WWE Backstage Reaction To Tiffany Stratton & Charlotte Flair Off Script Comments Revealed

The WWE backstage reaction to Tiffany Stratton and Charlotte Flair veering off script on SmackDown has been revealed.

Ahead of their WWE Women’s Championship match at WrestleMania 41, Stratton and Flair met on the April 4 edition of SmackDown for a promo segment which has gotten the wrestling world talking.

Things got really personal towards the end of the segment, with Stratton referencing Flair’s divorce from Andrade, and Flair claiming Stratton’s real-life boyfriend Ludwig Kaiser was in her DMs.

WrestleVotes reported after the segment that Flair and Stratton were “off-script quite a bit” during this segment, with the duo reportedly saying very little of what was on the rundown for them.

With WWE deleting a video containing these personal shots, we now know more about the internal reaction to the segment.

Per Mike Johnson of PWInsider – who also reports that the segment went off-script – the belief among WWE sources was that Stratton’s shots on Flair were in retaliation for how Flair “ate her up” in their previous segment.

Some felt Tiffany Stratton stood up for herself and put the spotlight back on her, while others felt how the segment ended didn’t help anyone.

Sources noted to PWInsider that Flair was obviously thrown by the crowd, which made Stratton’s shots hit a lot harder.

Flair’s comment about Kaiser being in her DMs was described by one source as coming off like “a flailing shot from a boxer who didn’t realize they were KO’d”, with the same source also stating that Flair was “obviously gotten to.”

It’s worth noting that WRKD Wrestling previously reported: “For anyone concerned or thinking otherwise: Charlotte’s divorce absolutely would not have been mentioned without clearance ahead of time.”

Ludwig Kaiser has now responded to Charlotte Flair’s comments about him, which you can read more about right here.

Regarding Tiffany Stratton and Charlotte Flair's SmackDown segment, the belief among WWE sources was that Stratton's shots on Flair were in retaliation for how Flair "ate her up" in their previous segment.

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— WrestleTalk (@WrestleTalk_TV) April 5, 2025