Bayley was recently a guest on Booker T’s Hall of Fame podcast. During the podcast, she spoke on a wide variety of different topics.
One of these topics was about her recent heel turn. Bayley ended up explaining why she wanted to turn to the dark side.
Here is what she said (h/t to Fightful for the quote below):
“It’s been weird for me because I did the same thing for seven years, the same character, and built this fanbase for so long. The whole (time), especially towards the end, I was like, ‘I just want to do something different. I want to be bad, I want to be mean. It’ll be easier, I know exactly what I would do, how I would act, how I would talk.’ Then, I get here and I’m like ‘Uhhh, what the hell am I doing? Now what?’. It’s all a learning process, but it’s fun. In my career, I want to be able to do everything and go through all the different avenues and the humps and waves. I don’t want to just stay on the same road the whole time.”
When she was asked whose idea it was to turn her heel, here is what she said:
“It was a little bit of both (between me and creative). I’ve always had, in the back of my mind, if the time would come or the opportunity arose, how I could go about it.”
What do you think of Bayley’s heel turn? Let me know in the comment section below.
On a related note, check out my predictions for Bayley’s match at Wrestlemania 36 here.