WWE News: Former WWE Diva Ashley Massaro Claims She Was Sexually Assaulted While In WWE

Former WWE Diva Ashley Massaro may have knocked a door wide open recently when she claimed she had been sexually assaulted while with WWE, and the company tried to cover it up. Many current fans may not know a lot about Massaro, but she was quite popular back in her time with WWE. She made her debut with WWE in 2005, and her punk rock look made her an interesting addition to the WWE roster, which kept her on television a lot at the time.

She was a manager early on but did find herself in the ring off and on from her actual WWE debut until she was released in 2008 after asking to let go due to her, at the time, sick daughter. She was also one of the last WWE Divas who appeared in Playboy before the company stopped doing the partnership with the popular men’s magazine. Her looks and character got her relatively far in WWE, but she was a terrible wrestler like many of the WWE Divas in her time, and she never won a championship in her career.

Her looks were obviously the thing that kept her around in WWE, but was it something else that kept her in the WWE longer than people thought? According to The Boston Globe, Ashley Massaro claimed was apparently sexually assaulted when she visited a US base in Kuwait on behalf of WWE in 2006. Now she did claim that company doctors examined her following the incident and they did report their findings to WWE executives. However, they persuaded Massaro to keep quiet about the incident and that the WWE would handle the situation internally.

This was not the only thing Ashley Massaro spoke up about, as she also said she suffered several concussions during her time with the company. She claimed that one even knocked her unconscious for five minutes while in the ring when she was wrestling with WWE. Many of the women were seemingly injury prone through their WWE career during the company’s model phase. Considering WWE barely taught them how to wrestle before throwing them on television, concussions were likely to occur, so Massaro is likely not the only one who saw problems in her WWE run.

Ashley claimed she never received any care for her injuries that led her to depression, anxiety, memory loss, migraines and more. In fact, she claims the WWE told her to “shake it off.” The 37-year-old claims that this all led to her drug addiction, which WWE helped her kick through rehab in 2010. WWE pays for 100 percent rehab for all former, and current, WWE stars who need it, barring only one name now, Tammy Synch or “Sunny” due to her various problems that WWE must feel rehab cannot help.

If this wasn’t enough for Ashley Massaro to take on, she claims she also suffered a hairline fracture to her spine, two herniated disks, an ankle fracture that required a five-inch metal plate, and a shattered knuckle on her right hand. In other words, she wasn’t completely healthy in her WWE run. If that didn’t make you wonder about her WWE time, she also claimed that the WWE Chairman Vince McMahon himself ordered doctors to remove a case on her hand weeks before it was supposed to come off so that she could wrestle an event that very night.

Of course, this would violate several laws and would be grounds for a lawsuit any day of the week. Of course, she would be the only witness, and it would be tough to prove WWE was compromising her health without someone else to back up the claims. Ashley Massaro ended up joining the big lawsuit against WWE that has been using negligence as their reasoning for a lawsuit this time around. She joins a growing list of over 50 people that now includes the family of the late Balls Mahoney and Perry Saturn, who says he suffers from many of the things that relate to CTE.

As of now, WWE has yet to lose a case involving former WWE Superstars and their head injuries. This is in spite of the NFL and NHL having pretty much set a precedent in the field. The NFL even reached a one billion dollar settlement just last year with some former players.

Of course, when media reached out for comment on all of this, WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt chose to not address Ashley Massaro directly and decided to cite WWE’s motion for sanctions against Kyros Konstantine. WWE is expected to address new plaintiffs and their allegations whenever McDevitt files another motion to dismiss the case.

This is not the first lawsuit from the same lawyer, and it seems that attacking the WWE with the angle of negligence makes it seem more feasible that they could win. However, due to the same lawyer doing things with many wrestlers who worked outside of WWE for years, it does seem difficult. The good thing is the addition of Ashley Massaro, who people know really only wrestled in one place. Theoretically, if her allegations can be proved in any way, then we have a case on our hands against the WWE that can actually get interesting. Typically, they get thrown out relatively quick.

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