More details continue to emerge regarding last week’s segment on WWE Smackdown that saw Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton engage in a “war of words.”

Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live reported that it was Charlotte who went off script first with her “Nepo Queen” line, which Fightfulselect.com confirmed but noted didn’t generate much heat backstage. However, Flair then began mocking Stratton’s voice which Alvarez reported was “absolutely not in the script” and fightful noting that people backstage felt that at that point, Stratton had to “fight back” but she took it to a much more personal level. Stratton delivered the line about Charlotte’s failed marriage (backstage, it was perceived as “ill advised”) which Flair responded by bringing in Ludwig Kaiser; neither of those lines was scripted or cleared by officials. Charlotte then addressed the audience booing her and while this also wasn’t in the plan, people backstage chalked it up as “run of the mill ad libbing” and that sort of improvising would never get anyone any heat.

The backstage reaction as the segment unfolded went from disbelief and shock as the promos went personal and internally it was labeled a “wreck” and while there were no additional backstage issues afterwards, both women had heat on them for how the segment played out. WWE digital producers were then instructed to edit out the personal stuff from the YouTube versions put online. As for Kaiser, who was involuntarily dragged in, he had some fun with the situation on social media and many backstage at Raw got a laugh out of how he was a good sport about it and played it up.