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Announcer:
Hello, again, everybody,

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and welcome to Monday Night Raw!

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We're live from the beautiful
Nashville Arena.

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Mick:
I vividly recall seeing Chyna
for the first time in Tennessee.

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At the time,
I was the character Mankind

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and not too many people
knew what I looked like.

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I'd sit out in the crowd with my
family and not get bothered

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a whole lot.
Announcer: She slapped Helmsley

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right in the nose!
- At a certain point of the show,

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here comes, out of the crowd,

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this Amazon of a woman,

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and begins shaking
Terri Runnels like a rag doll.

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There's that moment again!

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That moment, huge moment!

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Just bear-hugging Marlena

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and shaking her... Man down!

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I remember my wife said,
"Oh, my God.

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Who is this...
Who is this woman?

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Is... Is she from the crowd?

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She's going to tear
Terri Runnels apart."

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Who is that person?

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Through the arena, I saw her
and I went, "Holy cow!

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That's probably the most
impressive girl I've ever seen."

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Russo:
I'll never forget
the first time I saw Joanie.

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She was stunning.

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That was the only word
I could think of.

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Stunning.

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Mick:
No one had ever seen
the likes of her before.

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In my mind, we haven't seen
the likes of her since.

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I've wrestled men,
I've wrestled women,

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and I beat them all.

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And anybody else
that steps in that ring

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is going to do the same thing

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because I'm going
to leave them behind me

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like the trash,
I left it out yesterday morning.

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Mr. Ass:
Wrestling guys,
and then, wrestling her

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was really no difference.

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She just hit
a lot harder than guys.

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Announcer:
And look at Chyna, now,
with a forearm to Mr. Ass.

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She was the main thing.

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She was the Stone Cold.

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It was Chyna.

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{\an3}Like that was a thing.

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The Ninth Wonder of the World!

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Chyna!

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Everyone knew who she was.

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My athletic ability
and love of entertainment,

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I put the two together and Chyna
became a household name.

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Announcer:
The Ninth Wonder of the World

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making history.

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I very much see myself
as the Wonder Woman 2000.

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- Oh!
- Chyna!

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As a woman who takes control,

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is an equal athlete
to the men that she fights.

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Oh!

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You kind of make it
to the top of Everest,

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air's too thin,
you can't live there,

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so you got to go down.

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Karen: Joanie was all
about trusting people,

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being loyal.

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[ Crying ]
Shame on Triple H.

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He broke her heart.

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There's no other way
to say that.

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Mick: It's something
that the company's

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actually very good at doing,

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and they did it with Joanie,

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which is that,
once she was let go,

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it's like she was
completely erased.

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{\an1}[ Crying ] This is just
a... up business.

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Diesel:
Nobody wanted her.

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Everybody had had enough of her.

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She needed help.

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I have no family.

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{\an3}I have no friends.

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Rob:
I could tell that

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we were in for a wild ride
that summer.

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Why didn't somebody
do something earlier?

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Who the... are you
talking to?

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I'm Chyna, bitch!

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I know my friend Joanie
as Joanie.

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I don't want to know her
as Chyna because, in my opinion,

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[ Crying ]
it was her being Chyna

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that took my friend
into a dark place

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that she could not come out of.

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It's hard to go back to L.A.,

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kind of feeling like you know,

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not so glamorous, I guess.

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For the last three years,

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I have been in Tokyo, Japan.

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I felt like I was really
misconceived in the public eye.

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Suddenly, I wasn't remembered

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for all the great things
I did in wrestling.

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I'd become this monster,
you know,

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without, to me,
doing anything wrong.

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♪♪

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Yeah, it's weird,
the things that I'm thinking of.

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I'm thinking
about the way I look

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because it's hitting me now,
like how long I've been here

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and how out of the, you know,
that bubble I've been

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and I know everybody's going
to kind of be...

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you know,

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looking at me, critiquing me.

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♪♪

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I spoke with my manager today.

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Was really excited that we are
on the right track

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and that makes me feel
really excited.

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[ Sigh ]

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It's all hitting me now.

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♪♪

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I'm feeling really nervous about

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making it to the other side.

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♪♪

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We'll... We'll get
into the specifics

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of what we're doing
for the next two weeks,

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really kind of when you land,

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because it gives us
something to shoot to,

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but you're going
to be meeting the team,

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two of which are with us now.

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Hey, Chyna,
my name's Erik.
How are you doing?

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<i>Hi, Erik.</i>

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What we've got going,

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what we're going to be shooting,

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what we're going to be doing,

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is going to be great.

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I mean, you got to be you.

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Only you know what you've
been through,

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<i>- Yeah, yeah.
</i>- you know, but,
at the end of the day,

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it's about just being happy
all. the. time, period.

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♪♪

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<i>Hi, guys!</i>

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<i>It's Chyna, here.</i>

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<i>You know me</i>

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<i>and I'm coming home to America.</i>

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<i>Just my ticket home.</i>

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I'm about to embark
on this documentary

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<i>and I promise I'm going
to give you the </i>whole <i>story.</i>

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[ Plane engines whine ]

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Day 1 of the year-long
documentary

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of "The Reconstruction
of Chyna."

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By the end of all of this,
she's going to face her demons

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and I think we're going to get

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Chyna naked,
both figuratively and, trust me,

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literally, at some point
throughout this process.

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Right, so let's just get
a clean intro from you,

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like, "Hi, I'm Rob
I'm the producer."

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Just strike [indistinct]
- Yep.

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Hey, what's up?
I'm Rob Potylo.

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I am one of the producers

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of "The Reconstruction
of Chyna."

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I like that, but that with like,
"And a fan,"

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like "I'm one of the producers,
and a huge fan."

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Yes!
Let me know.

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Okay, let's start
at the beginning.

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The footage of you in the car.

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You are so happy.

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Yeah. I mean,
because there was something

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about everybody putting
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at the beginning,
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It just seems right
because she's amazing.

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This was going to be
a 365-day documentary

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that showed
the total reconstruction

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of her coming back from Japan,
being reembraced

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by the culture
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and everything was going
to be beautiful.

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And that lasted for about, yeah,

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four to five days,
[ Laughing ] you know?

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That's... That's going...
We're going to talk about that.

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I'm excited to be on a road
trip with these guys.

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This is an all-star team.

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{\an3}I'm not going
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{\an3}because you're
the documentarian,

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but you are here.

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{\an3}I just really wanted
to connect <i>you</i>

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{\an3}with Anthony,
to bring Chyna here.

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Anthony: [ Speaks indistinctly ]
Chyna: Okay.

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Anthony:
Do you feel like coming
back is going to trigger

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{\an1}you wanting to maybe go
back to that crazy life?

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I hope not.
I think it's a matter of

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managing what I'm doing

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and having the support...

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And the right people around.

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Of course.

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I'm going to try to do
everything I can.

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I'm going to try to do it
the right way.

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- Are you doing Xanax?
- No.

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I have another
anti-anxiety medication

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that they put me on in Japan,

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which I have,
but I very rarely use, like.

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What do you use when you sleep?

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Halcion and Rohypnol.

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Mm.

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Also, that's where, you know,

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a lot of the alcohol came
into play, you know?

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I would be like so anxious
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you'd need a Mack truck
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until I'd just work
all that out, you know?

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All that energy and anxiety
and everything was horrible.

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We basically walked
around New York as a pack

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and Anthony pretty much
explained to Chyna

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how the whole process
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the reconstruction of Chyna.

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Seemed like the clear directive

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was getting her onto the
Comic-Con circuit again.

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And me and Erik, the director,
are like,

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"This is not the documentary."

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It was weird.

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My job, when Chyna came back,
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to... to introduce her
to this way of thinking...

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You don't have to live
with the glass half empty.

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Everything's how you look at it.

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She was, "Well, does anybody
still know who I am?"

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Girl, you're more popular today
than you were <i>ever.</i>

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So, we'll be doing appearances,
crazy appearances...

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Comic-Cons, backyard wrestling
brawls, all of it.

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We'll put you on celebrity
reality television.

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You're fresh meat again.

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Sweetie, I got you.

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I think I was the very happiest
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and, every day, I would just...

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I loved... I loved life
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It was amazing.

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And then, you know,
I experienced hardships

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that I never could have
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But I feel that

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"there's something in the air"
type of thing,

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[ Chuckle ]
that the timing is right

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for whatever's going
to happen now.

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My name's Joanie Lee.

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I've been training really hard
at the gym every day

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and the reason for this is,
is because I feel that it's time

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for a new breed
of female pro wrestlers.

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I was called everything
from a man to a lesbian,

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to just extremely rejected
and extremely unaccepted.

