Speaking on CJ Perry's Identity Crisis podcast, Berenato explained that the incident happened during a "pull-apart promo" drill, where wrestlers practice the intensity of being separated during a brawl. Berenato, along with Aliyah and Danielle Kamela (Vanessa Borne), were assigned to be the ones separating Morgan and Rose.

“So they're doing a pull-apart. Me, Aliyah, Kamela, we were the three people to pull them apart… I’m in the middle of the two of them, and they're doing it, and it feels normal at first," Berenato said. "Then I'm feeling the wind whiz past my ear, and I'm like, ‘Yo, they're really throwing.’ And then I hear one of them say, ‘What, b*tch?’”

Once the fight became real, Berenato said her partners quickly vanished. “Then I look, Aliyah's gone. Danielle’s gone. They bounced because now it is a scramble, and I’m in the middle. I’m shooting on both of them to get them off each other... Mandy had Gionna's hair, Gionna had Mandy's hair, and they're screaming at each other and swinging for the fences."

After the two were finally separated by Berenato and male wrestlers who "slid in to help," the confrontation continued verbally. “[Liv] rolls out and she's like, ‘You pulled my hair.’ And Mandy goes, ‘At least my hair is real, b*tch.’... The coaches came in and gave a big speech… I think one swung a little too snug and the other retaliated.”