Борцовская карьера
Начало
Лаурер в роли Чайны Долл в 1997 году.
Лаурер тренируется в школе борьбы Киллера Ковальски в Салеме, где у нее краткое время были отношения с Перри Сатулло . Она начала с Международной федерации борьбы , федерации Ковальски.
Всемирная федерация борьбы (1997-2001)
Хотя Лаурер все еще работает в Международной федерации борьбы , она получает предложения от World Championship Wrestling стать первой женщиной-членом клана Нового Мирового Порядка . Именно тогда она встречает Шона Майклза и Хантера Херста Хелмсли, которые хотят, чтобы она была их телохранителем. Убийце Ковальски удается убедить Шейна Макмэна дать ему шанс.
Оказывается , в первый раз на телевидении на сырье , где она находится на переднем крае и делает заднюю подсос Марлен , то слуга из Goldust , Goldust после операции в матче между Hunter Hearst Helmsley (HHH) в Rocky Maivia . Она берет имя Чайна и становится телохранителем HHH.
Тотальная борьба без остановки (2011)
В 2011 году она возобновила карьеру рестлера на несколько недель, ненадолго проработав в TNA, чтобы сыграть смешанный командный матч с Куртом Энглом против своего бывшего соперника Джеффа Джарретта и его жены Карен Джарретт во время платной трансляции Sacrifice 2011 . Чайна выигрывает матч за свою команду, отбрасывая Карен. Это будет его последний бой.
Legacy
Numerous commentators have credited Chyna as being influential to women’s wrestling and one of the biggest stars of WWF’s Attitude Era. Commentator and former WWE official Jim Ross called her, «the distinctive athlete was to WWE what Ronda Rousey has been to UFC», while E! News said that she accomplished more in her near-decade career than any other woman. Others praised her as a feminist icon who defied gender norms; Dawn Heinecken, a professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Louisville, wrote in 2004 that «She was demonized as a feminist who challenged male dominance … Her latest, and most popular incarnation was that of a sex symbol». She was the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble match and is the only woman to have held the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Luke Winkie of Sports Illustrated listed her as the 79th greatest wrestler of all time, while WWE named her the fourth greatest «Female Superstar in Modern WWE History» in 2021. Beth Phoenix credits her with «breaking down doors» in the industry, and Kimber Lee credits Chyna as her motivation for entering wrestling.
Paul Levesque on Chyna’s Hall of Fame induction.
The day following her death, a post on WWE.com expressed sadness about it and featured a video of her winning the Women’s Championship. After years without acknowledging Laurer, WWE played a posthumous tribute video on the April 25 episode of Raw. A short memorial article was also published on Howard Stern’s official website, lamenting her death and describing her as «fan favorite great sense of humor about herself.»
Columnist Mike Mooneyham of The Post and Courier stated after Chyna’s death that it was «an oft-asked question» as to when she would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Jim Ross said that Chyna had an «overwhelming desire» to be inducted during her lifetime. On February 9, 2015, during a WWE Network podcast with Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul Levesque mentioned that Chyna deserved to be in the Hall of Fame but that her career in pornography prohibited it. In interviews shortly after her death, Levesque said that she «definitely warranted» a place in the Hall of Fame and Stephanie McMahon said she was sure Chyna would be inducted but did not know what year it would happen.
Chyna was announced as an inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2019 on February 18, 2019, as part of D-Generation X. Levesque spoke to ESPN of the «complexities» he mentioned on the 2015 Austin podcast, but after describing her in-ring accomplishments he said she «100 percent deserves» the honor. Although she was being inducted as part of a group, Levesque said that she deserved to be inducted a second time as well for her individual career. Shawn Michaels also endorsed the idea of her being inducted a second time, stating: «Of all the people in this group, and D-Generation X as a whole is deserving, but I don’t think there’s anybody that would argue that is not the most deserving of .»
