I walked back into the room [and thanked everyone in the room]," Kross said in an interview with Ariel Helwani. Kross then made sure that word was sent back to WWE management that he was simply working an angle with his complaints.

Kross said he received a contract renewal offer last Tuesday. He also noted that his wife, Scarlett Bordeaux, who served as his manager under the pseudonym Scarlett, did not receive a contract renewal.