A girl who alleges she was sexually abused for years by Vince McMahon wrote a gushing love letter to the previous WWE CEO wherein she declared the duo was “in love with a capital L” — and he or she now claims that McMahon coerced to do it, The Put up has realized.
Janel Grant — whose bombshell lawsuit landed a day earlier than the wrestling icon abruptly stepped down as executive chairman of WWE-parent TKO Group Holdings — penned a prolonged e mail to McMahon dated Dec. 24, 2021 wherein she referred to as him “my greatest good friend, my love and my every little thing.”
“After nearly 3 years collectively, it’ like my life isn’t even actual to me except you’re there and in it and I’m sharing all of it with you,” Grant, 43, wrote within the Christmas Eve letter to 78-year-old McMahon obtained by The Put up.
The lovestruck letter stands in distinction to the allegations in her explosive lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal courtroom in January, which claimed that McMahon allegedly defecated on Grant’s head throughout a threesome in Might 2020 — some 18 months earlier than she wrote the alleged love letter.
However Grant’s lawyer, Ann Callis, informed The Put up that McMahon truly instructed Grant to write down the notice.
“Frankly it’s fairly disgusting that Vince’s weeks-late try to defend his horrendous conduct — conduct he claims to at the present time by no means occurred — is to attempt to showcase letters that Vince himself coerced her to write down,” Callis mentioned.
“His psychological torture of her continues — as is typical of abusive predators who reply to girls talking out with elevated threats. Whereas Janel isn’t a stranger to his intimidation ways, this can be a new low even for him.”
Requested in regards to the coercion allegations, McMahon’s lawyer, Jessica Taub Rosenberg of legislation agency Kasowitz Benson Torres, informed The Put up that “that is revisionist historical past. Nobody coerced Ms. Grant to write down that letter. She wrote it of her personal accord. The truth that the letter reveals it was the twenty fourth draft speaks volumes.”
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““Nowhere in her voluminous criticism, that’s replete with fabrications, does she point out being coerced into such conduct. The language of the letter is per different communications she made to Mr. McMahon over the course of their consensual relationship,” Rosenberg added.
In the meantime, a spokesperson for Grant revealed that on Dec. 21, three days earlier than sending the letter, Grant texted McMahon that she had surgical procedure on her pointer finger, saying “I feel I’m tapping out right now.”
Within the alleged textual content trade obtained by The Put up, which was not included in Grant’s lawsuit however alleged as real by a spokesperson for Grant, McMahon responded, “Rattling it. Sorry child,” following it with two coronary heart emojis.
“How will I write your letter?” Grant replied within the textual content thread. “I can sort and skim it…or attempt to write in a pair days,” Grant added. “I’m so sorry if I mess this up, I need you to have a pleasant letter :(“
Grant’s rep, who requested to stay unnamed, additionally mentioned that Grant had written love letters at McMahon’s request so many occasions that she resorted to padding them with current materials from popular culture, together with a GQ interview with Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly revealed two months earlier than Grant’s letter.
Within the GQ piece, for instance, writer Molly Lambert mentioned of the celebs’ relationship: “The carnal part is clearly off the charts, however they can be candy and humorous” — language that was lifted practically word-for-word in Grant’s letter.
“Fox and MGK are in Love, with a capital L,” the story additionally states — one more phrase lifted by Grant.
In one other passage, Grant wrote, “I really feel understood, accepted, beloved and appreciated for who I’m at my core. You see my coronary heart. You see my soul. There are few individuals who know the key of constructing a heaven right here on earth. You’re a type of uncommon individuals.”
Grant’s spokesperson mentioned the sugary-sweet strains have been ripped verbatim from the 1947 movie “The Bishop’s Spouse.”
In her go well with, Grant, a former WWE worker who labored on the firm’s Stamford, Conn., headquarters between June 2019 and March 2022, additionally claimed that McMahon trafficked her to different WWE executives and wrestlers and precipitated bodily accidents “from forceful use of intercourse toys” that were named after male WWE stars.
McMahon — who’s under federal investigation by New York prosecutors over the sexual assault and intercourse trafficking allegations — has denied Grant’s accusations, claiming that their relationship was a consensual affair.
“Ms. Grant’s claims are false, defamatory and fully with out advantage,” McMahon’s lawyer, Taub, additionally informed The Put up on Thursday. “We intend to vigorously defend Mr. McMahon and are assured that he can be vindicated.”
Grant’s rambling, 2,200-word e mail was taken from Grant’s laptop computer as a part of an investigation on behalf of WWE’s board by white-shoe legislation agency Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, and is predicted to look in courtroom filings because the case progresses, in keeping with sources near the scenario.
In line with Grant’s go well with, McMahon and fellow defendant John Laurinaitis — WWE’s former head of expertise relations — sexually abused Grant at WWE’s headquarters for months in 2021. That included allegedly taking turns restraining Grant and having intercourse along with her whereas telling her, “Take it, b—h,” in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
Additionally in 2021, Grant claimed she was pressured to go to Laurinaitis — the stepfather of former WWE stars Nikki and Brie Garcia, the “Bella Twins” — in lodge rooms for intercourse earlier than workdays at McMahon’s command after she was transferred the expertise relations division, the place Laurinaitis served as Grant’s boss.
Laurinaitis — who has also since claimed he is also a victim of McMahon’s actions in a surprising flip towards the ex-WWE honcho — was fired from WWE in 2022 within the wake of a hush cash scandal associated to a $1.5 million nondisclosure settlement purportedly made to an worker who accused him of misconduct in 2012.
At the moment, McMahon was additionally being probed for his personal roughly $3 million hush cash fee and NDA with former staffers. WWE’s eight unbiased administrators employed legislation agency Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to conduct the investigation, throughout which they found Grant’s gushing letter to McMahon obtained by The Put up.
“Whether or not it’s your assistants, a chef, Brad, Nick, Johnny or whoever sees us collectively, I feel it’s simple to them — or anybody who sees us — that we’re in love with a capital L.”
Along with Laurinaitis, sources mentioned Grant gave the impression to be referring to WWE president Nick Khan and COO Brad Blum — recognized in courtroom paperwork as Company Officers No. 1 and a couple of — as those that allegedly witnessed Grant and McMahon “act so sweetly collectively.”
Laurinaitis’ lawyer, Edward Brennan, declined to touch upon the letter, however famous that the 61-year-old ex-pro wrestler, identified within the ring as Johnny Ace, “denies all the allegations made towards him within the criticism and asserts that he’s a sufferer on this matter, not a protagonist.”
Within the December 2021 letter, Grant mentioned the pair “don’t get to spend as a lot time collectively as we’d prefer to.” Grant went on to element her “real love” with McMahon: “I’m one of the best and most genuine model of myself in your presence,” she wrote.
Grant, 43, additionally detailed how she admired McMahon, 78, for being the “most good-looking, radiant, charismatic particular person in any room” in addition to his “eyes with the attractive kaleidoscope of colours and your large lovely susceptible coronary heart.”
Grant concluded the love letter with: “You, Vince McMahon, are THE ONE. For the yesterdays and todays and the tomorrows I can hardly look forward to, thanks my candy beast. My coronary heart is yours — at all times and ceaselessly.”
McMahon, in the meantime, is reportedly married to Linda McMahon, his spouse of practically six many years — although he informed Grant that their marriage was “an association on paper for enterprise functions,” per the go well with.
Representatives for WWE didn’t reply to The Put up’s request for remark.
