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Real-Life Reason AJ Lee Agreed To Return For WWE Survivor Series

By Shuvangi Sen Chaudhury • Published Nov 25, 2025 04:20 EST
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AJ Lee returned to WWE to cost Becky Lynch the Women’s Intercontinental Championship.

Since then, she has made the big move to join the babyfaces for Survivor Series WarGames and will take on the heels, including Becky Lynch.

The Black Widow had previously returned ahead of Wrestlepalooza and teamed up with CM Punk to defeat The Man and Seth Rollins.

AJ Lee gives her reason to return to WWE

The former WWE Divas Champion recently appeared on What’s Your Story? With Stephanie McMahon, where she was asked about why she decided to return to the wrestling juggernaut.

AJ Lee revealed that she did not want to return to a situation she was in back in 2015. So, it took her a moment to understand what she was committing to. However, it’s the current women’s roster that inspired her.

Yes, so I figured because I was in a generation where we got like seven minutes max, I thought I would just jump into the deep end and do 30 minute matches and fucking WarGames cage matches. Gonna ease back into things.

There was this world in which it was just a one and done, where it was just like ‘come back and have fun and see how you feel’. And that’s been a big thing too, because I never wanted to feel how I felt mentally, my last year [in WWE] was very hard for me, so I have been a little trepidatious in what I’m committing to and what I can handle.

Part of the appeal in ‘ok let’s keep doing this’ is that group of women. I’m a fan of all of them, I’ll be so happy to just be surrounded by them and get to work with them, to just kind of like hang out with them in that type of way, (of) ok trust this group. I give great credit to the women they make it very appealing.

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