Janel Grant made her first public appearance at a briefing for the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence on Thursday, addressing an audience of survivors, legislators, and advocates.  Yuriy T/Getty Images

Grant said that when she decided to file her suit in January 2024, it was at the “last conceivable second” because she knew what it would entail. But she felt as though she had been dragged into federal investigations by the NDA.

“All the things that have happened that have made my life feel so small and isolated. I didn’t start that. It’s like it found me,” she said, before continuing to outline two acts since the lawsuit intended to humiliate her.

“First, during this federal investigation a ‘love letter’ was reportedly found on a corporate laptop and published in the New York Post… This was a public humiliation and intimidation of a person who gets letters from the FBI that say victim, and it’s also witness intimidation discouraging others from speaking out, speaking to, or even associating with me for fear of their own well-being and their families’.”

Then she outlined a storyline that had been noted as carrying striking parallels to Grant’s allegations, which while she did not name was the beginnings of Liv Morgan and Dominik Mysterio’s on-screen pairing.

“Does it look like we work in a safe environment? When the destination point if you’re hurt is weaponized use of your experience on live TV, every Monday night for months. By their actions and their reactions, it says a lot more about current leadership than it does me,” she said.

Repeatedly in her address had she said that there were still employees “living and working in fear” in a headquarters in Connecticut, alluding to WWE’s headquarters. And she also addressed the board of TKO in a call to action.

“To the board of TKO, if you didn’t know this part of your origin story, now you know. I hope you will have conversations with us. I hope you will have conversations amongst yourselves, and I hope you don’t rely on old instincts with new insight… Leadership means stepping into the unknown, listening, and discussing things even when they’re hard. Be willing to take first steps.”