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00:10:48.147 --> 00:10:49.542
Even at a very young age,

247
00:10:49.566 --> 00:10:50.793
there was something different
about her,

248
00:10:50.817 --> 00:10:53.254 line:5%
but she hadn't identified
that, yet.

249
00:10:53.278 --> 00:10:57.466 line:5%
You know, she... she hadn't
found her... her people.

250
00:10:57.490 --> 00:11:00.803
Especially through her teens,
her physical body

251
00:11:00.827 --> 00:11:03.180
was a struggle for her
because I think she knew

252
00:11:03.204 --> 00:11:05.432
that she had the capability
of being strong,

253
00:11:05.456 --> 00:11:08.143
but she didn't know how
to embrace that.

254
00:11:08.167 --> 00:11:09.603
I was always an athlete,

255
00:11:09.627 --> 00:11:12.231
since the time
I was 15 years old.

256
00:11:12.255 --> 00:11:13.524
I started lifting weights,

257
00:11:13.548 --> 00:11:15.526
watching my brother
and his friends.

258
00:11:15.550 --> 00:11:17.611
Mostly men who were
very supportive,

259
00:11:17.635 --> 00:11:20.614
egging me on to lift
more weight every day

260
00:11:20.638 --> 00:11:25.452
and who really made me
feel proud and cool.

261
00:11:25.476 --> 00:11:27.204
In a lot of ways,
maybe, growing up,

262
00:11:27.228 --> 00:11:31.083
there was a lack of control
and she could start to learn

263
00:11:31.107 --> 00:11:33.460
what it was like
to manipulate her body,

264
00:11:33.484 --> 00:11:36.046
to create what
she wanted to create.

265
00:11:36.070 --> 00:11:37.548
She could control that.

266
00:11:37.572 --> 00:11:42.136
I think it made
her feel confident.

267
00:11:42.160 --> 00:11:46.640
Chyna:
That's when I decided that I was
going to become an actress.

268
00:11:46.664 --> 00:11:48.642
I wanted to be on TV.

269
00:11:48.666 --> 00:11:51.186
I wanted to be a movie star.

270
00:11:51.210 --> 00:11:53.314
Being one to never take no
for an answer,

271
00:11:53.338 --> 00:11:57.651
I would drive five hours
for a two-second audition

272
00:11:57.675 --> 00:12:00.738
where I knew that I wasn't
right for the part.

273
00:12:00.762 --> 00:12:03.490
When people would see me,
they'd go, "Wow.

274
00:12:03.514 --> 00:12:05.326
She's different-looking."

275
00:12:05.350 --> 00:12:07.037
- [ Laughs ]
- Anthony: Right.

276
00:12:07.063 --> 00:12:09.496
Was realizing
that I was not going to fit

277
00:12:09.520 --> 00:12:14.376
into the average role on TV.

278
00:12:14.400 --> 00:12:16.670
But I still craved
that entertainment

279
00:12:16.694 --> 00:12:19.214
and all of the things
that I had wanted

280
00:12:19.238 --> 00:12:23.010
since I was a little girl,
that made me happy.

281
00:12:23.034 --> 00:12:27.514
Was a period of time where she
was really sort of floundering.

282
00:12:27.538 --> 00:12:29.516
I said, "Put everything
you own in your car

283
00:12:29.540 --> 00:12:32.770
and just come here,"
because she didn't have any...

284
00:12:32.794 --> 00:12:34.605
She didn't have a relationship.

285
00:12:34.629 --> 00:12:35.898
She didn't have a job.

286
00:12:35.922 --> 00:12:37.566
She had no money.

287
00:12:37.590 --> 00:12:40.736
And I think we were really,
really, really close.

288
00:12:40.760 --> 00:12:42.404
I had Joanie.
Joanie had me.

289
00:12:42.428 --> 00:12:46.158
And so we hit the gym.

290
00:12:46.182 --> 00:12:49.286
That's also when Gerry
entered the picture.

291
00:12:49.310 --> 00:12:52.706 line:5%
My role was specifically
to help her prepare

292
00:12:52.730 --> 00:12:55.417 line:5%
for a fitness competition.

293
00:12:55.441 --> 00:12:58.295
For days to follow
that first, initial meeting,

294
00:12:58.319 --> 00:12:59.964
I couldn't stop thinking
about it.

295
00:12:59.988 --> 00:13:02.257 line:5%
♪♪

296
00:13:02.281 --> 00:13:04.593
I was extremely impressed,

297
00:13:04.617 --> 00:13:08.222
more than I ever had done
for any other person.

298
00:13:08.246 --> 00:13:09.974
We started seeing each other.

299
00:13:09.998 --> 00:13:13.727
It evolved into a relationship.

300
00:13:13.751 --> 00:13:18.065
Everything that she did
was something to better herself,

301
00:13:18.089 --> 00:13:21.819
to be that one thing she knew
she was destined for,

302
00:13:21.843 --> 00:13:24.321
but she didn't quite know
what it was, yet.

303
00:13:24.345 --> 00:13:26.407
You're spinning that wheel
of occupations

304
00:13:26.431 --> 00:13:29.576
{\an1}and what made... "Wrestling.
That's what I want to do"?

305
00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:35.416
I watched it on TV one night
and I was not a wrestling fan.

306
00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:39.294
Each person was such a character
and there was lights

307
00:13:39.318 --> 00:13:43.424
and people clapping
and screaming.

308
00:13:43.448 --> 00:13:45.926
And I said to my sister, I said,

309
00:13:45.950 --> 00:13:47.594
"I can do that.
That's how I'm going to do it.

310
00:13:47.618 --> 00:13:49.972
That's how I'm going
to make my mark."

311
00:13:49.996 --> 00:13:51.974
Kathy:
That is what planted the seed.

312
00:13:51.998 --> 00:13:53.934
She said,
"I'm going to explore this.

313
00:13:53.958 --> 00:13:56.311
Do you want to do it with me?"
And I said, "Nope."

314
00:13:56.335 --> 00:13:58.439
And that's how
she eventually ended up

315
00:13:58.463 --> 00:14:00.357
finding "Killer" Kowalski.

316
00:14:00.381 --> 00:14:02.401 line:5%
♪♪

317
00:14:02.425 --> 00:14:06.113
I walked into an old,
rickety gymnasium

318
00:14:06.137 --> 00:14:09.033
and there's this guy sitting

319
00:14:09.057 --> 00:14:11.118 line:5%
like humped over.

320
00:14:11.142 --> 00:14:12.828 line:5%
I'd say, "Mr. Kowalski?"

321
00:14:12.852 --> 00:14:14.204 line:5%
And he said, "Yes,"

322
00:14:14.228 --> 00:14:16.040 line:5%
and I said,
"I want to be a wrestler."

323
00:14:16.064 --> 00:14:19.585 line:5%
♪♪

324
00:14:19.609 --> 00:14:21.045
Man:
How long have
you been a wrestler?

325
00:14:21.069 --> 00:14:23.005
About six months

326
00:14:23.029 --> 00:14:26.967
and it feels like a lot longer

327
00:14:26.991 --> 00:14:29.511
because I have found my element,

328
00:14:29.535 --> 00:14:32.014
so I feel like
I've been doing it forever.

329
00:14:32.038 --> 00:14:33.975
- Man: Oh! Ooh!
- 1!

330
00:14:33.999 --> 00:14:35.642
Kathy:
She was there
every single day.

331
00:14:35.666 --> 00:14:38.520
She had black and blue
marks everywhere.

332
00:14:38.544 --> 00:14:40.439
She was exhausted.

333
00:14:40.463 --> 00:14:41.523
[ Crowd screaming ]

334
00:14:41.547 --> 00:14:44.359
Oh!

335
00:14:44.383 --> 00:14:46.219
And she loved it.

336
00:14:48.346 --> 00:14:50.199
Oh, God!

337
00:14:50.223 --> 00:14:53.577
And, eventually, he said,
"You're ready."

338
00:14:53.601 --> 00:14:55.913
Yes, I came
all the way from Boston,

339
00:14:55.937 --> 00:14:58.499
under the tutelage
of Killer Kowalski,

340
00:14:58.523 --> 00:15:00.417
to kick some butt down here.

341
00:15:00.441 --> 00:15:02.002
And let me tell you something.

342
00:15:02.026 --> 00:15:04.421
Ladies, I'm going
to get your belt

343
00:15:04.445 --> 00:15:05.839
and, guys, I'm going
for your belt!

344
00:15:05.863 --> 00:15:07.174
You hear that?

345
00:15:07.198 --> 00:15:08.675
I remember going to Marshalls

346
00:15:08.699 --> 00:15:10.719
and buying a bathing suit,
getting some big

347
00:15:10.743 --> 00:15:12.262
volleyball pads.
I didn't really know

348
00:15:12.286 --> 00:15:13.847
what I was doing.
I didn't know what it was like,

349
00:15:13.871 --> 00:15:15.432
you know.
Five people in the audience

350
00:15:15.456 --> 00:15:17.559
and I was thrilled, of course.

