Wayne Gretzky is suing his former enterprise companion … alleging the girl filed a meritless lawsuit towards him in 2022 simply to attain a fast payday off him.

The NHL legend filed the go well with in Los Angeles County this week — some three years after Veera Mahajan sued him for his alleged function within the demise of a weight reduction gum enterprise known as “OMG.”

In her ’22 lawsuit, Mahajan stated she invested within the co. after Gretzky had claimed he misplaced 35 kilos in a couple of weeks from chewing on the product. She claimed Wayne later admitted that he lied in regards to the weight reduction — and it tanked the biz. She sued for fraud and was looking for unspecified damages.

Gretzky fought the lawsuit and in 2024, she filed to dismiss the case … and the previous hockey participant claims she needed to fold as a result of the lawsuit was frivolous to start with.

Gretzky stated he by no means lied about dropping the burden — and he contended he was definitely not the rationale the enterprise failed. He is alleging Mahajan solely filed the case as a result of she assumed Gretzky would settle “for thousands and thousands so as to keep away from potential adverse publicity.”

Now Gretzky is suing her for malicious prosecution … and is asking for unspecified damages.

This isn’t the primary time “OMG” has created authorized complications for Gretzky … the corporate’s founder, Steven Sparks, truly sued him with comparable allegations to Mahajan days earlier than she filed her criticism. That lawsuit stays ongoing.