Janel Grant released a statement through social media, commenting on the anonymous emails that were sent to WWE’s Board of Directors in 2022 that served as the catalyst into the ongoing investigation of sexual abuse against former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon as well as former executive John Laurinaitis.
In a series of images, Grant insisted that not only did sh not send the anonymous emails which tipped off the Board, but that she was not involved them in any way:
Anonymous Emails
Reading these for the first time took a sledgehammer to my mental health. I feel like a Taylor Swift lyric and wonder if omeone caged me just to call me crazy. I’m not wired to understand why someone would write them. But I am rtained to notice the use of hair splitters and spin.
What happened before 2019:
While caring for my parents – two sets of illness, medical debt, hospitalizations – they declared bankruptcy and we lost our family home. Life was such a disaster that Hurricane Sandy dropped a tree on the house that we were in the process of losing.
What never happened: No living on the street. No addictions to “percs.” No rehab. There is no person who knew me in life pre-dating 2019 who could write this.
The spin: A friend? I see a trick to steer public perception.
Homeless? I shared my background at work. Rehab? I shared my experience with grief counseling at work.
Addiction? I shared that quitting nicotine lozenges wasn’t fun at work. A threat to expose info? It’s a highly reactive environment with security vendors in place. The rest of the email? It repackages years of time and illogical events involving a lot of people who have eyeballs into a logic sounding storyline with only a few people. This email doesn’t contain allegations. This email is a storyline.
Who sent this? I don’t know. But public documents show a reimbursement of $20,098,000 in legal costs related to a special committee’s investigation on 3/19/23.
About Anonymous Emails 2 and 3
I’m pretty sick over whether this is implying a revenge porn situation and whether it extends to Deadspin. A media company. I’m sick over whether this is implying I was being filmed and didn’t know it. I’m sick over whatever it is that I don’t know.
Grant went onto also post some redacted screenshots of the emails themselves where the anonymous person basically claims that Vince McMahon gave Grant a job, began abusing her and then gave her hush money while also passing her along to Laurinaitis. The emails also indicated that Vince and “Jerry” (attorney Jerry McDevitt) paid her millions of dollars after Grant quit before promising that they would be going to the media.
In subsequent redacted screenshots, the anonymous person further threatens the Board that they will be going to the media with the story while also hinting that they have already involved Deadspin and shared the photos of the sexual abuse that McMahon and Laurinaitis allegedly participated in.