351
00:15:17.583 --> 00:15:19.144 line:5%
Man:
Get the hair.

352
00:15:19.168 --> 00:15:21.188 line:5%
Look at that, just throwing
her like a rag doll.

353
00:15:21.212 --> 00:15:23.107 line:5%
There's just nothing there.
You know what I'm saying?

354
00:15:23.131 --> 00:15:26.860
Karen:
I met Joanie in 1996
in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.

355
00:15:26.884 --> 00:15:28.904
Okay, ladies.
If you're ready, let's do it.

356
00:15:28.928 --> 00:15:30.489 line:5%
♪♪

357
00:15:30.513 --> 00:15:32.032
I'm a tall, big girl.

358
00:15:32.056 --> 00:15:34.409
Here's another tall, big girl
and I'm like,

359
00:15:34.433 --> 00:15:36.328
"Yes!
We're going to have fun."

360
00:15:36.352 --> 00:15:39.498
Ahhh!

361
00:15:39.522 --> 00:15:42.042
She would like throw
a forearm in my back

362
00:15:42.066 --> 00:15:45.129
and I would just stand up
and look at her and smile at her

363
00:15:45.153 --> 00:15:47.047
and I'm like, "Hit me."

364
00:15:47.071 --> 00:15:49.216
Ahh!

365
00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:50.843
She hit me and I hit the mat,

366
00:15:50.867 --> 00:15:53.720
so I think she understood
what I was saying.

367
00:15:53.744 --> 00:15:57.641
She wanted every little girl
that was not of a normal size

368
00:15:57.665 --> 00:16:01.353
to understand it's okay to be
athletic and be muscular.

369
00:16:01.377 --> 00:16:04.898
She wanted to take the pain
that she had felt for so long

370
00:16:04.922 --> 00:16:08.152
and make something good
about it.

371
00:16:08.176 --> 00:16:12.531
She felt like she could fit in
in pro wrestling...

372
00:16:12.555 --> 00:16:14.700
Ooh.

373
00:16:14.724 --> 00:16:17.411
When, honestly, it wasn't
the place she should've been.

374
00:16:17.435 --> 00:16:19.121
Joanie had no idea

375
00:16:19.145 --> 00:16:22.457
what the professional
wrestling underbelly was about.

376
00:16:22.481 --> 00:16:26.044 line:5%
♪♪

377
00:16:26.068 --> 00:16:29.256
Rob:
I-I thought this was
the beginning of so much good...

378
00:16:29.280 --> 00:16:31.592
[ Laughing ]

379
00:16:31.616 --> 00:16:36.305
but she was showing signs
that she wasn't ready.

380
00:16:36.329 --> 00:16:38.682
And Anthony was more like,

381
00:16:38.706 --> 00:16:40.559
"This is how she's going
to be, alright?

382
00:16:40.583 --> 00:16:42.519
I kind of knew
it was going to be like this.

383
00:16:42.543 --> 00:16:44.104
We got to get her
to this Comic-Con

384
00:16:44.128 --> 00:16:45.314
and we got to make sure that

385
00:16:45.338 --> 00:16:47.941
[ Striking ]
she does the job."

386
00:16:47.965 --> 00:16:50.152
Erik:
So, the past few days
have been pretty crazy.

387
00:16:50.176 --> 00:16:51.820
How are you feeling today?

388
00:16:51.844 --> 00:16:56.074
I'm feel pretty tired.

389
00:16:56.098 --> 00:16:59.203
Jet lag is starting
to set in now,

390
00:16:59.227 --> 00:17:00.662
but I'm hanging in there

391
00:17:00.686 --> 00:17:03.749
and it's been going like great

392
00:17:03.773 --> 00:17:06.835
and super excited about this.

393
00:17:06.859 --> 00:17:08.378
And what are we at today?

394
00:17:08.402 --> 00:17:12.007
So today we are at my first
autograph signing.

395
00:17:12.031 --> 00:17:13.258
Let's go.
Get over here.

396
00:17:13.282 --> 00:17:14.801
{\an1}You're the first person
to see Chyna

397
00:17:14.825 --> 00:17:17.095
in America in four years.
Hi!

398
00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:19.181
Oh, my God.
[ Laughs ]

399
00:17:19.205 --> 00:17:23.143
And that sort of became
a microcosm for the big picture

400
00:17:23.167 --> 00:17:26.688
of how we were going
to run things with Chyna.

401
00:17:26.712 --> 00:17:28.357
Anthony:
Come see Chyna!

402
00:17:28.381 --> 00:17:29.691
Woman:
Waited two hours...

403
00:17:29.715 --> 00:17:32.819
Come see Chyna!

404
00:17:32.843 --> 00:17:36.406
The fan support
that I have been getting...

405
00:17:36.430 --> 00:17:37.741
{\an1}You guys, if you guys
wouldn't mind

406
00:17:37.765 --> 00:17:40.369
moving back a little bit
for one second.

407
00:17:40.393 --> 00:17:42.663
After everything
that's happened,

408
00:17:42.687 --> 00:17:45.582
I come out here
and I get all the love,

409
00:17:45.606 --> 00:17:48.877
you know,
and I pick up some money.

410
00:17:48.901 --> 00:17:52.673
And I can pay my rent
and be back in the States

411
00:17:52.697 --> 00:17:57.010
and say, "I'm going to be okay
because you know what, Chyna?

412
00:17:57.034 --> 00:17:58.053
You're Chyna."

413
00:17:58.077 --> 00:18:01.223 line:5%
♪♪

414
00:18:01.247 --> 00:18:02.307 line:5%
Are you going to hug me?

415
00:18:02.331 --> 00:18:03.517 line:5%
[ Laughter ]

416
00:18:03.541 --> 00:18:05.602 line:5%
Hi, Joanie.

417
00:18:05.626 --> 00:18:06.853
How are you doing?

418
00:18:06.877 --> 00:18:08.772
You okay?

419
00:18:08.796 --> 00:18:10.482
{\an1}Tearing up
is a good thing, right?

420
00:18:10.506 --> 00:18:11.733
- I'm really happy to see you.
- [ Laughs ]

421
00:18:11.757 --> 00:18:13.318
{\an3}Thank you. I'm happy
to see you, too.

422
00:18:13.342 --> 00:18:15.529
Welcome home.
- [ Laughs ]

423
00:18:15.553 --> 00:18:17.781
Manchild:
Being a wrestler is
about trust.

424
00:18:17.805 --> 00:18:22.035
You trust people with your body

425
00:18:22.059 --> 00:18:26.248
and, when the trust isn't there,
the matches just don't work.

426
00:18:26.272 --> 00:18:27.457
I mean, I never would've known

427
00:18:27.481 --> 00:18:30.210
that someone smelled so good.

428
00:18:30.234 --> 00:18:31.670
This is really enjoyable.

429
00:18:31.694 --> 00:18:33.171
That same trust

430
00:18:33.195 --> 00:18:35.549
that allows you to flourish
inside the ring

431
00:18:35.573 --> 00:18:38.385
can hurt people outside of it

432
00:18:38.409 --> 00:18:42.848
because you go from this
wild world of pro wrestling,

433
00:18:42.872 --> 00:18:45.142
where, at least,
there's an understanding

434
00:18:45.166 --> 00:18:48.687
that I can trust you
with my life,

435
00:18:48.711 --> 00:18:50.564
and then, you go
to the outside world,

436
00:18:50.588 --> 00:18:52.858
where everybody wants
a piece of you.

437
00:18:52.882 --> 00:18:56.111
And everybody wanted
a piece of Joanie.

438
00:18:56.135 --> 00:18:57.904
I've always had
a lot of love for him

439
00:18:57.928 --> 00:19:00.574
and he's always been
a special person to me,

440
00:19:00.598 --> 00:19:03.243
so, it's just really
great to see him

441
00:19:03.267 --> 00:19:07.039
and I know like, you know,
just one look

442
00:19:07.063 --> 00:19:10.792
would sum up like a whole past.

443
00:19:10.816 --> 00:19:14.004
It's many years
since I seen him.

444
00:19:14.028 --> 00:19:15.964 line:5%
♪♪

445
00:19:15.988 --> 00:19:17.799
Manchild:
I think she trusted a lot.

446
00:19:17.823 --> 00:19:20.344
I think it came back
to hurt her quite a bit.

447
00:19:20.368 --> 00:19:22.054
Let's sign some autographs
for the people!

