Newly revealed statement from Ashley Massaro on Vince McMahon 'sexually preying on female wwe stars'

The statement was given by Massaro before her 2019 death by apparent suicide as her lawyers were working on a sworn affidavit in which she said she was raped at a military base in Kuwait while on a WWE tour, and that WWE management covered it up.
The attorneys left the statement out of the affidavit at the time because “it wasn’t relevant to central claims in the lawsuit in which they were representing her”.

The statement was as follows (via VICE News):
During my time with the WWE, I had observed Vince McMahon making-out with other divas in the locker room, but he never paid attention to me, and I assumed I was not his type. This changed after my Playboy cover was released.
I was fortunate enough to be allowed to fly on the company jet and stay at the same hotels as the executives for a period of time so that I could get home faster to spend more time with my daughter.
On one of these occasions, Vince was attempting to get me alone with him in his hotel room late at night and I felt extraordinarily uncomfortable. He began calling the hotel room phone and my cell phone nonstop. I called Kevin Dunn to explain the situation and he said I should tell Vince I was not feeling well and would see him on TV the next day, so I did.

Immediately after that night, Vince started writing my promos for me. Vince does not write promos for female wrestlers—that is the job of the creative department—and he certainly wouldn’t have, under any normal circumstances, written a promo for me. But he did, and the promos were written with the clear intention of ruining my career.
I brought the first script Vince wrote for me to the WWE employee in charge of Creative at the time, Michael Hayes, and he said, ‘you’re not saying this, who the [expletive] wrote this?’ and I told him that Vince did. He said, ‘Well kid, these are the breaks,’ meaning that Vince wanted to end my career and destroy my reputation on my way out.
He is known for this type of behavior and also did this to [REDACTED] upon her departure from WWE.
In addition, after that night, each time I walk by him he would make vulgar sexual comments that were clearly designed to make me uncomfortable.

VICE News added:
A spokesperson for TKO, WWE’s parent company, declined to comment when provided a detailed accounting of the allegations in the statement and questions raised by it, aside from confirming that a top backstage employee named in the statement, Michael Hayes, currently works for WWE and clarifying the nature of his job. A lawyer said to represent McMahon did not respond to a request for comment.

Another recent VICE News article stated that John Laurinaitis claims he did know about Massaro’s claims about being raped, and “most” other people in upper WWE management did as well – contradicting WWE’s claims until now that nobody knew.
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