Posted on 2/20/126 by Colin Vassallo
An emotional Janel Grant took the stage at the Connecticut
Alliance Survivors Speak Event yesterday and delivered a
rare 15-minute public speech.
Grant, who is the subject a big lawsuit against Vince
McMahon, WWE, and others, was there as survivors, advocates,
legislators, and state leaders gathered to call on the
legislature to codify the federal Prison Rape Elimination
Act into state law and reform state non-disclosure agreement
policies which are used to silence survivors.
“I really shouldn’t be here. By a series of miracles that I
can’t account for, I’m alive today,” Grant said to open her
speech. “On June 15 of 2022, my life was rewritten into
someone else’s storyline. And I was globally outed in the
Wall Street Journal.”
Grant detailed the tumultuous time she had following the WSJ
story, with requests from WWE that she declined to take. She
spoke about the NDA she had signed and how she was given the
status of a whistleblower by the Securities and Exchange
Commission after the federal criminal investigation into
Vince McMahon took place.
She said that she got the subpoena and status a couple of
days before Vince McMahon and Endeavor’s Ari Emanuel
appeared on CNBC together to announce the sale of WWE.
“Color me the most surprised person on planet Earth,” Grant
said regarding the news.
Her speech closed with a message to TKO and its leadership.
“To the board of TKO, if you didn’t know this part of your
origin story, now you know. I hope you will have
conversations with us. I will hope you have conversations
amongst yourselves, and I hope that you don’t rely on old
instincts with new insight,” Grant said. “All of you have
some say in how my life turns out from here, including how
quickly I may be able to move on and find help and healing.”