White House correspondent and Morgan State University alumna April D. Ryan made headlines after her questions about Russia and whether the Trump administration had plans to revamp its image received abrupt backlash from press secretary Sean Spicer.

Spicer told Ryan in a Tuesday briefing at the White House that she had an agenda and to “stop shaking” her head, which was met with shock and fury from viewers and on social media.

Ryan told The Baltimore Sun on Wednesday morning that she must have struck a nerve, but she’s not sure what caused that moment.

“I’ve been doing the same thing and asking the same kinds of questions for 20 years. I didn’t do a ‘gotcha’ question,” Ryan said.

Celebrities and current and former politicians “from both sides of the aisle” reached out to her. Hillary Clinton mentioned the exchange during a speech for a Professional BusinessWomen of California conference on Tuesday.

Spicer commented on the exchange Wednesday morning with radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“April is a tough reporter that knows how to, you know, throw it out and take it back," Spicer said. "We went back and forth. I disagreed with the angle and the way that she was coming at the question, but that’s what we do.”

— Brittany Britto and John Fritze