448
00:19:22.078 --> 00:19:23.722
After I saw her

449
00:19:23.746 --> 00:19:25.724
and had such
an emotional moment with her,

450
00:19:25.748 --> 00:19:28.101
I remember thinking like

451
00:19:28.125 --> 00:19:31.271
I wasn't sure if she
was ready to go back

452
00:19:31.295 --> 00:19:34.399
and be part
of some provocative stuff.

453
00:19:34.423 --> 00:19:38.862
I wasn't sure that was
what was best for her.

454
00:19:38.886 --> 00:19:41.972 line:5%
♪♪

455
00:19:46.018 --> 00:19:46.995
Here's this billion-dollar
business, right?

456
00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:48.455
Like this whole

457
00:19:48.479 --> 00:19:50.123
trendset, like this whole...

458
00:19:50.147 --> 00:19:54.419
Wrestling is part of culture,
right? In a sense.

459
00:19:54.443 --> 00:19:57.089
Don't you want a success story?

460
00:19:57.113 --> 00:19:59.966
I want to be one of those
people. [ Laughs wryly ]

461
00:19:59.990 --> 00:20:02.719
I want to be a success
out of the wrestling

462
00:20:02.743 --> 00:20:04.638
and I would think that...
- Wait a minute. First of all,

463
00:20:04.662 --> 00:20:06.598
{\an9}let me clarify
something for you.

464
00:20:06.622 --> 00:20:08.517 line:5%
You are a su... What?

465
00:20:08.541 --> 00:20:11.019 line:5%
"I'm going to be
a success story"?

466
00:20:11.043 --> 00:20:13.939 line:5%
You are a success story!

467
00:20:13.963 --> 00:20:17.109
There was one Chyna, one!

468
00:20:17.133 --> 00:20:20.320
I've seen the wrestling business

469
00:20:20.344 --> 00:20:25.826
destroy the lives of dozens
and dozens of people.

470
00:20:25.850 --> 00:20:28.745
I could've been one of them.

471
00:20:28.769 --> 00:20:31.790
It's cold.
It's heartless.

472
00:20:31.814 --> 00:20:35.377
And I remember
having conversations

473
00:20:35.401 --> 00:20:38.672 line:5%
with her about this
when she was over in Japan,

474
00:20:38.696 --> 00:20:41.007 line:5%
but, when she was back
in the United States,

475
00:20:41.031 --> 00:20:44.511 line:5%
I really believed everything
was going to be okay.

476
00:20:44.535 --> 00:20:46.930 line:5%
I really, honestly,
believe that,

477
00:20:46.954 --> 00:20:50.559
but, obviously,
that wasn't the case.

478
00:20:50.583 --> 00:20:52.394
Ah!

479
00:20:52.418 --> 00:20:55.063 line:5%
Man:
Got her by the hair again.

480
00:20:55.087 --> 00:20:57.816
Gerry:
She had such a presence
in the ring

481
00:20:57.840 --> 00:21:00.152
and was so good at it.

482
00:21:00.176 --> 00:21:01.653
It was like something
[ Clap ] natural

483
00:21:01.677 --> 00:21:02.737
just took [ Snaps fingers ]
like that.

484
00:21:02.761 --> 00:21:04.072
Announcer:
Joanie Lee.

485
00:21:04.096 --> 00:21:06.867
She used to constantly tell me,

486
00:21:06.891 --> 00:21:09.995 line:5%
"Gerry, there's something
good coming my way.

487
00:21:10.019 --> 00:21:11.455 line:5%
I can feel it.

488
00:21:11.479 --> 00:21:15.208 line:5%
I know this is going
to be something big."

489
00:21:15.232 --> 00:21:18.712
There was nothing like it
at the time.

490
00:21:18.736 --> 00:21:21.465
They had women
coming out as valets

491
00:21:21.489 --> 00:21:24.259
and they were all coming out
all pretty-looking.

492
00:21:24.283 --> 00:21:29.764
And she says, "I have this idea
that I would come out

493
00:21:29.788 --> 00:21:32.434
as the bodyguard
of the wrestler,

494
00:21:32.458 --> 00:21:35.979
but, I would get in the ring
and I would mix it up

495
00:21:36.003 --> 00:21:40.108
and throw the other wrestlers
on my own, like <i>I'm </i>a wrestler."

496
00:21:40.132 --> 00:21:43.612 line:5%
And she said, "I'm going
to approach Paul Levesque

497
00:21:43.636 --> 00:21:46.072 line:5%
and see if he thinks
the idea is good,

498
00:21:46.096 --> 00:21:50.118 line:5%
that I become <i>his </i>bodyguard."

499
00:21:50.142 --> 00:21:53.246
Chyna:
I knew Triple H because
he was from my hometown.

500
00:21:53.270 --> 00:21:56.875
I ended up running into
Shawn Michaels and Triple H.

501
00:21:56.899 --> 00:21:59.461
We clicked right away
and started talking

502
00:21:59.485 --> 00:22:02.172
about how they
could integrate me

503
00:22:02.196 --> 00:22:04.216
and something new
that they thought,

504
00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:06.968
something different
they saw in me.

505
00:22:06.992 --> 00:22:10.931 line:5%
They saw that she was just this
amazing physical presence

506
00:22:10.955 --> 00:22:13.558 line:5%
and they felt that she
could be a contributor

507
00:22:13.582 --> 00:22:17.062 line:5%
to the success of their story.

508
00:22:17.086 --> 00:22:20.565 line:5%
Chyna:
Hunter would tell me, "Well,
we've got to get you hired.

509
00:22:20.589 --> 00:22:24.110 line:5%
I need this for my career
and Vince just doesn't like it.

510
00:22:24.134 --> 00:22:25.779 line:5%
He doesn't like the idea

511
00:22:25.803 --> 00:22:29.574 line:5%
that this is now
a woman's business."

512
00:22:29.598 --> 00:22:32.744
I knew that Vince
ran the company,

513
00:22:32.768 --> 00:22:35.789
but I didn't really know
that professional wrestling

514
00:22:35.813 --> 00:22:38.458
was pretty much Vince McMahon.

515
00:22:38.482 --> 00:22:41.628
Vince McMahon is part desperado,
part tycoon,

516
00:22:41.652 --> 00:22:43.463
and all showman.

517
00:22:43.487 --> 00:22:45.757
He's the founder of the
World Wrestling Federation

518
00:22:45.781 --> 00:22:47.634
and the man responsible for some

519
00:22:47.658 --> 00:22:50.262
of the most controversial
television programing ever.

520
00:22:50.286 --> 00:22:52.931
Announcer:
The Godfather
and his California Hos.

521
00:22:52.955 --> 00:22:55.350
The more publicity,
quite frankly,

522
00:22:55.374 --> 00:22:59.271
be it good or bad, that we get,
increases viewership.

523
00:22:59.295 --> 00:23:02.315 line:5%
♪♪

524
00:23:02.339 --> 00:23:04.568 line:5%
Vince McMahon is brilliant

525
00:23:04.592 --> 00:23:07.654 line:5%
and he's stubborn

526
00:23:07.678 --> 00:23:09.447 line:5%
and he's a man's man.

527
00:23:09.471 --> 00:23:14.160
I would do anything
for you, Mr. McMahon.

528
00:23:14.184 --> 00:23:16.454
I've heard many times,
and Joanie had even

529
00:23:16.478 --> 00:23:18.707
told me this... that Vince
didn't like the big girls.

530
00:23:18.731 --> 00:23:20.417
He didn't like her look.

531
00:23:20.441 --> 00:23:24.379
He didn't want that in WWE.

532
00:23:24.403 --> 00:23:26.506 line:5%
When her role as my bodyguard

533
00:23:26.530 --> 00:23:28.425 line:5%
was first being brought up
to Vince,

534
00:23:28.449 --> 00:23:29.884 line:5%
it was heavily resisted.

535
00:23:29.908 --> 00:23:31.511
"No one's going
to believe in that

536
00:23:31.535 --> 00:23:32.971
and no one's going to buy it,"
and Shawn and I had

537
00:23:32.995 --> 00:23:36.141
to push really hard
to get that done.

538
00:23:36.165 --> 00:23:38.351
I want the guys,
but I'm going to be the first,

539
00:23:38.375 --> 00:23:40.103
the biggest, the baddest,

540
00:23:40.127 --> 00:23:43.732
the new role model,
for female wrestlers, got that?

541
00:23:43.756 --> 00:23:45.567
[ Crying ]
She called me and said,

542
00:23:45.591 --> 00:23:50.113
"They've accepted me
and I'm going to be Chyna."

543
00:23:50.137 --> 00:23:51.865 line:5%
♪♪

544
00:23:51.889 --> 00:23:54.242
Chyna:
Triple H and Shawn Michaels
liked "Chyna."

