In January 2024, former WWE employee Janel Grant filed a lawsuit against WWE, former Chairman Vince McMahon, and former executive John Laurinaitis, alleging sexual assault and trafficking. Following the lawsuit, McMahon, who denied the allegations, stepped down as Chairman of WWE and resigned from his position as Executive Chairman of the Board for WWE’s parent company, TKO.

In an interview with John Pollock for POST Wrestling, Janel Grant discussed various topics, including her instinct to inquire about McMahon’s well-being when the allegations first emerged in 2022.

This is what Janel Grant said, “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.”

On why she had concern for McMahon in light of her allegations against him:

“It’s actually, to be in my body and see the world through my eyes, it’s pretty easy. He’s the only person who can tell me if I’m going to be okay. And what’s going on, like, what just happened? How did this happen? He’s the only person who would know that. That’s how I felt.”

On how she feels about 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, 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.”