Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Steve Smith unloaded on his former team Wednesday, specifically targeting Carolina Panthers general manager David Gettleman for the way he was released earlier this year after 13 seasons.

“Yes, it was personal with me and Dave Gettleman,” Smith said Wednesday on Charlotte radio station WFNZ. “Obviously, I did something that got under his skin.”

Smith got some revenge when he caught seven passes for 139 yards and two touchdowns in Sunday’s 38-10 victory over the Panthers.

Smith called into the station Wednesday to refute an NFL Network report aired last week saying he had refused a pay cut and instead asked for a release from the Panthers.

“You wake up in the morning after a good win and you just read reports about (how) you demand this and demand that,” Smith said. “Man, I just find it interesting.”

Smith, 35, said before his release that Gettleman told him that he was a shell of the player he once was, a distraction to the team and jealous of quarterback Cam Newton.

“I say, ‘Well, is this about a pay cut?'” Smith said of a conversation with Gettlemen. “He laughs and says, ‘No, this is not about a pay cut, but thanks for asking.’ And then says, ‘We’re going to trade you.’

“I pick up myself, walk out, shower and I call my wife and say, ‘We’re done here. I will either be traded or released.’ I knew from the jump I was going to be released or traded.”

On the morning that he was released, Smith said his agent had scheduled a 9 a.m. appointment to talk to Gettleman about his future.

But Smith said he then heard on WFNZ at 8:15 a.m. that he had been released.

“He doesn’t even have the cojones to tell us to our face,” Smith said. “We have to hear it from someone else. Then he calls and says, like everyone else says, ‘It wasn’t personal.’

“If the first thing that comes out is, ‘It wasn’t personal’ … Guess what? It was personal. Then he says that I could have called at any time. And now that I played well, you’re going to say I was a distraction, I’ve always been a distraction.

“But yet, I didn’t beat my wife. Yeah, I hit some teammates six or seven years ago, but I didn’t beat my wife. I didn’t get arrested for DUIs. I didn’t fall off no motorcycles. … I made mistakes, but building this big old crutch about it as if I pushed their hands.”

Those remarks were aimed at Carolina defensive end Greg Hardy, who is on the commissioner’s exempt list until his domestic violence case is resolved. Earlier in his career, Hardy was involved in a motorcycle accident that forced him to miss much of training camp.

Smith said he finally had contact with Panthers coach Ron Rivera, who sought him out after Sunday’s game to shake his hand.

‘Ron Rivera, through that whole ordeal, never sat down and talked to me,” Smith said. “He texted me after the release and said, ‘Sorry it happened this way.’ That was the only time he talked to me.

“(Sunday) was the first time since I was released that he sat down and went out of his way and shook my hand and looked at me man to man.”

After being selected in the third round of the 2001 draft, Smith had 836 receptions for 12,197 yards and 67 touchdowns for the Panthers. He had 64 catches for 745 yards and four touchdowns last season. This season with the Ravens, Smith has 25 receptions for 429 yards and three touchdowns.