545
00:23:54.266 --> 00:23:56.119
They thought that
it was kind of an oxymoron.

546
00:23:56.143 --> 00:23:59.205
It represented this tiny,
petite china item

547
00:23:59.229 --> 00:24:02.125
and I was so opposite from that.

548
00:24:02.149 --> 00:24:03.460
Announcer:
And his opponent,

549
00:24:03.484 --> 00:24:06.254
{\an1}being accompanied
to the ring by Chyna,

550
00:24:06.278 --> 00:24:07.756
Hunter Hearst!

551
00:24:07.780 --> 00:24:10.884 line:5%
Kathy:
She just kind of hit pay dirt.

552
00:24:10.908 --> 00:24:13.053 line:5%
I think she was in shock.

553
00:24:13.077 --> 00:24:16.056
20,213 fans.

554
00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:20.185
To be thrust into the limelight
like that, overnight,

555
00:24:20.209 --> 00:24:21.519
she went from being at home

556
00:24:21.543 --> 00:24:24.439
to being on the road
<i>immediately.</i>

557
00:24:24.463 --> 00:24:26.650
Gerry:
From the first time
she started going on the road,

558
00:24:26.674 --> 00:24:28.485
she was with Paul.

559
00:24:28.509 --> 00:24:31.112
Ten days at a time,
home for two days.

560
00:24:31.136 --> 00:24:32.989
I know she was coming home

561
00:24:33.013 --> 00:24:36.242
and staying with him
for a couple of days.

562
00:24:36.266 --> 00:24:38.286
Chyna:
We really gravitated
towards each other

563
00:24:38.310 --> 00:24:40.580
and became very serious
with each other

564
00:24:40.604 --> 00:24:42.624
six months later.

565
00:24:42.648 --> 00:24:44.167
Gerry:
I knew I had to let her go,

566
00:24:44.191 --> 00:24:46.711
to go off and do
what she wanted to do.

567
00:24:46.735 --> 00:24:48.838
I needed to not be selfish.

568
00:24:48.862 --> 00:24:50.674
She needed to go be famous.

569
00:24:50.698 --> 00:24:54.302 line:5%
♪♪

570
00:24:54.326 --> 00:24:55.720
{\an7}Right in the kidneys!

571
00:24:55.744 --> 00:24:59.391
I remember putting together
the original DX.

572
00:24:59.415 --> 00:25:02.143
Obviously,
Hunter brought Chyna in

573
00:25:02.167 --> 00:25:03.436
because he wanted
to do something with him.

574
00:25:03.460 --> 00:25:05.689
Hunter and Sean were friends,

575
00:25:05.713 --> 00:25:09.734
and all of a sudden we had this
threesome known as DX.

576
00:25:09.758 --> 00:25:13.822
- Triple threat no way through.
- The show stoppers!

577
00:25:13.846 --> 00:25:18.368
Russo:
As the head writer of the show,
DX had a very big part.

578
00:25:18.392 --> 00:25:22.330
They had to be cool,
they had to be cutting edge.

579
00:25:22.354 --> 00:25:24.290
Diesel: At that time,
it was the attitude era.

580
00:25:24.314 --> 00:25:29.796 line:5%
So everything was, you know,
about that to the man.

581
00:25:29.820 --> 00:25:31.423
The stuff before
the attitude era,

582
00:25:31.447 --> 00:25:34.759
if you look very low key,
very, I would say,

583
00:25:34.783 --> 00:25:37.011
probably less than PG,

584
00:25:37.035 --> 00:25:39.639
but then once the attitude era
hit, it was all on.

585
00:25:39.663 --> 00:25:42.475
Let's get rid of this sucker!

586
00:25:42.499 --> 00:25:45.812 line:5%
♪♪

587
00:25:45.836 --> 00:25:49.733
Joanie finally
had found a family.

588
00:25:49.757 --> 00:25:52.527
Now she's got a couple
of dozen brothers

589
00:25:52.551 --> 00:25:54.237
that would
take a bullet for her.

590
00:25:54.261 --> 00:25:56.614
Diesel: What they were was
the Generation X, you know,

591
00:25:56.638 --> 00:25:58.616
So, I mean, that just fit.

592
00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:03.437
Like we're such badasses,
our cooler is a female.

593
00:26:05.355 --> 00:26:08.668
On top of it, you're buying it.

594
00:26:08.692 --> 00:26:13.339 line:5%
This is a new beginning for
D-Generation X.

595
00:26:13.363 --> 00:26:15.508 line:5%
And we're here to rip ass!

596
00:26:15.532 --> 00:26:19.304 line:5%
When I first met Chyna
while she was with Hunter,

597
00:26:19.328 --> 00:26:21.347
Chyna was somebody that
doesn't drink

598
00:26:21.371 --> 00:26:23.558
or do drugs
or anything like that.

599
00:26:23.582 --> 00:26:25.643
And the rest of us,
after the show,

600
00:26:25.667 --> 00:26:28.646
all we did was drink
and do take pills.

601
00:26:28.670 --> 00:26:30.273
And I would be
traveling with them.

602
00:26:30.297 --> 00:26:33.193
And, you know, Hunter
and Chyna's relationships,

603
00:26:33.217 --> 00:26:36.553
seemed good, like,
on the surface.

604
00:26:38.555 --> 00:26:42.160
Joanie and Triple H were
together for quite a while.

605
00:26:42.184 --> 00:26:44.162
Joanie was loyal to him,
she loved him.

606
00:26:44.186 --> 00:26:46.664
She was very much
in love with him.

607
00:26:46.688 --> 00:26:49.667
Hamilton:
I remember the first time
they walked into my house,

608
00:26:49.691 --> 00:26:52.587 line:5%
it was almost bigger than life.

609
00:26:52.611 --> 00:26:54.947 line:5%
But they were perfect together.

610
00:26:56.698 --> 00:27:01.513
I think he loved her
just the way she was.

611
00:27:01.537 --> 00:27:05.141
{\an1}Man: Honestly, was Hunter
the love of your life?

612
00:27:05.165 --> 00:27:08.812
Very much so. I was very, very
much in love with him. Yes.

613
00:27:08.836 --> 00:27:12.774 line:5%
Russo:
I don't think it was a secret
that they were together.

614
00:27:12.798 --> 00:27:17.111 line:5%
I think people were just taken
back that somebody like Paul,

615
00:27:17.135 --> 00:27:19.489
for whatever reason,
would choose

616
00:27:19.513 --> 00:27:24.244
to have a relationship
with somebody like Chyna.

617
00:27:24.268 --> 00:27:27.831
She got a lot of flack
for the way that she looked,

618
00:27:27.855 --> 00:27:29.457
not just because she was huge,

619
00:27:29.481 --> 00:27:33.127
but because she had
a certain sense of masculinity

620
00:27:33.151 --> 00:27:36.673
and the fans love to hate her.

621
00:27:36.697 --> 00:27:39.384
Put it down on her knees
where she belongs.

622
00:27:39.408 --> 00:27:42.011
Man: Oh, come on.

623
00:27:42.035 --> 00:27:45.723
Russo:
I've definitely seen pressure
of losing weight,

624
00:27:45.747 --> 00:27:49.310
getting implants,
taking steroids.

625
00:27:49.334 --> 00:27:53.147
I've seen that way
too many times.

626
00:27:53.171 --> 00:27:56.818
Hamilton: She definitely wanted
to have more of a feminine
appeal.

627
00:27:56.842 --> 00:27:58.570
And I think that she felt

628
00:27:58.594 --> 00:28:02.365
that the only way she could do
that was surgically.

629
00:28:02.389 --> 00:28:05.118
Man:
You had your jaw reconstructed
to look more like a woman.

630
00:28:05.142 --> 00:28:06.411
True or false?
- Now, what is that all about?

631
00:28:06.435 --> 00:28:08.997
I had reconstructive
surgery on my jaw

632
00:28:09.021 --> 00:28:10.874
for an underbite that I had.

633
00:28:10.898 --> 00:28:14.711
{\an1}Oh, I see. So it isn't about you
looking more like a woman?

634
00:28:14.735 --> 00:28:16.629
No.

635
00:28:16.653 --> 00:28:19.465
Hamilton: I think she felt like
that was the last piece

636
00:28:19.489 --> 00:28:21.718
that she had to take care of

637
00:28:21.742 --> 00:28:25.513 line:5%
in order to get to
a sense of self acceptance,

638
00:28:25.537 --> 00:28:28.016 line:5%
that not only was she big
and strong and muscular,

639
00:28:28.040 --> 00:28:32.896 line:5%
but that she was very feminine
and could be sexy.

640
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:34.731 line:5%
Chyna: I think I display
an enormous amount

641
00:28:34.755 --> 00:28:36.816 line:5%
of femininity, opportunity.
And I happen to be...

