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Janel Grant asks WWE to waive NDAs and give others the opportunity to come forward
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Janel Grant asks WWE to waive NDAs and give others the opportunity to come forward

Lawyers representing Janel Grant are calling on WWE to release the company's former or current employees/contractors from non-disclosure agreements.

Waiver or non-enforcement of these NDAs would allow other potential victims with similar allegations to come forward.

Grant's team emailed the request Monday night to WWE lawyers as well as attorneys representing Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis, the Associated Press reports. At this time they have not received a response. However, a spokesman for Vince McMahon declined to comment.

According to a July 2022 Wall Street Journal report, four additional women, all previously affiliated with WWE, have signed NDAs prohibiting them from discussing their relationships with McMahon. According to her representatives, Grant was not among the women mentioned in the WSJ report.

Two prominent examples of similar requests being granted include Weinstein Co. releasing former employees and others from NDAs related to claims against Harvey Weinstein in 2018 and NBC Universal doing the same in 2019 regarding claims against “Today host Matt Lauer did.

“If WWE and its parent company Endeavor are serious about parting ways with Vince McMahon and the toxic workplace culture he created, their executives should have no problem releasing former WWE employees from their NDAs,” said Ann Callis, Grants lawyer, in a statement. “This is the first step in cleaning up a company that covered up sexual assault and human trafficking for decades.”

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