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Over WrestleMania 40 weekend, Stephanie McMahon returned to WWE for the first time since her January 2023 resignation.

Stephanie appeared at night two of WrestleMania on Sunday and was also shown at Friday's WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. Though she attended a couple of shows after her resignation, this was Stephanie's first time appearing on camera since then.

At the post-WrestleMania press conference, Paul "Triple H" Levesque said it was great to have his wife "back home" in WWE. He hopes Stephanie knows that she belongs in WWE as much as anybody on the planet does.

"God damn, my wife looked good, right? She hadn't lost a step," Levesque said. "So great to have her back home. I get her home all the time, but to have her back here, to see the doubt leave her by being here for the last few days, to see her confidence come back, and to know that this is her home. All of you, all of us, all this business - it's her home. And as much as anybody on the planet, she belongs here. And hopefully she knows that now. So, happy to have her back."

WWE hasn't announced if Stephanie has re-joined the company in any official capacity.

Stephanie's resignation from WWE in January 2023 came after her father Vince McMahon forced himself back into power in the company. Stephanie had served as WWE's chairwoman and co-CEO following Vince's retirement in July 2022.

Vince resigned from WWE and its parent company TKO Group Holdings this January following the sexual abuse allegations made against him in former WWE employee Janel Grant's lawsuit.

This year was the first time in history that Vince had no involvement in WrestleMania. Stephanie opened the night on Sunday, calling it the first WrestleMania of the "Paul Levesque Era."

At the post-show press conference, Levesque rejected the "Paul Levesque Era" term.

"It's not my era, it's our era," Levesque said. "When I say our, I mean everybody in WWE. The people that endured. The people that hung in there. The people that trusted. The people that, over the last year [or] whatever it's been, gave their sweat and tears to get where we are." 

This article first appeared on F4WOnline.com and was syndicated with permission.

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