Posthumous documentary
On April 20, 2017, a trailer was released for Wrestling with Chyna, a special documentary featuring Chyna’s life from almost her very beginning, to after she left the wrestling business, to her last days of life. On June 16, 2021, Vice TV aired the documentary with exclusive interviews from friends and family members and her manager Anthony Anzaldo.
Joanie Laurer’s later life would spin out of control
Her hoped-for
acting career didn’t work out the way Joanie Laurer wanted. Although she had a
few minor TV roles, the career in mainstream movies never materialized.
Instead, she made a string of adult videos from 2004-13, including one that was
honored at the Adult Video News Awards as the best-selling video of the year.
In between, she appeared in the reality series The Surreal Life and on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
By
2012 she was in Japan teaching English to students even as she remained a topic
of conversation among wrestling fans. She returned to the U.S. in 2015 but
without a career in wrestling or acting to resume. Friends said that she
experienced bouts of depression and continued to battle decade-long addictions while
living in Redondo Beach, California.
After
not being heard from for several days, Laurer was found dead at home on April
17, 2016. The cause of death was determined to be an accidental overdose.
Laurer had asked to have her brain donated for CTE research. Her cremated remains were reported to be scattered at sea.
She was inducted into
the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019.
Filmography
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | Beyond the Mat | Herself | Documentary |
| Chyna & Triple H: It’s Our Time | |||
| 2000 | Chyna Fitness: More Than Meets the Eye | Fitness Video | |
| 2001 | Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion | Ava Zurich | Feature Film |
| On the Line | One of Rod’s dates | ||
| 2002 | Frank McKlusky, C.I. | Freeda | |
| Joanie Laurer Warrior Princess | Herself | ||
| 2003 | Hunter: Back in Force | Brandy Rose | Direct to Video |
| Romp | Lulu | Short | |
| 2005 | 101 Reasons Not to Be a Pro Wrestler | Herself | Documentary |
| 2006 | Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy | Roxanne | Direct to Video |
| 2007 | Illegal Aliens | Rex | |
| Cougar Club | Teddy Archibald | ||
| 2011 | Losing Control | Barb | Feature Film |
| 2012 | A Night at the Silent Movie Theater | Sexy Drummer | |
| 2013 | White T | Psychic | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | Pacific Blue | Frank Finlay | «One Kiss Goodbye» |
| 1999 | The Martin Short Show | Herself | #1.44 |
| 2000 | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Janice | «This Little Dick Went to Market»»The Big Giant Head Returns Again: Part 1 and 2» |
| Pacific Blue | Tonya Sweet | «Kidnapped» | |
| Mad TV | Herself | #6.5 | |
| MTV Cribs | «Laurer, Tony Hawk, and Usher» | ||
| 2001 | Celebrity Deathmatch | «Where Is Einstein’s Brain?» | |
| Gary & Mike | «Road Rage» | ||
| Fear Factor | «First Celebrity Fear Factor» | ||
| 2001-2002 | Tracker | Rhee | «Pilot» / «Remember When» |
| 2002 | Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | Mary Jo Ponder | «Driving Mr. Goodman» |
| The Nick Cannon Show | Herself | «Nick Takes Over Fitness» | |
| Relic Hunter | Natasha Tripova | «Antianeirai» | |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Herself | #5.8 | |
| The Anna Nicole Show | «The Anna Nicole Show Holiday Special» | ||
| 2005 | The Surreal Life | Series role | |
| 2006 | My Fair Brady | «Love On the Rocks (Therapy Part 1)» | |
| 2007 | The Surreal Life: Fame Games | Series role | |
| 2008 | Celebrity Rehab | Series role |
Adult Films
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 1 Night in China | Herself |
| 2009 | Another Night in China | Herself |
| 2011 | Backdoor to Chyna | Herself |
| 2012 | Avengers XXX: A Porn Parody | She-Hulk |
| 2012 | Chyna is Queen of the Ring | Herself |
| 2013 | She Hulk XXX: A Porn Parody | She-Hulk |
Video games
| WWE Video games | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Notes | Ref |
| 1999 | WWF Attitude | — | |
| WWF WrestleMania 2000 | — | ||
| 2000 | WWF SmackDown! | Cover Athlete | |
| WWF No Mercy | — | ||
| WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role | Cover Athlete | ||
| 2019 | WWE 2K20 | — | |
| 2021 | WWE 2K Battlegrounds | — | |
| 2022 | WWE 2K22 | — | |
| 2023 | WWE 2K23 | — |
Other media
Playboy
Chyna autographing her Playboy issue in 2007
Laurer modeled nude for Playboy in the November 2000 issue. In 2002, following her departure from the WWF, she appeared in a second nude pictorial. She also filmed a Playboy adult documentary, Joanie Laurer Nude: Wrestling Superstar to Warrior Princess, which followed her on the set.