642
00:28:36.840 --> 00:28:38.610
{\an1}Oh, yeah, I'm not saying that
but the look is one of...

643
00:28:38.634 --> 00:28:40.069
{\an3}The look is strength.

644
00:28:40.093 --> 00:28:41.905
And I think to me,
what it demonstrates...

645
00:28:41.929 --> 00:28:44.157
"Strength" is a male word.
A male word.

646
00:28:44.181 --> 00:28:46.034
Strength is a male word
because I think that

647
00:28:46.058 --> 00:28:47.577
women are afraid
to show strength

648
00:28:47.601 --> 00:28:50.705
because they get
chastised for it.

649
00:28:50.729 --> 00:28:54.334
And society
likes beautiful women.

650
00:28:54.358 --> 00:28:57.295
And so she did
what she needed to do.

651
00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:01.382
That's kind of when her career
just sort of skyrocketed.

652
00:29:01.406 --> 00:29:04.385
Well, well, well,
what do you know?

653
00:29:04.409 --> 00:29:08.890
The opportunity to talk?

654
00:29:08.914 --> 00:29:12.060
Because that's what it's all
about, guys, right, opportunity,

655
00:29:12.084 --> 00:29:17.815
DX wanted to get ahead,
you know how they did it? Me.

656
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:20.360
I was the force behind DX,

657
00:29:20.384 --> 00:29:23.154
because I carried those
four degenerates on my back

658
00:29:23.178 --> 00:29:24.656
for almost two years.

659
00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:26.658
Announcer:
Chyna has grabbed Gillberg

660
00:29:26.682 --> 00:29:30.828
and is now beating the daylights
out of him all the way out.

661
00:29:30.852 --> 00:29:33.873
{\an1}Man: At what point did you
realize how big you had gotten?

662
00:29:33.897 --> 00:29:35.458
{\an3}You know, there was no more DX

663
00:29:35.482 --> 00:29:38.503
{\an3}and they wanted me
to wrestle by myself.

664
00:29:38.527 --> 00:29:40.380
{\an3}I didn't want to do it.

665
00:29:40.404 --> 00:29:43.049
They were like, no, no, we want
to go this direction with you.

666
00:29:43.073 --> 00:29:44.509
Terry, I've never seen

667
00:29:44.533 --> 00:29:46.219
the Ninth Wonder of the World
so intense.

668
00:29:46.243 --> 00:29:48.388
{\an3}I was the one who thought,
"That's not going to work."

669
00:29:48.412 --> 00:29:51.683
She has earned the right
to be the number one contender.

670
00:29:51.707 --> 00:29:56.896
I was always under an enormous
amount of pressure

671
00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.733
to be perfect and not screw up.

672
00:30:00.757 --> 00:30:02.276
Man #2: What'd she have to do
to win a match?

673
00:30:02.300 --> 00:30:04.821
You cannot have
an inter gender match

674
00:30:04.845 --> 00:30:06.322
if it's not believable.

675
00:30:06.346 --> 00:30:10.451
The beauty with Chyna
was it was believable.

676
00:30:10.475 --> 00:30:13.538
Men are dominant
and women are weak!

677
00:30:13.562 --> 00:30:17.875 line:5%
Joanie was the one
who seemed most likely to win

678
00:30:17.899 --> 00:30:21.546 line:5%
an intercontinental
championship from a man.

679
00:30:21.570 --> 00:30:23.548
Like, that was
completely believable.

680
00:30:23.572 --> 00:30:24.966
Announcer:
Chyna's got the guitar.

681
00:30:24.990 --> 00:30:26.634
- Look out!
- Oh, man!

682
00:30:26.658 --> 00:30:29.095
Announcer:
Chyna with a guitar!

683
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:31.389
- [Indistinct speech]
- It certainly is.

684
00:30:31.413 --> 00:30:32.890
I guess it is.
I don't know.

685
00:30:32.914 --> 00:30:34.434
Announcer #2:
We have a K.O.

686
00:30:34.458 --> 00:30:37.103
[ Cheers and applause ]

687
00:30:37.127 --> 00:30:43.151
Announcer #3: The new World
Welter Weight Title, Chyna!

688
00:30:43.175 --> 00:30:45.653
Announcer #2:
Chyna has made history!

689
00:30:45.677 --> 00:30:50.575
Chyna, the first woman to become
the Intercontinental Champion!

690
00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:52.785
Chyna: After that, it was like
just like this phenomena

691
00:30:52.809 --> 00:30:57.373
of the magazine covers
and all the interviews.

692
00:30:57.397 --> 00:31:00.543
And then I became kind of
like more of a spokesperson

693
00:31:00.567 --> 00:31:05.631
for the WWE to being this
female phenom.

694
00:31:05.655 --> 00:31:09.469
I felt like it was
expanding the business.

695
00:31:09.493 --> 00:31:11.721
We could just feel it
starting to grow.

696
00:31:11.745 --> 00:31:14.307
Didn't know anything
about wrestling

697
00:31:14.331 --> 00:31:19.687
and I see this video
and here was this gorgeous woman

698
00:31:19.711 --> 00:31:24.317
coming out onstage
in this silver costume

699
00:31:24.341 --> 00:31:28.362
And I'm like,
"Wow, is that Joanie?!"

700
00:31:28.386 --> 00:31:32.533 line:5%
I mean, I knew it was,
but it was like, "Wow!"

701
00:31:32.557 --> 00:31:34.160 line:5%
That just was like [ Gasp ]

702
00:31:34.184 --> 00:31:37.747 line:5%
It's kind of really surprising.

703
00:31:37.771 --> 00:31:41.751
I mean, you know,
there's your kid onstage.

704
00:31:41.775 --> 00:31:44.486
I hadn't heard from her
for almost 27 years.

705
00:31:48.156 --> 00:31:51.677 line:5%
♪♪

706
00:31:51.701 --> 00:31:55.807 line:5%
Yeah, man, that that trip, like
we within the first week,

707
00:31:55.831 --> 00:31:57.809 line:5%
like we all saw sort of
our true colors.

708
00:31:57.833 --> 00:31:59.894 line:5%
Chyna, did you remember Eddie?

709
00:31:59.918 --> 00:32:02.814 line:5%
- Hey, Eddie.
- Oh, my God.

710
00:32:02.838 --> 00:32:05.608
And I felt like Anthony was
treating me like a cameraman.

711
00:32:05.632 --> 00:32:07.777
It was my film
and I was paying for it.

712
00:32:07.801 --> 00:32:10.238
- I'll come in with...
- And he was like,

713
00:32:10.262 --> 00:32:12.031
"Go over here
and shoot this and shoot that."

714
00:32:12.055 --> 00:32:13.825
And there was a couple of times
that he didn't get his way

715
00:32:13.849 --> 00:32:15.660
and he yelled, we found out
he was the kind of person

716
00:32:15.684 --> 00:32:17.578
who was very calm and shill.

717
00:32:17.602 --> 00:32:19.372
But then when he would get to a
certain point, he would yell.

718
00:32:19.396 --> 00:32:21.082
Angra: Sorry, man,
we gotta do the asphalt,

719
00:32:21.106 --> 00:32:23.543
otherwise we're gonna
lose light.

720
00:32:23.567 --> 00:32:25.670
Okay, well, we've I think al...
Did we...?

721
00:32:25.694 --> 00:32:27.797
Oh, we're starting
that all over again.

722
00:32:27.821 --> 00:32:30.049
Angra:
And so he started yelling again
after we spent the whole day

723
00:32:30.073 --> 00:32:32.093
filming these things that I feel
were important.

724
00:32:32.117 --> 00:32:33.886
And then he starts yelling about
how important this guy is

725
00:32:33.910 --> 00:32:35.513
for Chyna's career.

726
00:32:35.537 --> 00:32:37.140
And then I got really pissed
and I just started

727
00:32:37.164 --> 00:32:38.891
screaming at him and I said,
like this was my show

728
00:32:38.915 --> 00:32:40.977
and him and Chyna could

729
00:32:41.001 --> 00:32:42.603
go... themselves
and I didn't need them.

730
00:32:42.627 --> 00:32:46.023
I start throwing his stuff
out of the van, my van,

731
00:32:46.047 --> 00:32:50.069
and and then he apologized
and everything was cool.

732
00:32:50.093 --> 00:32:53.305
And that was the beginning of
like all of our relationships.

733
00:32:55.182 --> 00:32:58.661 line:5%
All of our characters
are a little bit of ourselves.

734
00:32:58.685 --> 00:33:02.623
Chyna is a powerful,
strong woman.

735
00:33:02.647 --> 00:33:05.376
She's attractive
and she holds her own

736
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:07.670
in male-dominated environment.

