The Flair family’s most recent controversy, though some fans believe it was manufactured for content for WWE’s “Unreal” series on Netflix, came when Charlotte and WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton got into a feud that resulted in a very personal, off-script promo on “WWE SmackDown.” Flair chose Stratton as the champion she would challenge at WrestleMania 41 after her Rumble victory. Stratton had previously said that Charlotte was one of her dream opponents.

The feud traveled out of storyline and into reality on an April episode of “SmackDown” when the women met face-to-face in the ring with commentator Wade Barrett between them to prevent any physicality. The promo went off script quickly, and reports about who started the drama were varied, but it was possibly when Flair started with a line about being a “nepo queen” when Stratton compared her to her father. Charlotte was also rattled by the crowd and seemed to give up on the segment entirely when she told Stratton she could have the last word. Stratton then mentioned Charlotte’s recent divorce and called her “0-3” in marriages before rolling out of the ring to avoid possibly getting hit. As the champion made her way up the ramp, Charlotte shouted at her that Stratton’s boyfriend, fellow WWE star Ludwig Kaiser, was in her DMs.

Ric addressed the promo and said he hates when WWE uses him in Charlotte’s storylines. Charlotte herself addressed what happened in an article with “The Players Tribune.” She wrote about her marriage to former fellow WWE star Andrade dissolving and her struggles with fertility. She also wrote that Stratton’s “0-3 in marriages” line “rocked her” legitimately and said her reaction to the line was as real as it gets, because in her mind, her character, Charlotte, had never been divorced like Ashley.