Television and film
Laurer appeared on The Howard Stern Show in 2000, where she claimed she «made out of self.» She also appeared in 3rd Rock from the Sun as Janice, a police officer who briefly dated Harry Solomon, and in several Stacker 2 commercials. She was a presenter at the MTV Video Music Awards.
In 2001, she was a guest on a special celebrity edition of Fear Factor. She lost in the final round of the competition to Coolio. She provided her voice for stop-motion animation renditions of herself in Celebrity Deathmatch and Gary & Mike. The next year, she was reportedly up for a part in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, but lost the role to Kristanna Loken. She hosted Robot Wars: Grand Champions in 2002, and appeared on the celebrity game show Hollywood Squares in 2003.
Laurer appeared as Lulu in Sevendust’s music video for the song «Enemy» in 2003.
In early 2005, she debuted on The Surreal Life with housemates Da Brat, Jane Wiedlin, Adrianne Curry, Christopher Knight, Marcus Schenkenberg and Verne Troyer. On the show, she drank heavily, appeared nude, and got into an argument with her ex, Sean Waltman. She remained friends with Adrianne Curry after the show and made a brief cameo on her reality show My Fair Brady. She also appeared on The Surreal Life: Fame Games, which began airing on VH1 in January 2007. Filming took place in April 2006 in Las Vegas. She was eliminated from the show in the seventh episode.
Also in 2006, Laurer appeared in Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy and Illegal Aliens, the latter of which was the last movie featuring Anna Nicole Smith before her death. On Cristina’s Court, a syndicated court-themed reality show, Laurer appeared in an episode originally airing July 14, 2007, in a civil dispute against a breeder of teacup chihuahuas. Judge Perez ruled in her favor and awarded her $4,000.
Adult films
Laurer made her adult film debut with the 2004 video 1 Night in China. Laurer and Sean Waltman approached Red Light District Video to distribute the homemade video, which was released in 2004. Laurer appeared in her second adult video, Another Night in China in 2009. In 2011, she starred in her first professional pornographic film for Vivid Video, Backdoor to Chyna. She also starred for Vivid as She-Hulk in their parody of The Avengers, released in May 2012. A spinoff feature centered on the She-Hulk character, She-Hulk XXX, was released to video in April 2013.
In one of her final YouTube videos before her death, she said that she’d had no ambitions to go into porn, but was «making lemonade out of lemons» after the video of her and X-Pac was released «without her permission».
Чемпионаты и достижения
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Всемирная федерация борьбы
- Интерконтинентальный чемпионат WWF (2 раза). Первая и единственная женщина, добившаяся этого. ]
- Чемпионат WWF среди женщин (1 раз). Он никогда не терял его в бою.
- Зал славы WWE ( ) как член D-Generation X.
- Первая женщина, выигравшая мужской титул.
- Первая женщина, участвовавшая в Royal Rumble , а также единственная женщина, участвовавшая в мужском матче более одного раза (2).
- Первая и единственная женщина, участвовавшая в « Короле ринга» (1999).
- Единственная женщина, ставшая претенденткой №1 на чемпионат WWE (1999).
- Единственная женщина, которая боролась за титул чемпиона WWF в полутяжелом весе против Дина Маленко (2000).
