Drew.”ĭays before she was found dead, Chyna appeared disjointed as she wandered around her apartment wearing headphones and a feather in her hair in a 13-minute video she posted online. Laurer later came clean about her struggles with drugs on “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. She wrote her memoir, became a semi-regular on Howard Stern’s radio show and appeared in TV sitcoms like “3rd Rock From the Sun” and reality shows including “The Surreal Life.” She was in Playboy twice and appeared in a string of porn movies. #RIPChyna.”Īfter leaving the WWE in 2001, Laurer was determined to stay active in the entertainment industry. Laurer wasn’t afraid to “blaze her own trail and create a path for those who would follow,” Triple H, whose real name is Paul Levesque, said on Twitter. “She was truly a pioneer in our industry, and she will be missed,” tweeted Stephanie McMahon, an owner and executive with WWE who was once a romantic rival. She was a member of the WWE squad that dubbed itself “D-Generation X” and at one point was the women’s champion.
Even on the theatrical stage that is the WWE, she made it believable that she could compete with a man.”Ĭhyna was billed as the “9th Wonder of the World” because her wrestling predecessor Andre the Giant had already called himself the eighth. “She was polarizing, but she made it OK for a woman to get in there with the men. “This big woman coming out of the crowd, it was something you’d never seen before,” Jorgensen recalled of her first appearance in the ring. But it was immediately clear the raven-haired Chyna could break through as a star in her own right, said Jack Jorgensen, an editor with the sports and entertainment website Fansided. The WWE - then known as the World Wrestling Federation - hired Chyna in 1997 as a “bodyguard” for its marquee performer Triple H, with whom she later became romantically involved in real life and in the WWE’s scripted story lines. She trained at Walter “Killer” Kowalski’s wrestling school and eventually claimed she could bench press more than 280 pounds. ‘I can do that!’ I remember shouting at the TV,” she wrote. And she would shake her head at how the women were presented as a mere side show
Laurer wrote in her 2001 autobiography, “If They Only Knew,” that she watched wrestlers on television before she became one. Police initially reported the death as a possible overdose, Los Angeles County’s Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said.Īn autopsy was planned in the next few days, he said, but it could be weeks before the toxicology results are known. Investigators didn’t immediately release a cause of death but noted there were no indications of foul play. They were responding to a 911 call from a friend who said the former World Wrestling Entertainment performer failed to answer her phone for a few days. On Wednesday, police found the 46-year-old dead in her Redondo Beach apartment.
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