Janel Grant suffered ‘serious accident’ that led to hospitalization

Janel Grant, whose 2024 lawsuit led to Vince McMahon resigning from WWE, recently suffered an accident that caused her to be hospitalized.

In an Instagram post on Monday, Grant shared that she suffered a concussion, broken ribs, and a lung hemorrhage after falling at home in either late July or early August. She has no memory of what happened in the days after her initial fall, but she finally got medical attention after people who reached out sensed that she needed help.

Grant attributed the fall to the “daily atrophy” that her body has gone through over the past four years since her sexual abuse allegations against McMahon were first reported:

• I tripped on the edge of the carpet runner.
• I remember falling. I don’t remember falling for days.
• I was alone.
• My worst fear realized turned out to be my new beginning.
• It took a serious accident to realize the full picture of daily atrophy that’s happened since June 2022.
• Every area of life has been impacted down to my skin and bones; holding a job, support system, safety, mental health, physical strength, finances and stability in everything.
• It took a serious accident to realize how these years of ‘be brave and stay alive’ resemble my dad’s bed-to-chair hospice.
• It was on my walk back to bed that I tripped and fell into a wooden bed frame/wall unit with floating cabinets. I blacked out. I think it happened at the end of July or the start of August.
• I have no memory of the days that followed. I didn’t know I hit my head or that I kept falling. I have no memory from those days of blood trails, bruising, busted body parts and becoming an unrecognizable version of myself.
• My next memory is days later. I was being driven to the hospital out of concern about my well-being.
• I had a concussion, broken ribs, and a lung hemorrhage.
• I remember crying during the information intake. Married? Family? Employer? Insurance? Emergency contact? I didn’t have any of these.

Grant wrote that “everything broke” for her in the moment she was hospitalized. The facility itself caused a flood of memories as it was the same hospital where her father died and the same hospital she used to volunteer at before starting her job with WWE. But despite all of that, Grant is able to see the positive in this situation and says she’s never felt more alive. If this happened a year or two ago, she would have been so disconnected from people that no one would have realized something was wrong:

• Here’s the irony… despite everything in my life breaking, I’ve never felt more alive. I’ve also never believed more in the power of humanity to rally around someone in need.
• I’ve feared an accident happening to either me or my cat because I’m alone. The last few years of chaos in life left only a few people brave enough to maintain any remote presence and answer a phone call.
• If this happened last year or the year before, I can’t think of one person with enough consistent presence in my life who would’ve detected that I was injured and needed go the hospital. Because I have hindsight from years of lived experience, I appreciate how much worse this could’ve been.
• The more I learn and reflect, the more grateful I am for the miracles that have happened in 2026.
• The people who were game-changing, difference-making, life-saving Good Samaritans were not here to witness my injured state but they sensed I needed help. They stopped their lives and listened. Some of them have only had my number for a few months. Regardless of their physical location, they didn’t keep distance. They took action.
• They made calls, cast a net and did things I can’t remember because I concussed. How they treated me in that moment – when I needed help but didn’t know it – reflected what’s in their hearts: compassion, patience and human kindness… THANK YOU.

Janel Grant to receive advocacy award —

Grant is scheduled to be honored next month by the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence, which has named her as one of their Advocacy in Action Award winners for 2026. She has taken on the cause of NDA reform in her advocacy.

The lawsuit Grant filed against McMahon and WWE has been moved to private arbitration as it nears its conclusion.