- Первая женщина, которая боролась за командный чемпионат WWF вместе с Эдди Герреро против Эджа и Кристиана (2000).
- Единственная женщина, выигравшая Королевскую битву среди мужчин (Corporate Rumble 1999).
Чайна (Chyna)
Чайна (Chyna), урождённая Джоан Мари Лорер (Joan Marie Laurer). Родилась 27 декабря 1969 года в Рочестере, Нью-Йорк — умерла 20 апреля 2016 года в Редондо-Бич, Калифорния. Американский рестлер, модель, порноактриса и культуристка. Член Зала Славы WWE с 2019 года в составе D-Generation X.
Чайна родилась 27 декабря 1969 года в городе Рочестер, штат Нью-Йорк.
Чайна впервые получила известность во время дебюта в World Wrestling Federation (WWF) в 1997 году, где она выступала под сценическим именем Чайна и была объявлена «Девятым чудом света» (Андре Гигант был уже объявлен Восьмым).
Будучи членом группировки D-Generation X, она выиграла титул Интерконтинентального чемпиона WWE (первая женщина-рестлер, сделавшая это) и женский титул WWF, а также была первой женщиной-рестлером, участвовавшей в шоу «Королевская битва» и «Король ринга».
После ухода из WWF в 2001 году Чайна выступала нерегулярно, прежде всего в федерациях New Japan Pro Wrestling в 2002 году и Total Nonstop Action Wrestling в 2011 году.
Вне реслинга Чайна появлялась в журнале Playboy два раза, а также в многочисленных телевизионные шоу и фильмах.
В 2005 году Лорер снималась в реалити-шоу на канале VH1 под названием The Surreal Life, которое привело к появлению на канале ряда других реалити-шоу с участием знаменитостей, в том числе The Surreal Life: Fame Game в 2007 году и Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew в 2008 году.
Она также известна своими бурными отношениями с другим реслером Шоном Уолтменом, с которым она записала секс-видео. Оно было выпущено в 2004 году и озаглавлено 1 Night in China.
В 2012 году, Лорер расторгла контракт с Vivid Entertainment.
Последнее время жила в Японии, где преподавала английский язык.
Найдена мертвой 20 апреля 2016 года в своем доме в Лос-Анджелесе. Причиной смерти стала случайная передозировка лекарствами, выписанных ей от тревоги и бессонницы. Она была кремирована. Её мозг был пожертвован науке для изучения последствий хронической травматической энцефалопатии.
Рост Чайны: 178 сантиметров.
Личная жизнь Чайны:
С 1996 по 2001 год Лорер была в отношениях с коллегой-рестлером Полом «Triple H» Левеком. Поначалу они скрывали свои отношения от коллег, потому что Лорер считала, что люди могут подумать, что она получили славу «через постель».
С 2003 по 2005 год встречалась с коллегой-рестлером Шоном Уолтманом. В январе 2005 года Лорер была арестована за домашнее насилие после того, как якобы избила Уолтмана.
