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Mcmahon accuser claims ‘love letter’ coerced

- DAN BILICKI

There’s no love lost in the ongoing legal battle between EXWWE CEO Vince Mcmahon and a former employee who alleges he sexually abused her for years.

In a letter written by Janel Grant — the ex-employee who dropped the bombshell lawsuit on Mcmahon last year — and obtained by the New York Post, she said that the couple was “in love with a capital L” and that Mcmahon was her “best friend, my love and my everything.”

“After almost 3 years together, it’s like my life isn’t even real to me unless you’re there and in it and I’m sharing it all with you,” Grant wrote in the Dec. 24, 2021, letter to Mcmahon.

However, Grant’s attorney, Ann Callis, said that Grant was told by Mcmahon to write the note.

“Frankly it’s pretty disgusting that Vince’s weeks-late attempt to defend his horrendous behavior — behaviour he claims to this day never happened — is to try to showcase letters that Vince himself coerced her to write,” Callis told the Post.

“His psychologi­cal torture of her continues — as is typical of abusive predators who respond to women speaking out with increased threats. While Janel isn’t a stranger to his intimidati­on tactics, this is a new low even for him.”

The letter is a stark contrast to the claims in Grant’s suit against Mcmahon – who abruptly stepped down as the head of WWE a day before the complaint was filed – in which she claims that he trafficked her to other WWE executives and wrestlers and caused physical injuries “from forceful use of sex toys” that were named after male WWE stars.

She also alleges that Mcmahon defecated on her head during a threesome in 2020.

In response to the allegation­s of coercion over the letter, Mcmahon’s attorney, Jessica Taub Rosenberg, told the Post that “this is revisionis­t history. No one coerced Ms. Grant to write that letter. She wrote it of her own accord. The fact that the letter shows it was the 24th draft speaks volumes.”

Rosenberg added that Grant did not mention this coercion in her suit against Mcmahon.

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