Lance Storm rips Vince McMahon over ‘disgusting’ sex-abuse scandal: ‘I hope there’s criminal charges’
NY Post
Retired WWE pro wrestler Lance Storm weighed in on “disgusting” claims that Vince McMahon sexually abused a female staffer, including with sex toys that he named after wrestling stars, per a bombshell lawsuit filed Thursday.
“Look, I was one of the few that said he needed to be gone when the story first broke,” Storm said of a Wall Street Journal report from 2022, when it was first revealed WWE was investigating payouts to multiple women who had alleged sexual misconduct.
McMahon had briefly retired as WWE’s chairman and CEO in July 2022, but returned as the executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings, WWE’s parent company, in January 2023.
“I was outspoken against him being allowed back in the office, being allowed back in shows,” Storm told “Wrestling Observer Live” co-host Bryan Alvarez on Thursday, adding that he boycott WWE programming upon McMahon’s return to an executive role in 2023.
“That’s classic sexual predator stuff — find someone down on their luck and start grooming them and bending them to your will,” Storm added of the explosive lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court this week, which names one of the women that allegedly received a payout from McMahon.
Janel Grant broke her silence in the court documents, which revealed that McMahon’s use of sex toys on her caused injuries such as bruising and bleeding.
