After taking some pretty serious bumps during Damage CTRL's WarGames match at last year's Survivor Series, you'd think Bayley would have taken things easy in Chicago, retreating to her locker room and cooling off just in case Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Byron Saxton and company needed her for the press conference or a digital medial exclusive segment, right?

Potentially so, but when the opening bars of “Cult of Personality” hit at the end of the final WarGames match between Team Cody and Team Judgment Day, it's safe to say Bayley, much like every other member of the WWE Universe who stuck around backstage, immediately jumped to their feet and ran to Gorilla position to see what was going on.

Discussing her experience in an interview with the New York Post, Bayley noted just how excited she was to have CM Punk back in WWE, as the moment was one for the ages.

“Everybody reads online, but I was like there's no way. This is crazy. Then there was like a moment where we weren't allowed to walk a certain way [backstage]. And I was like, wait, no, it's not gonna happen. He would have said something. She would have said something,” Bayley told the NY Post.

“Someone has it on film somewhere. I'm watching the monitor, and his music hit; I frick'n went crazy. I'm like, no way did they actually do this. I ran into Gorilla [position] to go say hi to him and he was so happy.

“To have him backstage is so crazy, to see him walking around. But he has the biggest smile on his face. He looks so happy. He gives me the best hugs. He's like, ‘This one's from me. This one's from April.' It's nice to have him there, but it makes me want her around. So I'm like, ‘Hey what's up? What are you doing? Are you gonna hang out with us?' ‘Sorry, I'm watching [our dog] Larry.'”

Would it have been cool to see AJ Lee return at Survivor Series too, or at any of the shows since? Sure thing, but that particular night in Chicago was all about the “Second City Saint,” and after watching his hometown crowd lose their minds at the Allstate Arena, it's safe to say Bayley will remember it for a very long time, too.

Bayley is very happy with how Damage CTRL has evolved in WWE.

Elsewhere in her conversation with the New York Post, Bayley commented on the formation of Damage CTRL and how proud she is that the group actually came together, as it was far from the easiest ask of her professional wrestling career.

“At that time in my career, that was my goal [to start a faction], and that to me seemed more impossible than going after a championship,” Bayley said. “It's like, OK, I could get back into a championship story, or I could go after a title and be a champion for however long. Not been there, done that, but to me that comes a little more natural and a little easier than being, ‘Hey boss, Mr. McMahon or Mr. Levesque, I want to bring these girls in, and I want to start something brand new.' That is harder and that was something that was harder to overcome.”

Asked about the additions of the Kabuki Warriors to the group, Balyey noted that she assumed that the group would instead add some talent from NXT, instead of one of the most decorated tag teams of recent memory, leading her to believe that the group is now more powerful than ever.

“In my mind, I would have Jacy Jayne or Cora Jade [from NXT] and like, let's groom these girls, and it would be something like that to grow the group,” Bayley said. “The fact that we got Kairi Sane and Asuka where it's like, I don't even have to do anything. There is no starting over. There is no grooming. This just lit it on fire, and I can't even begin to explain how honored I feel to have those girls by our side. We're very dangerous now.”

Would Damage CTRL have worked out better if Jacy Jayne or Cora Jade – or both pre-ACL injury – had been added to the group instead of Asuka and Sane? Well, that depends on the creative plans Paul “Triple H” Levesque has up his sleeve, but with Dakota Kai still out and IYO SKY already the WWE Woman's Champion, this certainly gives the team a legitimate shot to add more gold to their ranks, which, in professional wrestling, is the true sign of success.