wall Street Journal story to happen, and the events that have played out since, however they have played out. That is what occupies my brain.”