Janel Grant revealed on Instagram Monday that she was hospitalized after a serious fall at her home in late July or early August, suffering a concussion, broken ribs, and a lung hemorrhage.
Grant wrote that she tripped on a carpet runner near her bed and fell into a wooden bed frame and wall unit on her way back to bed, blacking out on impact. She has no memory of the days that followed, including the blood trails, bruising and injuries that accumulated while she was alone, and only learned the extent of the damage when she was driven to the hospital days later by people who had grown concerned for her wellbeing.
Grant, whose January 2024 lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE led to McMahon’s resignation, tied the accident to what she called the “daily atrophy” her job, support system, mental health, physical strength and finances have gone through since June 2022. She wrote that those years of trying to “be brave and stay alive” came to resemble the bed-to-chair hospice care she once watched her father go through.
Grant said she cried through the hospital’s intake questions, unable to answer whether she was married or had family, an employer, insurance or an emergency contact. She described sitting behind a curtain alone on morphine before the moment “everything broke” and she grieved all of it at once.
She noted the hospital holds deeper history for her beyond the fall. It’s where her father died, and where she later volunteered under the nickname “JJ” while job hunting, a role that once had her standing at the foot of patient beds helping them get dressed, the same position she found herself in as a patient this time. She left that volunteer post in 2019 to take a job with WWE.
Despite the injuries, Grant framed the experience as a positive turning point, writing that she has “never felt more alive” and crediting friends, some of whom have only had her number for a few months, with coordinating her care while she was too concussed to remember it herself. She said she’s looking forward to attending an event with “the Alliance” next month.
The revelation comes weeks after Grant’s federal lawsuit against McMahon and WWE was dismissed and moved into private arbitration, a process that will play out confidentially and is expected to end in a settlement.
