As part of a sworn affidavit that was previously unreleased to the public until Friday, late WWE star Ashley Massaro alleged that former WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon sexually harassed her and other female wrestlers.

Attorneys Konstantine Kyros and Erica Mirabella, who represented Massaro and several other WWE wrestlers in a concussion lawsuit against WWE that was dismissed in 2018, provided Massaro's statement to Tim Marchman of Vice News, and it read as follows:

"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 [then-WWE executive producer] 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."

Massaro went on to allege that after she rejected McMahon's advances, he purposefully sought to torpedo her WWE career, saying:

"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 [NAME 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."

Massaro made her WWE debut in 2005 after competing in and winning the Raw Divas Search competition. She was featured on the cover of the April 2007 edition of Playboy magazine, and by July 2008, she was released from WWE.

The statement released by Marchman on Friday was removed from Massaro's original affidavit since she and her attorneys agreed that the statement should focus more on injuries she suffered during her time in WWE.

However, after Massaro died of apparent suicide at the age of 39 in May 2019, one of her attorneys released part of the affidavit in which she alleged that she was raped by someone who claimed they were a U.S. Army doctor while WWE was on tour in Kuwait in 2006.

Per Marchman, Massaro alleged that McMahon and other high-ranking WWE officials knew about the allegation at the time, but they told her not to go public with it.

Massaro said former WWE head of talent relations John Laurinaitis was among those who were aware of the allegation, and Laurinaitis' lawyer confirmed that to be true and relayed that his client said that "most of upper management knew," according to Marchman.

Last month, former WWE staffer Janel Grant filed a lawsuit against McMahon, Laurinaitis and WWE, alleging that both McMahon and Laurinaitis sexually assaulted her, and that McMahon trafficked her to other people within WWE.

Grant alleged that McMahon used promises of high pay and high-ranking jobs within the company to force her into sex, and that he shared explicit videos and photos of her with other WWE employees.

McMahon had previously retired from WWE in June 2022 after a WWE board of directors investigation found that he paid Grant and multiple other women millions of dollars in exchange for them signing non-disclosure agreements that prevented them from speaking about sexual relationships they had with McMahon and alleged sexual misconduct he engaged in.

He returned to the company in January 2023 and facilitated the sale of WWE to Endeavor Group Holdings, which merged WWE with the UFC to form TKO Group Holdings.

McMahon was named executive chairman of the new company, but he resigned from his position after Grant filed her lawsuit last month.