Becky Lynch is one of a handful of WWE stars who’ve already been asked about the allegations of sexual abuse made against Vince McMahon in the lawsuit filed in January on behalf of former WWE employee Janel Grant against McMahon, John Laurinaitis & the company itself.
Previously, Lynch responded to a question about whether she felt safe at WWE after learning of the accusations in Grant’s suit. Now doing press to support the forthcoming release of her autobiography, Becky was asked by Marc Haynes of the Irish Independent is she’s been able to reconcile the shocking stories we’ve now heard about McMahon with the person she worked with for years, including closely during her 2018 rise as “The Man” to become one of WWE’s most popular acts
She replied:
“I don’t know that person, you know what I mean? That’s been hard for me. We didn’t always see eye-to-eye, but especially in my last run with him there, and when I told him I was pregnant, he was so good to me. Apart from the run-ins — but you have run-ins in every relationship, especially at that level — I only ever had a wonderful experience in WWE with Vince, for the most part.
“So it’s very hard to reconcile that somebody else didn’t have that experience, and that other women didn’t have that experience. Especially when I had him to thank for my dream, for my husband [fellow WWE star Seth Rollins], for my daughter, for the life that I have now. It’s hard to see those two different people in my head, and trying to merge them as one becomes very difficult. You’re reading these horrific allegations, but about somebody that you look up to as very much almost like a father figure.
“So you have to listen to these things and that becomes very difficult, because you’ve had no [negative] experience and you want everybody to have the experience that you’ve had, because I would always love my interactions with him, and that becomes very, very difficult, especially as a woman who has been so driven in changing the way that women are treated in wrestling and making sure that it is a safe space, that we are seen as athletes, that we are taken seriously, that we are appreciated for our minds, for our body of work, and for what we do in the ring.”
McMahon denies the allegations, but did resign from WWE and its parent company TKO shortly after they became public. No other changes at WWE have been publicly attributed to Grant’s suit or subsequent reporting on the toxic culture there under McMahon.
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