The lawyer who represents a former WWE worker who claims she was sexually abused and trafficked by Vince McMahon said the “depravity” her client endured over time is “in its own class.”
Ann Callis, an attorney for ex-WWE staffer Janel Grant, said she previously worked for nine years as a criminal felony judge overseeing murder and sexual assault cases, however the horrors that her client suffered at McMahon’s hands are incomparable to anything she’s encountered in her profession.
“The sexual slavery she endured, the devastating consequences that happened to her physically and mentally when she was going through this and still is suffering through this with PTSD — she had suicidal ideation,” Callis told NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield.
“That is in its own class of the depravity that she needed to endure.”
Grant, who worked in the corporate’s legal and talent departments, alleged that McMahon forced her to have sex with WWE icons and executives, defecated on her during a threesome and aggressively used sex toys on her that he named after wrestling stars, which caused her injuries, in response to the bombshell suit filed Thursday in Connecticut federal court.
Along with McMahon, Grant, 43, also named John Laurinaitis, the corporate’s former head of talent relations and general manager, within the 67-page suit, alleging the pair took turns holding her down for one another while sexually assaulting her at WWE offices in June 2021.
Ann Callis, an attorney for Janel Grant who previously was a a criminal felony judge, said the sexual abuse her client endured at McMahon’s hands is in “its own class.” Getty Images
Janel Grant has PTSD and experienced suicidal ideation, in response to her attorney.
McMahon allegedly forced Grant to have sex with WWE icons and executives and defecated on her after a threesome. Getty Images
The explosive court filing followed the Wall Street Journal reporting last 12 months that WWE was probing an alleged $3 million payment McMahon gave to a female worker who left after a consensual affair.
Grant, who was not named within the report, claims within the suit she received a $1 million installment after signing an NDA, but no further payments.
A subsequent investigation found that McMahon shelled out $14.6 million to varied women who had accused him of sexual misconduct.
McMahon has denied the allegations within the suit, but announced Friday that he was stepping down as executive chairman of WWE’s parent company, TKO Group Holdings.
TKO Group, which was created in September when UFC and WWE merged, has said it’s taking the allegations seriously and addressing them internally.
