The Wrap recently spoke to Martha Hart to promote the upcoming Dark Side of the Ring episode which focuses on her late husband Owen's death in WWE. As you'll no doubt recall, he fell from a harness which was meant to lower him to the ring, and Martha spent years engaged in legal battles with WWE (she also fell out with many members of the Hart family, including Bret).
Martha has said in the past that Bret disagrees with her decision not to allow Owen to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, but has now elaborated on issues which arose when those lawsuits were in the midst of happening.
Apparently, Bret was keen at the time for Martha to push to get footage from WWE. "He was hoping somehow — if we ever had a settlement — that we could work it in. When that didn’t happen, he was very upset that he didn’t get his footage. It prompted him to befriend Vince [McMahon] again so he could have access to his footage. That was the first fracture in our relationship."
The trade subsequently reached out to Bret who responded: "While I am not interested in engaging in any more media mudslinging between Martha and myself especially in light of a global pandemic, I will say that our fallout is multifaceted. To say that it only involved being able to access and use my WWE footage and photos for future projects would merely be an oversimplification and inaccurate."
"I will not comment any further on the matter," he concluded. Sadly, it seems as if this is a relationship which isn't going to be repaired in the near future.