Janel Grant Shares Further Details About Allegations Against Vince McMahon, WWE & Brock Lesnar

Within an affidavit in support of a memorandum to oppose Vince McMahon and WWE's motions to compel arbitration, Janel Grant has shared further details about the alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of Vince McMahon, Brock Lesnar, and WWE.

In further details about Vince McMahon - who is accused of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and physical and emotional abuse in Janel Grant's lawsuit against McMahon and WWE - Grant has noted she first met the former WWE CEO on March 23, 2019 as they lived in the same building. At that first meeting, McMahon told Grant he wanted to give her a job and also a life, and that his office would be in touch. According to Grant, McMahon later told her that after she left following their first meeting, McMahon walked to the spot where they spoke, pulled down his pants, and "j*cked off" on the floor.

On May 18, 2019, Janel Grant received a formal job offer from WWE after Vince McMahon worked to ensure a new job was created for her within the company's legal department. After Vince McMahon gifted her tickets to the Belmont Stakes, McMahon allegedly had a "full sexual encounter" with Grant that began with "please don't stop this." Grant noted in the affidavit that she went numb and was unable to make eye contact.

After Grant began working for WWE, she noted: "Things were quickly getting out of hand with Vince. He immediately inserted himself into and consumed all aspects of my life, including my work, personal, and medical life. Although I did not recognize the pattern at the time, in retrospect I see that Vince created my job so he could monitor me and engage in predatory behaviors more easily. He made himself central to my work and personal life, which I wanted to keep separate."

This included between Tuesdays and Thursdays when Vince McMahon would allegedly regularly delay or walk out of meetings in progress to "drive home for sexual gratification and return hours later to HQ."

In 2021, Grant was moved to the talent relations department under John Laurinaitis after it was determined, according to Grant, that she was a corporate liability, and McMahon told her she needed to switch departments as her presence had affected their ability to hire a new general counsel. According to Grant, McMahon told her that Brian Nurse, the company's former general counsel, had suspected or knew about Vince McMahon's relationship with Grant and that Nurse had brought it to the attention of WWE COO Brad Blum. Grant believes the general counsel had identified Vince McMahon's conduct with her as a liability to the executive office and Nurse was subsequently terminated.

Grant also alleged that Vince McMahon had Brad Blum fetch her from talent relations and walk her to the executive office. While she waited on the other side of McMahon's office door, Vince was allegedly offering her sexually to a WWE talent. She later escorted the talent out of WWE HQ before any harm could happen.

Elsewhere in the affidavit, Grant expanded upon her allegations that WWE President Nick Khan enabled Vince McMahon's behaviour. Grant wrote:

"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."

Grant also noted: "While I was being sexually and emotionally abused both at work and after work hours by the CEO of the company, I was aware that his top executives, Nick and Brad, were surveilling my every move and enabling Vince’s abuse."

Janel Grant also went into further detail about how Vince McMahon allegedly directed her to produce "personalized sexual content" and organised sexual encounters between Grant and Lesnar as part of Lesnar's agreement to return to WWE in August 2021.

One day before Brock Lesnar allegedly flew to Connecticut on July 21, 2021 for a "business dinner" and a sexual encounter with Grant at Vince McMahon's condo, Vince McMahon allegedly beat Grant mercilessly to "prepare" her for sexual intercourse with Lesnar. According to Grant, McMahon pinned her down, dragged her around, ripped out her hair, slapped her and fisted her. The arranged sexual encounter with Lesnar did not take place due to Lesnar being too intoxicated.

In August 2021, McMahon allegedly told Grant that he made a bet with Brock Lesnar about "who could physically rip me open the farthest." As part of the bet, McMahon used an unusually large sex toy and used it on Grant as part of a plan to send it to Lesnar. Grant is unaware if the toy was ever sent to Lesnar, however.

On December 17, 2021, Lesnar allegedly texted Grant under the pseudonym of 'Polish Joe.' While backstage at a WWE Raw taping in Chicago, Illinois, Lesnar allegedly texted Grant "show me your meat!!" and texts encouraging her to fly to Chicago. After initially trying to deflect, Grant noted that she "did what I felt was the bare minimum Vince would accept by taking a selfie, nude only from the waist up, and sent it to Brock."

On multiple occasions, Lesnar allegedly sent Grant unsolicited photos of his genitals. After a sexual encounter was arranged for January 2022 and cancelled due to a snowstorm, Lesnar allegedly texted Grant, "I was really looking forward too plowing you tonight!!"

Even after Janel Grant signed the nondisclosure agreement in January 2022, Vince McMahon still allegedly had plans for a sexual encounter between Brock Lesnar and Janel Grant on March 5, 2022 in New York City which didn't take place. Lesnar allegedly continued to contact Grant until March 27, 2022.

Janel Grant also noted in the affidavit that she attempted suicide in April 2021 after transferring from the legal department to work in talent relations. Grant wrote:

"Around the beginning of April, I found myself in such immense emotional and physical plain that I attempted suicide. When I told Vince about the failed attempt, and that I was lucky to be alive, he responded with a voice memo telling me what to do: 'Go knock on Johnny's door in the morning, Ok I'll talk to you later I hope. Ok. Bye.' In line with Vince’s instruction, I again walked to Johnny’s hotel room the next morning to serve myself to him as 'breakfast.' I was instructed to do this on at least five occasions, and I felt I had no other choice."

In the days and weeks leading up to the signing of the nondisclosure agreement, Grant noted that she was sleep-deprived, emotionally and physically distressed, and experiencing suicidal ideations, which McMahon allegedly knew. It is also alleged that within the 19 days of negotiations over the NDA, Grant was not represented by an attorney for 11 of those days. When she signed the NDA on January 28, 2022, Janel Grant sent the document to McMahon but did not tell her own attorney because of instructions from McMahon. When her attorney did receive the NDA, the lawyer explained the paperwork and his own concerns.

As part of the agreement, McMahon agreed to pay Janel Grant $3 million in instalments, but he stopped making the payments after an initial $1 million payment, with McMahon claiming that Grant had leaked information to the press.

This prompted Grant to file a lawsuit against Vince McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinaitis in January 2024. In addition to the allegations against McMahon, Grant accused WWE of trying to sweep the allegations against McMahon under the rug, and John Laurinaitis of sexual assault. An expanded lawsuit was filed in January 2025, and John Laurinaitis was removed as a defendant in May 2025 after agreeing to cooperate with Grant's team.

John Laurinaitis' attorney, Edward M. Brennan, issued the following statement to POST Wrestling after the filing of the affidavit:

"My client has no need to comment on this salacious affidavit. 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."

It has been alleged in the lawsuit that the NDA was not enforceable, citing the Speak Out Act and the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, and that Grant was under duress when she signed the document.

After the filing of Grant's initial lawsuit, Vince McMahon resigned as TKO Executive Chairman, but he remains a shareholder in TKO.