Jade Cargill recalls Triple H’s backstage reaction to WWE injury: ‘Get it off her, get the camera off her’
Jade Cargill revisited the bloody bout with Tiffany Stratton and Nia Jax in September 2025 for the WWE Women’s Championship on SmackDown.
Cargill detailed the series of events stating that the steel steps were supposed to move after Jax flung her into them. She told O’Shea Jackson Jr. & TJ Jefferson on No Contest Wrestling that she was initially unaware of the seriousness of the injury and profuse bleeding during the match. When she went backstage, Triple H informed her to rush to medical and instructed the cameras to be removed from her.
“I looked down and you could look at the video and a whole stream of blood just poured into my hand. And I was like ‘Oh, okay, that’s our blood.’ But all I was thinking was like ‘Dang’ because I have a white wig.”
“I got to figure out how I’m going to clean this out of my head. But then I got up and Daph (referee Daphanie LaShaunn) was like ‘You are bleeding.’ And I’m like ‘Okay, well, it’s probably not that bad. Like, it’s fine.’ And then in unison, the entire arena was like just gasp.”
“Cause after what I did to Nia, I was going to get on the announcers table and beat my chest like King Kong and talk a lot of smack. But then in unison the arena did that, I was like ‘Okay’, and then all the women in the front row turned around in disgust.”
“And we just kept going. I didn’t know how bad it was cause they threw a towel over me on the side. I was more upset with other things. And then we got to the back and uh Triple H said ‘Yeah, we gonna have to see a plastic surgery.’ And I was like ‘Whoa, for you to say that must be bad because he’s seen so much, right?’”
“It was hanging. My brow was crooked. The doctor had to go, it was three layers deep. I don’t know how many stitches I had to get. Everybody asked that. I don’t know. But it was three layers deep and they had to cut it because it was so crooked.”
“I didn’t know how bad it was, but from what I was told was Triple H backstage was like ‘Get it off her. Get the camera off her.’”
While Stratton retained the title in the bout, Cargill eventually defeated her for the WWE Women’s Championship at SNME in November. Her reign lasted for nearly 170 days until WrestleMania.
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