>>149571144
That was Stern and DeFalco trying to make sense of why Wolfman had MJ run away from Peter, which itself had shit on all the work Conway had done to make her a good girlfriend for Peter.
They took a terribly out of character moment and turned it into an interesting backstory that added to her character. Stern didn't even want MJ to be the love interest, but he knew she was an important member of her cast and needed to be fixed.