# @wrestlingnewsco on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-09-22T19:56:00.000+00:00
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Janel Grant says she feels forgiveness toward Vince McMahon, and that she nearly didn't survive the day her story broke.

Grant gave her first media interview to POSTWrestling and Wrestlenomics, conducted by John Pollock and Brandon Thurston. Asked what she feels toward McMahon now: "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."

She said what occupies her mind is the chain of events that led to the anonymous emails to WWE's board in 2022, which she denies sending and whose sender has never been identified, and the Wall Street Journal story that followed. She said she was told through her attorney at the time that "Vince feels badly about this." Her first question was whether McMahon was okay.

Grant said she came close to taking her own life the evening the Journal story published on June 15, 2022, and that her then-fiancé stopped her. She then went downstairs and ran a condo board meeting.

She also said her hospitalization six weeks ago, a fall that left her with a concussion and broken ribs, followed days of taking "a series of substances of unknown proportions," and that she is "very lucky to have a pulse right now."

Grant sued McMahon, WWE and John Laurinaitis in January 2024, alleging sexual assault and sex trafficking. McMahon has denied the allegations and described the relationship as consensual. The suit is in private arbitration. WWE and McMahon's representatives did not respond to POST.

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Full interview at POSTWrestling.com.

#JanelGrant #VinceMcMahon #WWE #WrestlingNews

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