Report: Some WWE Talents Not Repulsed By Allegations Against Vince McMahon
Some WWE talents are not repulsed by Janel Grant's allegations against Vince McMahon
Sep 6, 2024
WARNING: This article contains accounts of alleged sexual assault.
The WWE locker room's reaction to the allegations levelled against Vince McMahon by Janel Grant has been revealed.
According to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, some in the locker room are repulsed by the allegations against McMahon but this point of view isn't universal within the locker room and Meltzer noted that "some are not" repulsed.
Janel Grant accused Vince McMahon of sex trafficking, sexual assault and physical and emotional abuse in a lawsuit filed in January 2024 that also named WWE and John Laurinaitis as defendants. The lawsuit led to Vince McMahon's resignation as TKO Executive Chairman and the former WWE CEO and Chairman has been selling his TKO shares ever since.
Among the allegations, Grant was allegedly subjected to "acts of extreme cruelty and degradation" by McMahon. One such alleged incident involved McMahon defecating on Grant during a threesome and then commanding her to continue pleasuring his "friend" while Grant had faeces in her hair and running down her back. Grant allegedly remained covered in McMahon's faeces for over 90 minutes.
Grant's lawsuit against McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinaitis is currently paused until December 11 while attorneys for the Southern District of New York investigate allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault against McMahon dating back to 1986. The case was paused following a request from the United States Department of Justice.
Cody Rhodes addressed the locker room's thoughts on the lawsuit during the Bash in Berlin press conference, saying:
“In terms of the more serious meat in your question in terms of the locker room being quiet or silent, whatever it may be, I don’t think that is a matter of belief versus non-belief, I think it's strictly speaking…we want to be doing what we were doing out there and the focus and the attention that it takes, you know, 13,149 people to have a great story and have a great match and do that every single night has left most of us where we’re finding the information out just as you are and that includes the resolution of this information in terms of what happened, how it happened, and how justice comes about, whatever it may be. But I wouldn’t look at it as an active attempt from the locker room to be silent in any attempt, we’re just doing what we do day-to-day WWE business.”
