While we're waiting for more "back room" stories, the ghost of my English teacher is prompting me to point out that "From where" in the title, should really be "From whence" or for the really pedantic, just "Whence".
Whence, according to its conventional definition, means from where, so the phrase from whence is logically redundant. But this doesn’t stop people from using from whence, a phrase that has been common for centuries. When hearing the sentence Whence came you?, one may feel something is missing—specifically, a preposition—even though the sentence is well constructed without it.
https://grammarist.com/usage/whence-from-whence/