What Wasn’t Planned: Off-Script Shots from Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton Exposed

The drama between Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton on the April 4 episode of WWE SmackDown just got a whole lot deeper—and now we know exactly how their promo derailed into personal shots and off-script chaos.

What fans saw on TV was already intense. Personal jabs, real-life tension, and a crowd in Chicago that flipped the energy of the segment entirely. But behind the scenes? It was even messier.

According to Wrestling Observer Live’s Bryan Alvarez, several of the lines thrown between the two stars weren’t part of the original script at all. While Stratton’s line about Flair being a “nepo baby” was planned, Charlotte’s cutting response wasn’t. “Nepo QUEEN! The number one nepo baby!” Flair snapped back—completely unscripted.

Then things really started to spiral. Flair began mocking Tiffany’s voice in a high-pitched tone—again, totally off-book. “She’s ridiculing her and doing the high-pitched voice thing,” Alvarez revealed. That’s when Stratton decided she’d had enough. She clapped back with “0-3,” referencing Flair’s real-life divorces—a mic-drop moment that wasn’t in the script either.

Alvarez explained, “The discussion about divorces and everything, that was all in the script. But the line about 0-3 which was a reference to how many times she’s been divorced, that was not in the script.”

Tiffany then stormed out of the ring, throwing down the mic—something a babyface typically wouldn’t do. “She throws down the mic and she starts to roll out of the ring and Charlotte is walking (towards her), and Wade Barrett, he is gonna get between these two because he can see this thing has gone totally off the rails,” Alvarez continued.

The tension didn’t end in the ring. Backstage, there was heat on both women—but especially Charlotte. “There was more heat on Charlotte because she went off the script more, and she’s the veteran. She’s the one that’s supposed to be keeping this stuff together,” Alvarez added.

The situation was so volatile that WWE’s YouTube channel cut out several of the more controversial lines. Interestingly, USA Network’s YouTube channel didn’t trim the segment, leaving the full exchange—including “Is that why Kaiser’s in my DMs?” and the “0-3” jab—online for fans to dissect.

WWE hasn’t addressed the segment publicly, but sources backstage said it was “a hot topic among the women’s roster since it happened,” and even described Flair’s reaction as “a flailing shot from a boxer who didn’t realize they were KO’d.”

With WrestleMania 41 approaching and tensions clearly real, it remains to be seen whether WWE will use this unscripted fire to fuel the storyline—or if they’ll try to put the lid back on what’s already out of the bag.

This promo might’ve been chaos, but it made one thing clear: things are getting personal between Flair and Stratton—and not just for the cameras.

Do you think WWE should lean into the real-life tension between Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton, or is it too risky to blur the lines this much? Drop your thoughts in the comments below—we want to hear what you think.