Vince McMahon and WWE Face New Allegations In Janel Grant Lawsuit

Janel Grant has detailed more allegations against Vince McMahon and WWE in a new legal filing.

In a latest update to her ongoing sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE, Janel Grant released a 40-page declaration on Wednesday, April 1, which provides a first-person perspective of her new allegations. The filing is a formal opposition from her side to the defendants’ attempts to move the case into private arbitration.

In the affidavit, Janel Grant provided more details about the physical and emotional stress she endured, a suicide attempt, further details on interactions with Brock Lesnar, and more allegations of assault against Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis. She also named WWE President Nick Khan in the declaration.

“I felt used, leveraged, humiliated, shamed, dehumanized, intimidated, and exploited for the business and the sexual gratification of these men,” she said.

Janel Grant noted in the filing that the stress she was under during that period caused her to sign an NDA. She doesn’t recall having an arbitration clause in the NDA, nor does she remember discussing it with either Vince McMahon or her attorney. Grant also stated that she had not properly reviewed the NDA and that she did not agree to arbitrate.

Janel Grant said she couldn’t escape from Vince McMahon at work or at home

She noted that her relationship with McMahon became sexual after a meeting with him on May 11, 2019, where she claims, “Vince made his next overtly sexual move and, despite my saying no and to stop, put his hand in my pants. I do not remember what happened next because I blacked out.”

Elsewhere in the declaration, Janel Grant stated that working from home during the pandemic gave Vince McMahon easy access to her, saying she couldn’t escape him at the office or at home.

“In April of 2020, Vince told me that he had prevented my furlough from WWE, even though I was the last-hired employee of the legal department. The order to work from home gave Vince easy access to me, and he started taking real steps to turn his sexual fantasies into reality. With Vince and I working from home in the same building during the height of the COVID19 pandemic, Vince had unlimited access to me to act on his sexual impulses on any day, at any time. I could not escape from him at work or at home.”

Janel Grant also remembers being forced to participate in a threesome with McMahon and his friend.

“On May 9, 2020, I was forced to participate in a threesome with Vince and his “friend,” during which Vince lost control of his bowels on my head. He and his “friend” continued with the threesome while I remained covered in filth and. after his “friend” left, I was instructed to stay and continue to sexually gratify Vince.”

Grant says she felt threatened when WWE announced Nick Khan as the new President

Janel Grant further claimed that she felt threatened after Nick Khan became WWE President in August 2020, calling it the moment that changed her life for the worse.

“In August 2020, Nick Khan was announced as WWE’s new President and Chief Revenue Officer. In hindsight, I view Nick’s arrival as the moment that my life changed for the worse. My fears about reporting the abuse were realized when I learned from Vince that he put the company’s new President, essentially his second in command, on notice of his ongoing sexual conduct with me. Nick never asked me whether the relationship was consensual. Instead, Nick also waited for Vince to finish engaging with me sexually during meetings,” Janel Grant claimed.

She claims McMahon ordered her to serve herself “as breakfast” to John Laurinaitis

“I saw no way out of this, between Vince, Nick, Brad, Johnny, and the corporate plan that dealt with me, followed by Vince’s instructions to walk to my new boss’s hotel room (that WWE paid for) to sexually serve myself to him as “breakfast.” Weeks later, around the beginning of April, I found myself in such immense emotional and physical pain that I attempted suicide,” Janel Grant claims what happened after she got transferred to the Talent Relations department in 2021.

She also recounted multiple instances when she alleges Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis sexually assaulted her, including a time when she was “sandwiched in between them,” while they “forcefully pushed and pulled me and shoved their hands in my dress and up between my legs.”

Brock Lesnar’s alleged role

In the affidavit, Janel Grant noted that she recalls multiple sexual encounters with Brock Lesnar being set up, but ended up not happening due to a variety of reasons, including a snowstorm, him getting too drunk, and Grant finding a way out on other occasions.

She claimed that Vince McMahon beat her up mercilessly to prepare her for Brock Lesnar, and that he “continued to advertise me as part of the deal to convince Brock to sign a new contract and facilitate the exchange of explicit content with Brock.

Janel Grant also noted that in late 2021, Lesnar texted her saying his name was “Polish Joe.” She claims Lesnar asked her to send explicit photos and asked her to travel to Chicago, where WWE RAW was being taped.

“I now understood that I would not only be expected to perform sexually for Brock, but I would also be expected to travel to other states to do so,” she said.

“Brock told me that he was already aware that I worked for WWE … When I began to talk about Talent Relations, he suddenly reacted with rage, expressing both that he hates Talent Relations, especially Johnny, and that he thought I was working in the legal department.”

Janel Grant said she felt trapped in a system of exploitation

In the affidavit, Janel Grant claims Vince McMhon told her that an anonymous informant was leaking information about their relationship. He allegedly insisted on her signing an NDA, saying not doing so would cause “public harm to him, his family and marriage, his empire, my (Grant’s) reputation, and my safety. Life as I knew it would ‘blow up’ unless I signed the NDA, and I would be solely responsible for the consequences.”

She claimed, “This moment of crisis was my breaking point. Terrified and sleep-deprived for multiple consecutive days, I was unable to make sense of anything. I felt I was trapped in a system of exploitation, where anyone could weaponize information about me and blackmail me,” saying the whole ordeal made her suicidal.

Janel Grant said the tight deadline set by McMahon and the immense pressure made her sign the NDA “on January 28, 2022, to avoid the global public humiliation that Vince threatened and the private torture he inflicted.

Grant said she submitted her resignation on February 10 and that Brock Lesnar continued to contact her until March 27, two months after she signed the NDA.

John Laurinaitis’ representative commented on the new allegations in the affidavit

While WWE, TKO, Brock Lesnar, and Vince McMahon didn’t respond to Janel Grant’s new allegations, John Laurinaitis’ attorney, Edward M. Brennan, provided a statement to POST Wrestling.

“My client has no need to comment on this salacious affidavit,” Brennan said on behalf of Laurinaitis. “Anyone can make allegations. Whether those allegations can withstand the harsh sunlight of cross-examination is another matter entirely.”

“I note that after two-plus years of litigation, Mr. Laurinaitis remains the only party exonerated by an independent investigation commissioned by the WWE Board of Directors to review these matters and the only person dismissed, with prejudice, from this lawsuit. Those facts speak louder than any allegations made to buttress a suspect claim.”

Janel Grant had dropped John Laurinaitis as a defendant in her lawsuit in May 2025 after the latter agreed to provide evidence against Vince McMahon.