Janel Grant Opens Up About Fall That Led To Hospitalization: “I Had A Concussion, Broken Ribs & A Lung Hemorrhage”
Janel Grant writes about her hospital stay.
Former WWE employee Janel Grant took to her Instagram page and shared that she had been hospitalized after suffering a fall. As a result of the fall, Grant suffered a concussion, broken ribs, and a lung hemorrhage.
Below is her post:
“I tripped on the edge of the carpet runner.
I remember falling. I don’t remember falling for days.
I was alone.
My worst fear realized turned out to be my new beginning.
It took a serious accident to realize the full picture of daily atrophy that’s happened since June 2022.
Every area of life has been impacted down to my skin and bones; holding a job, support system, safety, mental health, physical strength, finances and stability in everything.
It took a serious accident to realize how these years of “be brave and stay alive” resemble my dad’s bed-to-chair hospice.
It was on my walk back to bed that I tripped and fell into a wooden bed frame/wall unit with floating cabinets. I blacked out. I think it happened at the end of July or the start of August.
I have no memory of the days that followed. I didn’t know I hit my head or that I kept falling. I have no memory from those days of blood trails, bruising, busted body parts and becoming an unrecognizable version of myself.
My next memory is days later. I was being driven to the hospital out of concern about my well-being.
I had a concussion, broken ribs, and a lung hemorrhage.
I remember crying during the information intake. Married? Family? Employer? Insurance? Emergency contact? I didn’t have any of these.
Hours of time passed.
Behind a curtain.
Alone.
On morphine.
I stared at my feet and cried.
Flooded with memories, I reunited with the ghost of my past while coming to terms with the broken present.
I broke. Everything broke. And I grieved it all.
I know this hospital.
I know this emergency room.
This is the hospital where my dad passed away. The last day I ever had family was spent here.
This is the hospital where I returned to be a volunteer – a place to pick myself up and have a purpose helping others – while I searched for a job.
This is the hospital where I greeted everyone with “Hi, my name is JJ,” an old nickname that was easy for patients to remember. This is where I stood – at the foot of this very bed – to help patients put on the socks that I now wore.
In 2019, 1 returned my volunteer badge ahead of starting a new job. I embarked on a path that ultimately returned me to this exact spot in 2026; a broken patient with no emergency contact waiting alone behind a curtain.
I’m sharing this to give peace of mind to people who have expressed concern about me. My slow responses are a result of the healing process. It’s exhausting, painful and, well, slow.
Here’s the irony.. despite everything in my life breaking, I’ve never felt more alive. I’ve also never believed more in the power of humanity to rally around someone in need.
I’ve feared an accident happening to either me or my cat because I’m alone. The last few years of chaos in life left only a few people brave enough to maintain any remote presence and answer a phone call.
If this happened last year or the year before, I can’t think of one person with enough consistent presence in my life who would’ve detected that I was injured and needed go the hospital. Because I have hindsight from years of lived experience, I appreciate how much worse this could’ve been.
The more I learn and reflect, the more grateful I am for the miracles that have happened in 2026.
The people who were game-changing, difference-making, life-saving Good Samaritans were not here to witness my injured state but they sensed I needed help. They stopped their lives and listened. Some of them have only had my number for a few months. Regardless of their physical location, they didn’t keep distance. They took action.
They made calls, cast a net and did things I can’t remember because I concussed. How they treated me in that moment – when I needed help but didn’t know it – reflected what’s in their hearts: compassion, patience and human kindness… THANK YOU.
Everything from my bones to my bank account is still broken. Any problem I had yesterday will still be there tomorrow. But I’m sitting in gratitude and it feels like a joyous, hard won, defiant, against-the-odds honest celebration of life. I’m still here. Still breathing. I might be hobbling but I’ve never been more excited about attending the Alliance’s event next month.
My worst fear realized turned out to be proof that I’m already in a new beginning. I stopped counting the days. I’m making the days count.
It took a serious accident and everything breaking to realize – finally – that I’m not alone.”
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Grant is in the midst of a sex trafficking lawsuit that she filed against WWE and former company Chairman Vince McMahon. The case is in private arbitration.
