AJ Lee previously commented on her reasoning behind returning to WWE after a ten-year hiatus, stating that while she’d been very comfortable in retirement, she’d mused a couple of return for years. The previous WWE Divas Champion has already begun to envision off possible items from her return bucket list.
“I had this like really picture-perfect profession, and it was over,” Lee stated during an interview on “The Takedown on SI,” expressing that her return was a surreal moment for her. “For it to have sort of spiralized right into a WarGames match and a title?…And now one other WrestleMania match? It’s all just been very unexpected and exciting. Fun!”
Lee further claimed that her return to WWE is for her fans and not only herself, although she enjoyed all her post-wrestling projects. Nevertheless, a defining moment for her was to see the turnout for her during singings, where she claims the lines were seven hours long.
“That is when I spotted, ‘Oh, they’re still here,'” she explained. “To me, it was at first I actually fought them, and so to present them a title run and a ‘Mania match has been, just really, incredibly meaningful!”
The Women’s Intercontinental Champion then noted that she saw herself as a child during her previous WWE run but now views herself as a girl as a substitute, which has been something she’s personally enjoyed about her return.
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