On the November 20, 2017 episode of Raw, the night after Survivor Series, Paige made her return to WWE after a year-long hiatus due to injury, along with the debuting Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville from NXT, and attacked Bayley, Mickie James and Sasha Banks. The following week, the trio dubbed themselves "Absolution". They had their first match as a team on the December 11 episode of Raw, in which Rose and Paige defeated Bayley and James in a tag team match. Absolution had their first televised match as a trio at the 2017 Tribute to the Troops, in which Paige, Rose and Deville defeated Bayley, Banks and James in a six-woman tag team match. They lost a rematch to Bayley, Banks and James by disqualification on the December 18 episode of Raw, but defeated them on the December 25 episode of Raw. On December 27, Paige suffered a neck injury after receiving a kick from Banks during a six-man tag team match between Absolution and the team of Bayley, Banks and James at a house show, which led to the referee stopping the match. Paige's injury put her out of action but she continued to manage Rose and Deville during matches at ringside.
Rose and Deville continued to represent Absolution as a tag team and continued to trade wins with Bayley, Mickie James and Sasha Banks in tag team matches and six-man tag team matches throughout early 2018. Paige retired from in-ring competition on the post-WrestleMania 34 episode of Raw on April 9. The following night, on SmackDown, the SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon made Paige the new general manager of the SmackDown brand after former general manager Daniel Bryan resigned from his position due to his in-ring return. On April 17, Rose and Deville joined Paige on the SmackDown brand in the 2018 Superstar Shake-up. However, Paige ended her association with the group by dissolving Absolution on the May 1 episode of SmackDown and refused to grant any favors to Rose and Deville.