“We’ve had a couple of moments since his return — like, there was one moment where [after his return] and they had told him something creatively and they told me, ‘He does not like this.’ And I was like, ‘Ok, I’ll talk to him.’ Went and talked to him and I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ You know, told him the creative. And he was like, ‘No, it’s good, whatever.’ And I was like, ‘I know you don’t like it, everybody’s told me. So let’s be open.’ So then he complained about what it was, and I said, ‘Ok, let’s go sit and talk about it [and] come up with something good.’ Like, I’m not married to that stuff, it’s just a thought and an idea,” Levesque said. “And he was angry and he walked away from me. And then a couple minutes later, he came back. He was like, ‘I’m sorry, I have post-traumatic stress disorder still from before. I forget that it’s [different]. I’m not used to this process. I would love to sit down with you and be creative.’
“And that sort of changed, like a paradigm shift for us relationship-wise. Now, it’s a funny thing for me to even say: Sitting down and being collaborative with CM Punk is one of my favorite things at TV. Because he shares a very similar view, at the end of the day, of the business as I do. So it’s like fun now for me.”