Фильмография Чайны
1993 — WWE RAW — камео
1996-2003 — Сабрина — маленькая ведьма (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch) — Mary Jo Ponder
1996-2000 — Полицейские на велосипедах (Pacific Blue) — Frank Finlay
1996-2001 — Третья планета от Солнца (3rd Rock from the Sun) — Janice
1998 — WWF Бойня в Манчестере (WWF Mayhem in Manchester) — камео
1998 — WWF Судный день (WWF Judgment Day) — камео
1999-2002 — Охотники за древностями (Relic Hunter) — Natasha Tripova
1999 — WWE SmackDown — камео
1999 — WWF Королевская битва (Royal Rumble: No Chance in Hell) — камео
2000 — Гнев пришельцев (Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion) — Ava Zurich
2000 — WWF РестлМания (WrestleMania) — камео
2001-2002 — Звездный охотник (Tracker) — Rhee
2001 — На связи (On the Line) — Female Handwrestler
2002 — Фрэнк Маккласки, страховой детектив (Frank McKlusky, C.I.) — Freeda
2003 — Alien Tracker — Ree
2003 — Хантер: Снова в деле (Hunter: Back in Force) — Brandy Rose
2004 — TNA Impact Wrestling — камео
2006 — Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy — Roxanne
2007 — Клуб «Кошечка» (Cougar Club) — Teddy Archibald
2007 — Инопланетянки-нелегалы (Illegal Aliens) — Rex
2011 — Задняя дверь к Чайне (Backdoor to Chyna) — камео
2011 — Жертвоприношение (Sacrifice) — камео
2011 — Доказательство любви (Losing Control) — Barb
2012 — A Night at the Silent Movie Theater — Sexy Drummer
2012 — Мстители: Пародия для взрослых (Avengers XXX: A Porn Parody) — Hulk
2013 — Белая футболка
2013 — Женщина-Халк: Пародия для взрослых (She-Hulk XXX: An Axel Braun Parody) — Hulk
последнее обновление информации: 02.11.2021
Chyna brings Joanie Laurer fame and wealth
Chyna appeared on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Jay Leno in 2000. | Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
In
1999, Chyna was selected to compete in the Royal Rumble, one of the promotion’s
top events. That was followed by a string of storylines in which she would
betray and then reunite with Triple H. With the contract of Intercontinental
Championship titleholder Jeff Jarrett expiring in 1999, promoter Vince McMahon
took the bold step of allowing Chyna to win that crown.
She would subsequently lose to Chris Jericho, but by then she was such a major drawing card that McMahon used her in a variety of ways, even turning her photo spread in the November 2000 issue of Playboy into a way to antagonize the Parents Television Council, which was in a real-life dispute with what was now known as the WWE.
By this point, Joanie Laurer was being billed as the Ninth Wonder of the World (Andre the Giant was the Eighth Wonder) and making several hundred thousand dollars a year in base pay plus bonuses from merchandising and pay-per-view shows. However, that would soon wind down. Laurer’s relationship with Triple H, her real-life boyfriend, had ended, and her contract was due to expire in late 2001.
Accounts
about the specifics vary, but Laurer’s contract demands were rejected,
prompting her and Vince McMahon to agree to part ways while she pursued an
acting career.
Другие СМИ
После ее смерти бывшая звезда WWE и ECW Николь Басс решила показать, что ненавидит Чайну, а Лорер ненавидит ее. Николь также сказала, что она дала Чайне совет быть более яркой на телевидении и иметь большую актуальность, используя одежду с глубоким вырезом или макияж. это выглядело очень мужественно, однако Лорер проигнорировал Басса и носил «бабушкину» одежду, и Николь подчеркнула, что Чайна вскоре после этого скопировала ее, поскольку она описывает, что внезапно начала носить очень откровенную одежду и обтягивающие вещи, а также большие грудные имплантаты, как у Николь в ЭКВ. Роль, которая изначально была у Чайны, была для Николь в WWF, но Triple H и Шон Майклз были на ее стороне, Басс сказал, что все хотели увидеть бой между ними, однако никто не хотел, так как это в конечном итоге было бы реальным, Ближайший угол, который у них был, был бой Чайны против Вал Венис, где Николь сопровождала Вениса, бой, в котором Чайна в конечном итоге ударила ее.
Видеоигры
Чайна появлялась в качестве игрового персонажа в следующих видеоиграх WWF/WWE: ]
- Отношение WWF
- WWF Рестлмания 2000
- Всемирный фонд дикой природы SmackDown!
- WWF Нет пощады
- Всемирный фонд дикой природы SmackDown! 2 Знай свою роль
- Чемпионы WWE
- Супер карта WWE
- ВВЕ 2К20
- WWE Mayhem
- ВВЕ 2К22
- Поля сражений WWE 2K
Актриса и модельная карьера
Лаурер на автограф-сессии для журнала Playboy в 2007 году.