737
00:33:07.694 --> 00:33:11.883 line:5%
She was a household name.
She was just everywhere.

738
00:33:11.907 --> 00:33:19.098
It was an inundation of Chyna.

739
00:33:19.122 --> 00:33:20.892
She did the <i>Playboy </i>thing.

740
00:33:20.916 --> 00:33:22.935
Chyna: When I did my <i>Playboy,
</i>I made more money

741
00:33:22.959 --> 00:33:25.938
doing one <i>Playboy
</i>than I had in five years

742
00:33:25.962 --> 00:33:29.275
cumulatively of working
for the company.

743
00:33:29.299 --> 00:33:32.320
Hamilton:
She did feel a lot of insecurity
because she'd say,

744
00:33:32.344 --> 00:33:36.282
"Oh, my God, I just do not fit
in with these beautiful women."

745
00:33:36.306 --> 00:33:38.534
But they all thought
she was awesome.

746
00:33:38.558 --> 00:33:41.537
Chyna:
If you do happen to pick up
an issue of <i>Playboy</i>

747
00:33:41.561 --> 00:33:44.290
after you see my ass,
you can kiss it, too.

748
00:33:44.314 --> 00:33:46.417
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]

749
00:33:46.441 --> 00:33:51.172 line:5%
Eddie Guerrero and coming by
Mamacita for the title...

750
00:33:51.196 --> 00:33:53.883 line:5%
Landsberg:
You wanted storylines that
involved you wrestling men,

751
00:33:53.907 --> 00:33:56.427 line:5%
right,
and Vince, for the most part,

752
00:33:56.451 --> 00:33:57.803
wanted you to wrestle
against women,

753
00:33:57.827 --> 00:33:59.847
{\an1}was that at the heart
of one of the problems?

754
00:33:59.871 --> 00:34:02.600
Yeah, my character was going
backwards.

755
00:34:02.624 --> 00:34:06.520
For six years, I had wrestled
men and then all of a sudden

756
00:34:06.544 --> 00:34:08.522
I wasn't supposed to fight
the guys anymore

757
00:34:08.546 --> 00:34:10.816
and I was supposed to be
this women's champion.

758
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:12.109
And who was I going to fight as
and what was I going to do?

759
00:34:12.133 --> 00:34:14.362
But is it possible
that the public

760
00:34:14.386 --> 00:34:18.241
does not want to see
men losing to women?

761
00:34:18.265 --> 00:34:20.451
Yeah, but there was
nobody there at that point

762
00:34:20.475 --> 00:34:22.119
that didn't want to wrestle me.

763
00:34:22.143 --> 00:34:24.288
How was I going to step
backwards and wrestle women

764
00:34:24.312 --> 00:34:25.790
that didn't have the experience

765
00:34:25.814 --> 00:34:29.585
from the guys
that I was wrestling everyday?

766
00:34:29.609 --> 00:34:31.837
Simpson: They're taking this
woman, 5'9",

767
00:34:31.861 --> 00:34:34.966
muscular
and turning her into a Diva.

768
00:34:34.990 --> 00:34:38.386
Although they couldn't chisel
her down into a 5'5"

769
00:34:38.410 --> 00:34:43.123
size 2 they did the best
they could to make her a Diva.

770
00:34:44.999 --> 00:34:46.519 line:5%
Strauch: I mean,
it seems like a big turning

771
00:34:46.543 --> 00:34:49.021 line:5%
point in her story.
- I think that was it.

772
00:34:49.045 --> 00:34:52.692
She's so full of everything
that you want to be around

773
00:34:52.716 --> 00:34:55.027
to somebody that just I would,

774
00:34:55.051 --> 00:34:59.323
in a sense,
completely goes dark.

775
00:34:59.347 --> 00:35:03.160
Joanie was all about trusting
people being loyal.

776
00:35:03.184 --> 00:35:05.413
In pro wrestling
you don't have that.

777
00:35:05.437 --> 00:35:08.124
Shame on Triple H.
He broke her heart.

778
00:35:08.148 --> 00:35:12.962
There's no other way to say
that he broke Joanie's heart.

779
00:35:12.986 --> 00:35:18.259
We had a huge house
in New Hampshire.

780
00:35:18.283 --> 00:35:19.844
His career was moving up

781
00:35:19.868 --> 00:35:23.597
and therefore
he was having a lot of meetings

782
00:35:23.621 --> 00:35:28.168 line:5%
with Vince and Stephanie
and like the crew there.

783
00:35:30.170 --> 00:35:33.482
You know, I should not be
like the jealous like wifey

784
00:35:33.506 --> 00:35:36.485
and get on his case
about being too friendly

785
00:35:36.509 --> 00:35:38.321
with the boss's daughter
or with the boss,

786
00:35:38.345 --> 00:35:42.325
just let him do his thing.
I was so proud of him.

787
00:35:42.349 --> 00:35:44.243
Stephanie:
By the time, you know,
Triple H and I started our

788
00:35:44.267 --> 00:35:46.912 line:5%
on-screen storyline,
we just sort of had

789
00:35:46.936 --> 00:35:50.041 line:5%
great chemistry
and it just went from there.

790
00:35:50.065 --> 00:35:54.086
Hunter I take thee
as my husband.

791
00:35:54.110 --> 00:35:56.047
Our storyline was, you know,
that we were married

792
00:35:56.071 --> 00:36:00.426
and we took over the business
and drove my dad out.

793
00:36:00.450 --> 00:36:02.511
One time when when I was
standing around the ring,

794
00:36:02.535 --> 00:36:03.929
he sort of curled around me.

795
00:36:03.953 --> 00:36:05.723
He was on the floor
and he felt my leg.

796
00:36:05.747 --> 00:36:08.267
And I was like,
that's definitely flirtation.

797
00:36:08.291 --> 00:36:10.519
Woman:
That's not part of the script.

798
00:36:10.543 --> 00:36:12.688
Chyna: I would ask Hunter
time and time again,

799
00:36:12.712 --> 00:36:15.566
I figured it's better
just to address the problem

800
00:36:15.590 --> 00:36:16.901
and ask him honestly.

801
00:36:16.925 --> 00:36:19.653
So we got into
a heated argument.

802
00:36:19.677 --> 00:36:22.198
I told him,
I know something's going on.

803
00:36:22.222 --> 00:36:24.658
Don't tell me
something's not going on.

804
00:36:24.682 --> 00:36:28.579
He swiped my hand.
I swiped his hand.

805
00:36:28.603 --> 00:36:30.998
I knew at that point
I had to leave,

806
00:36:31.022 --> 00:36:33.876
but I needed
some sort of closure.

807
00:36:33.900 --> 00:36:36.629
And I found a love letter
from Stephanie

808
00:36:36.653 --> 00:36:38.297
that had dated a year back.

809
00:36:38.321 --> 00:36:40.800
So the whole time
they were doing the storyline,

810
00:36:40.824 --> 00:36:43.886
basically they were together.

811
00:36:43.910 --> 00:36:47.014
When I found out
I was devastated. It hurt me.

812
00:36:47.038 --> 00:36:50.393
I'm a human being and nobody,
whether you're a celebrity

813
00:36:50.417 --> 00:36:52.436
or whether you're not,
likes to be cheated on,

814
00:36:52.460 --> 00:36:55.356
especially when it's with
the boss's daughter.

815
00:36:55.380 --> 00:36:57.316
- It's Vince's daughter.
- Sure.

816
00:36:57.340 --> 00:36:59.402
- As long as you keep her happy.
- It's a hell of a cash upgrade.

817
00:36:59.426 --> 00:37:01.487
- And also, she's very feminine.
- Right.

818
00:37:01.511 --> 00:37:03.823
I mean, you would call her
a feminine woman.

819
00:37:03.847 --> 00:37:05.074
Woman:
Certainly not like Joan.

820
00:37:05.098 --> 00:37:06.575
Hamilton:
I think when she met him,

821
00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:09.203
she found somebody
that she really loved.

822
00:37:09.227 --> 00:37:13.040
And I think she was devastated
when that relationship ended.

823
00:37:13.064 --> 00:37:15.459
Chyna: Love can't stop love.

824
00:37:15.483 --> 00:37:17.711
But I was like,
how then do I deal with

825
00:37:17.735 --> 00:37:20.423
the emotional side
of this happening

826
00:37:20.447 --> 00:37:25.845
and keeping my job
and, like, moving forward?

827
00:37:25.869 --> 00:37:28.597 line:5%
Tell me whether your
relationship with Triple H

828
00:37:28.621 --> 00:37:30.516 line:5%
and now his relationship
with Stephanie

829
00:37:30.540 --> 00:37:33.310 line:5%
sped up your departure
from the WWF?

