The brief 13-second clip taken during a commercial break showed Christie aggressively speaking to the debate’s moderators, Kelly and the Washington Free Beacon’s Eliana Johnson.

“He was pissed off,” Kelly explained during “The Megyn Kelly Show” on Thursday.

“He was mad that he wasn’t getting enough questions. And he said, ‘I made it up at this stage, and I haven’t been able to speak in awhile. And I should have been brought in on that last debate.’”

Though Christie was upset, Kelly explained she knew the former governor would eventually get the stage time he sought during the debate’s second half.

“I said, ‘We’re coming to you. You’re going to be happy in the second hour,’ which I lived up to,” Kelly added.

Kelly said the “even distribution of questions got mucked up from all the arguing” among Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy during the debate’s first half.

“We let them fight in the first 40 minutes of the debate and therefore that comes at the expense of something,” she explained, adding that it is “all at the expense of something else that’s coming.”

But even with explaining why Christie may have felt snubbed, she had a stern message for the presidential candidate during her show the following day.

“He’s polling at 2%!” she proclaimed.

“In no debate ever, and I’ve now done six of them, have we given as many questions to the guy who’s at 3% as to the person who’s in the lead, at least among the candidates that are on the stage. I’m sorry, Gov. Christie. That’s the way it is.”

Kelly claimed each candidate received close to the same amount of time to answer questions, citing CNN’s numbers from the debate.

“Vivek got 22 minutes, DeSantis 21, Haley 17, Christie 16 and 52 seconds. So he was a half a minute behind Haley, who’s tied up there for number one,” Kelly shared.

Kelly was assertive that Christie wasn’t mistreated on Wednesday.

“Vivek got 22 minutes, DeSantis 21, Haley 17, Christie 16 and 52 seconds. So he was a half a minute behind Haley, who’s tied up there for number one,” Kelly shared.

“I don’t want to hear it, frankly. We did right by him. He got a ton of airtime. That’s what he was mad about,” Kelly stated.

“I like the guy, but just to break some news on what people speculating on … They never like it when they don’t get to speak.”

The back-and-forth between Christie and the former Fox News host wasn’t the only temper-flaring moment for the former governor during Wednesday night’s debate.

Christie tore into Ramaswamy after the biotech entrepreneur slighted Haley’s intelligence.

“This is the fourth debate. The fourth debate that you will be voted in the first 20 minutes as the most obnoxious blowhard in America,” Christie said, setting off a near-screaming match as Ramaswamy repeatedly interrupted Christie.

“We’re now 25 minutes into this debate, and he has insulted Nikki Haley’s basic intelligence, not her positions, her basic intelligence,” Christie continued.