В ноябрь 2000 г., она попала на обложку журнала Playboy . В 2002 году, после ухода из WWF, она также появилась в документальном фильме Playboy под названием «Обнаженная Джоани Лаурер» с подзаголовком «От суперзвезды реслинга до Королевы воинов».
Она несколько раз появлялась в телесериалах и игровых шоу с участием таких знаменитостей, как Hollywood Squares и Fear Factor (en) . В 2004 году Лаурер появилась в четвертом сезоне «Сюрреалистической жизни» на канале VH1.
В конце 2005 года Джоани снялась в фильме « Незаконные пришельцы» . ВАпрель 2006 г., она поехала в Вегас для съемок нового сериала « Игры славы» . Она делает несколько рекламных роликов для фильма « Незаконные пришельцы» . Затем она работает над другим фильмом с Фэй Данауэй, который называется «Клуб кугуаров» .
В 2004 году в Интернет просочилась ссылка на секс-видео Пэрис Хилтон « Одна ночь в Париже» под названием « 1 ночь в Чайне», снятая с ее тогдашним бойфрендом борцом Шоном Уолтманом. Виюнь 2011Джоани играет главную роль в своем первом порнографическом фильме, снятом большой студией Vivid Backdoor to Chyna . Будет продано более миллиона копий.
В 2012 году Джоани выпустила порнографический фильм, в котором упоминалась WWE с людьми, вспоминающими Джона Сину .
Death
On April 20, 2016, Laurer was found dead at her home in Redondo Beach, California. She was 46. Her manager Anthony Anzaldo was concerned when she did not post updates or content to her usual social media outlets for several days, and subsequently found her body in her apartment. Initial police reports stated that she appeared to have died of either an accidental drug overdose or of natural causes. Anzaldo suggested that any overdose was accidental, saying that she was prescribed drugs, but tended to use them improperly.
Her brain was donated to science to study the effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). However, the brain had naturally decomposed to a point where it could not be definitively determined whether Laurer had CTE. A memorial service was held in Los Angeles on June 22, 2016. Among the attendees were wrestlers Melina Perez, Rob Van Dam, Sean Waltman and Johnny Mantell; actors C. Thomas Howell and Barry Williams; Dennis Hof, owner of the Bunny Ranch; and singers Coolio and Baby Bash, who also performed during the memorial. Chyna was cremated and her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
A report of her autopsy was released in December 2016 which determined that she died on April 17 of an overdose of alcohol, combined with the anxiety drugs diazepam and nordazepam, painkillers oxycodone and oxymorphone, and sleeping aid temazepam.
Охотники за древностями (1999) (Relic Hunter)
Боевик, Детектив, Зарубежный сериал, Приключения, Фантастика, Фэнтези
tagЗавершён
Режиссеры:Хорхе Монтеси, Джонатан Хэкетт, Паоло Барзмен
В ролях:Линди Бут, Таня Ричерт, Луис Мэндилор
Сидни Фокс прозвали «охотник за древностями». Сидни путешествует по всему миру и занимается поисками похищенных древних артефактов. Эти артефакты Фокс возвращается в музеи или законным владельцам, у которых они были похищены. Сидни знает о древностях практически все, ей не составляет труда найти похищенную ценность, но ни одна Сидни занимается поисками таких сокровищ. Ей постоянно приходится сталкиваться с другими охотниками за древностями, которыми движут не столь альтруистичные цели, ими движет жажда наживы.
На связи (2001) (On the Line)
Зарубежный фильм, Комедия, Мелодрама, Семейный
Режиссер: Эрик Бросс
В ролях: Лэнс Басс, Джои Фатоне, Эммануэль Шрики
Для Кевина она была одной на миллион. С такой девушкой хотелось провести всю жизнь. Какой шанс обрести утраченные чувства, если они была допущена ошибка? Каждый может совершить ошибку, а то и не одну. Кевин совершил ужасную ошибку: он не взял у неё номер телефона. Мало того, он не знает её имени, и не знает, где она хотя бы примерно обитает. Чикаго огромный, и как её отыскать среди толпы людей? Но ему удаётся выйти из этой ситуации победителем. Да так выйти, что его история попала на первые полосы газет. Теперь ему каждый день названивают сотни желающих познакомиться с ним. Вот только Кевину нужна одна единственная.
