WWE Response
The entire thread is here, but I warn you it's horrifying to read. To sum it up for anyone who chooses not to, Ashley Massaro, a former WWE wrestler, was drugged and raped by a male US servicemember during an overseas WWE tour to the Middle East, with the help of a female soldier who guarded the door. She was injected with a substance that caused her to not be able to move or resist in any way. Upon this coming to light, Vince McMahon and others in the WWE told her to not go forward with what happened as it would make the military look bad and harm the WWE's relationship with the military.
This was made public as early as 2016 I believe, I had never heard about it, I don't think it got much attention. In light of her death by suicide, and the other actions WWE has been taking like featuring a performer with an openly racist past (Lars Sullivan, also Hulk Hogan), and doing business in Saudi Arabia, I hope this now gains some traction and she is able to receive some semblance of justice.
WWE has responded it seems.
We reached out to WWE about the 2006 affidavit that included a claim by Ashley Massaro that she was sexually assaulted in 2006 while on tour in Kuwait. WWE issued the following response:
"WWE is saddened by the death of Ashley Massaro, and we reiterate our condolences to her family. However, we regret that her attorney Konstantine Kyros, who filed multiple cases against WWE, lost all of them, and was sanctioned multiple times by the Court for repeated misconduct and false allegations, is using Ashley's death to further his malicious campaign against WWE by releasing an affidavit that she submitted to the Court and later apologized to WWE for being involved with, so we wish to make certain things crystal clear.
1. At no time was Vince McMahon or the management of WWE ever informed by Ashley Massaro or anybody else that she had been sexually assaulted, drugged, raped or sodomized by a military doctor with a nurse standing guard while on a goodwill tour in 2007 to U.S. military bases in Kuwait. In fact, if she ever articulated such a claim to WWE, we would have reported it immediately to the Base Commander.
2. At no time was there ever a meeting with Vince McMahon, Kevin Dunn, John Laurinaitis or other company executives in which she told them of such a claim and was instructed to keep it quiet."
https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/w...ssault-claims-made-in-2016-by-ashley-massaro/
The entire thread is here, but I warn you it's horrifying to read. To sum it up for anyone who chooses not to, Ashley Massaro, a former WWE wrestler, was drugged and raped by a male US servicemember during an overseas WWE tour to the Middle East, with the help of a female soldier who guarded the door. She was injected with a substance that caused her to not be able to move or resist in any way. Upon this coming to light, Vince McMahon and others in the WWE told her to not go forward with what happened as it would make the military look bad and harm the WWE's relationship with the military.
This was made public as early as 2016 I believe, I had never heard about it, I don't think it got much attention. In light of her death by suicide, and the other actions WWE has been taking like featuring a performer with an openly racist past (Lars Sullivan, also Hulk Hogan), and doing business in Saudi Arabia, I hope this now gains some traction and she is able to receive some semblance of justice.
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