Vince McMahon’s departure from WWE has been well publicized over the last few years as Vince had to officially step away from the company after Janel Grant filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual misconduct. The lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE has been ongoing for some time now, but back in July, Janel Grant agreed to move the lawsuit into private arbitration.
During a recent interview with POST Wrestling, Janel Grant discussed The Wall Street Journal breaking the story of the NDA between herself and Vince McMahon in 2022, and it was noted that the outlet started contacting people close to her in May of that year. She later learned that the story would be breaking on June 15th, 2022. Grant also said that at the time she was told by her attorney, “that Vince feels badly about this. So it’s like being instantly the loneliest person on the planet.”
She then went on to claim that her first instinct was to ask about Vince when she added, “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.”
Janel Grant was also asked what she feels toward Vince McMahon today, and she said, “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.”