Personal life
Laurer’s breast implants were custom-made for her after her first implants were ruptured during a wrestling match. She had also complained to her plastic surgeon that their largest implants did not suit her frame as she desired. The custom implants became the model for the Chyna 2000s, now marketed to large-framed women and female bodybuilders. Laurer said she paid $6,000 for them.
Laurer with Paul «Triple H» Levesque, whom she dated from 1996 to 2000
From 1996 until 2000, Laurer dated fellow wrestler Paul «Triple H» Levesque. They initially hid their relationship from their co-workers because she felt people might think she » her way to the top». They also lived together for some time. There is some debate as to whether Levesque started his relationship with Stephanie McMahon while still with Laurer. However, after Laurer’s death, her sister Kathy Hamilton told Bleacher Report that while Levesque «was very good to Joanie», the couple disagreed about future family plans (Levesque wanted children and Laurer did not), and that Laurer’s addictions and mental health problems also contributed to their breakup.
Beginning in 2003, Laurer had a tumultuous relationship with fellow wrestler Sean Waltman. They were engaged for a period in 2003, then broke up, then became engaged again, a pattern that continued for the next two years. In 2004, they released a sex tape which was filmed in 2003. Eager for a repeat success, the company that released Paris Hilton’s celebrity sex tape obtained the footage, edited it, and released it under the name 1 Night in China. It sold over 100,000 copies, with Laurer and Waltman earning a share of the profits. Laurer, however, maintained that she did not earn any money from the release. In January 2005, she was arrested for domestic assault after allegedly beating Waltman in front of his children.
Chyna at the 2007 Scream Awards
On February 8, 2007, a visibly upset Laurer appeared on Larry King Live to speak about her friend Anna Nicole Smith, who had died earlier that day. Laurer said that she «knew it was coming» because of how the media ridiculed Smith, and she drew parallels between the plight of Smith and herself. However, the wife of the CEO of Trim Spa, Monique Goen, stated that Smith did not consider Laurer a friend.
After leaving the WWF, Laurer was unable to use the name «Chyna» because of its trademark. She began using the name «Chyna Doll» for public appearances. In November 2007, she legally changed her name to Chyna.
She also had problems with substance abuse. She said that her «life was spinning out of control» around the time she made the sex tape. In January 2005, Waltman said that she was battling drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental illness. Days after the domestic dispute between Waltman and Laurer, it was reported in the New York Post that she had removed her clothes and jumped into a fish tank in a New York nightclub. That month, she made another appearance on The Howard Stern Show, where she was described as «slurring her words, contradicting herself and launching into random tangents that were impossible to follow.» On the program, she said she did not want to do drugs anymore, but said that if a line of cocaine was in front of her, she would do it. After her appearance, she entered a facility specializing in depression recovery, and decided to stop drinking. In early 2008, she appeared on the VH1 reality TV show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, but said on the show that she did not consider herself an addict. On December 27, 2008, she was rushed to the hospital after her birthday party, where she was found unconscious with cuts on her arms.
Laurer had a strained relationship with her family. She last saw her mother at the age of 16, and she said that her father was never able to get over her decision not to pursue a career in law enforcement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She also alleged that her father took out several student loans in her name without her knowledge, leaving her with $40,000 in debt. On an episode of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew in 2008, Laurer said she had a bad relationship with all of her family members, including her siblings. In September 2010, Laurer was hospitalized after overdosing on sleeping medication. Laurer later re-established a good relationship with her mother; her father died on May 15, 2014.
From early 2012 until mid-2015, Laurer taught English in Japan. She converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while there.