SUMMARY
- On January 25, 2024, Janel Grant took a brave step and filed a lawsuit against Vince McMahon.
- In a 2001 interview with Playboy Magazine, Vince revealed some deep, dark secrets about his life, including his troubled childhood.
Vince McMahon has been amid controversy throughout his career. The 78-year-old businessman has seen big success throughout his career and is often credited with making professional wrestling a global phenomenon. But in all these years, controversy and accusations have never left his side.
The co-founder and former CEO of WWE has been making headlines again for the wrong reasons. In a recent event, former WWE employee Janel Grant took a brave step and filed a lawsuit against Vince McMahon. She filed a complaint with the US District Court of Connecticut.
A woman who received a payout from WWE boss Vince McMahon has accused McMahon, the company and a former executive of sex trafficking in a new lawsuit that raises questions about the breadth of an internal company probe conducted by a law firm last year.
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— Wrestle Ops (@WrestleOps) January 25, 2024
She has accused Vince McMahon of harassing her s*xually and mentally. Janel’s s*x trafficking lawsuit names John Laurinaitis and McMahon as defendants and also mentions the name of the famous WWE superstar Brock Lesnar. Well, people who know Vince are not shocked by the recent events, as he has had an unruly childhood.
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— Wrestling Magazine (@WrestleMagazine) June 12, 2023
In a 2001 interview with Playboy Magazine, Vince McMahon revealed some deep, dark secrets about his life, including his troubled childhood. Vince had been a mess since his teenage years and had “majored in badas*”. When the interviewer asked about his teenage years, McMahon replied about his indiscipline.
He said, “I was totally unruly. Would not go to school. Did things that were unlawful, but I never got caught.” According to him, he was very undisciplined in his teenage years and often broke the law. In the interview, he further explained how he would steal automobiles but bring them back and label his act as borrowing.
Vince McMahon was not fond of his step-father
Vince McMahon grew up in a poor household and was abused as a child by his stepfather. His parents got divorced when he was a kid, and he went to live with his mom, Vicky Askew, and his abusive stepfather, Leo Lupton.
In the same interview with ‘Playboy Magazine’, Vince explained how his father physically abused him and he got beaten a lot as a kid. He was beaten with tools like a pipe wrench, as Leo was an electrician. McMahon has stated that his stepfather was lucky that he died early, as he would have killed him for sure after the years of abuse.
Mr. McMahon was s*xually abused in his childhood
Vince McMahon had a traumatic childhood and had it rough for him during his early years. He was not only beaten physically by his stepfather but was also s*xually absurd by someone whom he preferred not to say.
In his interview with ‘Playboy’, when the interviewer asked Vince if he ever faced s*xual abuse, he replied, “That’s not anything I would like to embellish. Just because it was weird”.
He was further asked if his stepfather did it to him, to which he replied no and that it didn’t happen with a male. The interviewer further asked about the possibility of his mother’s involvement, and Vince replied that it was a pretty close guess.
Janel Grant’s lawsuit has tarnished Vince McMahon’s image among the fans, and as further details come out, it will get more difficult for him. He has already resigned from his positions at WWE and TKO Group.