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Impact Wrestling’s Michael Elgin has issued a statement following #SpeakingOut allegations which surfaced over the last few weeks.
Michael Elgin shared a video on Youtube, speaking on allegations made against him from a woman, claiming she was sexually assaulted by him in 2011.
Elgin denies sexually assaulting the woman, but does admit the two did share a bed together, mentioning their were other people in the room.
It’s been brought to my attention that some girl made a claim about a hotel room in 2011. I don’t know if anything ever happened to this young lady. I hope that it hasn’t and I hope that if it has, she’s found some peace and some resolve and I’m sure that’s impossible because I can’t speak on it. I can say that in 2011, I did share a hotel room with that girl and I did share a bed with her. What has been left out is that there were four other people in the room. I laid down in the bed next to the girl, asked her to come closer or for sex, I don’t know the exact verbiage. All I remember is her saying no and me going to sleep. The next morning, the four wrestlers asked me if we slept together and I said no and they said, ‘We know. She turned you down.’ They joked with me for months about being turned down. I don’t know what else to say about that. I have four people swearing up and down that’s exactly what happened
He also spoke on allegations from independent wrestler Kaitlin Diemond who claims Elgin sent her an inappropriate photo while the two were both in Japan.
“A female wrestler said I took a dick picture and sent it to her in 2016. When I saw this, I was caught off-guard and I messaged her. I said, ‘Hey, I know that we hung out with a group of people in Japan in 2016 but I’m 100 percent positive I never sent you a dick picture.’ She told me that everything was fine and everything was cordial. It was cool to hang out and apparently, I hung out with a group of wrestlers and was drunk and they caught me talking to her about wrestling and they dared me to send a dick picture and she claims that I did. I said, ‘Well, I’m very sorry. I had no clue that it happened.’ She then replied with, ‘Well, it’s not that big of a deal. It’s not like you said you were going to force yourself on me and you said sorry back then and it’s not a big deal.’ I have all these messages because I was taken aback that I even did that. She then showed someone else the picture and they showed me. It’s not me. I don’t know if I was drunk and sent an image you can search online because I didn’t want to show her mine. I don’t know what happened. If that is what she claimed, then I said sorry when she posted, I said sorry, apparently in 2016 by her own words. I can’t do anything about that. I have already said sorry,”
According to PWInsider Elite, Michael Elgin is still signed under contract with Impact Wrestling, despite the company stating he will no longer be featured on programming.
Special thanks to WrestlingInc for the transcription