830
00:37:33.334 --> 00:37:37.481
Well, officially, you know,
I could say no,

831
00:37:37.505 --> 00:37:40.860
but I don't think I'll ever know
the answer to that.

832
00:37:40.884 --> 00:37:44.822
In the back of my mind.
I'd like to say, "Of course."

833
00:37:44.846 --> 00:37:48.951
Ross: Well, we decided
not to renew her contract.

834
00:37:48.975 --> 00:37:54.415 line:5%
Her deal to me was
Chyna is as valuable to WWE

835
00:37:54.439 --> 00:37:57.835 line:5%
as Stone Cold Steve Austin is.

836
00:37:57.859 --> 00:38:01.046
Chyna: Because I did feel
that I was top talent there.

837
00:38:01.070 --> 00:38:04.008
And I was included
in every other aspect

838
00:38:04.032 --> 00:38:06.343
as far as top talent
was concerned,

839
00:38:06.367 --> 00:38:09.138
except for financially.

840
00:38:09.162 --> 00:38:12.641
Ross:
She wanted to be cut loose
or she would've demanded

841
00:38:12.665 --> 00:38:14.768
a million dollars a year.

842
00:38:14.792 --> 00:38:18.314
Announcer: Summer Slam this
Sunday is history in the making!

843
00:38:18.338 --> 00:38:23.527
Russo: When the WWE decides to
part ways with somebody,

844
00:38:23.551 --> 00:38:25.029 line:5%
there's always the excuse.

845
00:38:25.053 --> 00:38:26.947 line:5%
Oh, they got too big
for their ego.

846
00:38:26.971 --> 00:38:30.826
They they got hard to deal with.
They wanted more money.

847
00:38:30.850 --> 00:38:33.204
Out of the thousands
and thousands of people

848
00:38:33.228 --> 00:38:37.333
I worked with, she'd be
the last one to have an ego

849
00:38:37.357 --> 00:38:40.794
when she had
every right to have an ego.

850
00:38:40.818 --> 00:38:44.423
Chyna: I was sitting in a
Jerry's Deli eating lunch

851
00:38:44.447 --> 00:38:48.969
and a fax mysteriously went
to Jerry's Deli

852
00:38:48.993 --> 00:38:50.596
and it was from the WWE

853
00:38:50.620 --> 00:38:54.725
and they said they wouldn't
be needing me anymore.

854
00:38:54.749 --> 00:38:57.311
Shane:
It's something that the company
is actually very good at doing,

855
00:38:57.335 --> 00:38:59.271
and they did it with Joanie,
which is that

856
00:38:59.295 --> 00:39:01.815
once she was let go,

857
00:39:01.839 --> 00:39:04.175
it's like she was
completely erased.

858
00:39:14.227 --> 00:39:15.538 line:5%
I know a lot of shit
about the wrestling

859
00:39:15.562 --> 00:39:17.581 line:5%
Wanna, please,
I could kill them.

860
00:39:17.605 --> 00:39:21.210 line:5%
But I loved it every day
in my life, I had a great time.

861
00:39:21.234 --> 00:39:27.174 line:5%
I loved it.
I love them for making me Chyna.

862
00:39:27.198 --> 00:39:28.968
{\an1}Man: Did they make you Chyna,
or did you make you Chyna?

863
00:39:28.992 --> 00:39:33.222
Both. Both.

864
00:39:33.246 --> 00:39:38.269
They can't do without my talent,
there is not another Chyna.

865
00:39:38.293 --> 00:39:40.020
And there never will be.

866
00:39:40.044 --> 00:39:43.983
Announcer:
The Ninth Wonder of the World

867
00:39:44.007 --> 00:39:46.443
Chyna!

868
00:39:46.467 --> 00:39:52.324
Russo:
You've got to think about
having it all, losing it,

869
00:39:52.348 --> 00:39:57.246 line:5%
knowing you are never going to
achieve that again,

870
00:39:57.270 --> 00:40:01.834 line:5%
then it's like you got to be
at the point of asking yourself,

871
00:40:01.858 --> 00:40:05.212 line:5%
what's my purpose?

872
00:40:05.236 --> 00:40:07.590 line:5%
Hamilton:
When she left the WWE,

873
00:40:07.614 --> 00:40:10.491 line:5%
she got an apartment
out in Santa Monica.

874
00:40:12.118 --> 00:40:17.224 line:5%
She went from having that family
at the WWE to really

875
00:40:17.248 --> 00:40:19.310 line:5%
being on her own.

876
00:40:19.334 --> 00:40:23.772
Chyna:
Nobody would take my call,
nobody would answer my letters.

877
00:40:23.796 --> 00:40:26.400
Literally pulled the rug out
from underneath me

878
00:40:26.424 --> 00:40:28.027
because I went from,

879
00:40:28.051 --> 00:40:32.573
like this billion dollar
commodity right on the street.

880
00:40:32.597 --> 00:40:34.908
Hamilton: She could no longer
use
the Chyna name.

881
00:40:34.932 --> 00:40:37.411
That name was owned by the WWE.

882
00:40:37.435 --> 00:40:39.913
When she left,
she had to give it up.

883
00:40:39.937 --> 00:40:42.750
{\an1}Stern: Course, we can't call her
"Chyna" or else she'll be sued.

884
00:40:42.774 --> 00:40:44.918
That's right.
That's Vince McMahon's name.

885
00:40:44.942 --> 00:40:48.213
But we could use
officially Chyna Doll.

886
00:40:48.237 --> 00:40:50.007
Right.
You're Chyna Doll.

887
00:40:50.031 --> 00:40:52.301
Right, Joanie Chyna Doll Laurer.

888
00:40:52.325 --> 00:40:56.847
Russo: If I'm Vince McMahon,
I own that brand,

889
00:40:56.871 --> 00:41:00.851
but can we make an exception?

890
00:41:00.875 --> 00:41:03.395
Let her use her name.

891
00:41:03.419 --> 00:41:07.924
But that that that would
ultimately come from Vince.

892
00:41:10.343 --> 00:41:14.281
I assumed that I would just deal
with the heartache

893
00:41:14.305 --> 00:41:16.784
of the breakup
and make a like a lateral move,

894
00:41:16.808 --> 00:41:19.161
{\an1}so I went knocking on doors
in Hollywood and I thought,

895
00:41:19.185 --> 00:41:21.538
{\an1}oh, I'll get a sitcom
or I'll get another show.

896
00:41:21.562 --> 00:41:23.332 line:5%
Chyna: I got three big movies
coming out.

897
00:41:23.356 --> 00:41:26.085 line:5%
One is "Just Another
Romantic Wrestling Comedy"

898
00:41:26.109 --> 00:41:29.129 line:5%
where I actually do some
some of my last wrestling.

899
00:41:29.153 --> 00:41:33.926 line:5%
She had some other acting gigs,
nothing substantial.

900
00:41:33.950 --> 00:41:35.469 line:5%
And I think at that point

901
00:41:35.493 --> 00:41:38.180
she kind of
started to panic a little bit.

902
00:41:38.204 --> 00:41:41.225
- It's going to hurt.
- Is there a point, Joanie,

903
00:41:41.249 --> 00:41:43.852
when drugs come into play,
you know,

904
00:41:43.876 --> 00:41:47.815
maybe you're taking something
to get your head off

905
00:41:47.839 --> 00:41:52.152
of what you're going through
to ease the pain.

906
00:41:52.176 --> 00:41:54.571
Chyna: I found myself on the
bottom of a vodka bottle

907
00:41:54.595 --> 00:41:59.410
on many occasions.
I was self medicating for sure.

908
00:41:59.434 --> 00:42:04.873
Hamilton:
She was, again, feeling lonesome
and not sure what to do.

909
00:42:04.897 --> 00:42:08.168
That's when she became involved
with Sean,

910
00:42:08.192 --> 00:42:10.695
when he sort of
came into the picture.

911
00:42:13.364 --> 00:42:16.510
He showed up on my doorstep
one day and I was like,

912
00:42:16.534 --> 00:42:19.096
"Oh, my God, you know,
we've been friends for so long."

913
00:42:19.120 --> 00:42:20.681
He said, "I got a divorce
from my wife"

914
00:42:20.705 --> 00:42:26.478
and he was happy to see me.
And it was instant love.

915
00:42:26.502 --> 00:42:29.565 line:5%
She was a very comforting

916
00:42:29.589 --> 00:42:33.902 line:5%
and felt
like a safe place for me.

917
00:42:33.926 --> 00:42:36.238
Diesel: And she seemed
really comfortable.

918
00:42:36.262 --> 00:42:40.701
And I just got...
The two just kind of meshed.

919
00:42:40.725 --> 00:42:42.494
But I think at the same time,

920
00:42:42.518 --> 00:42:44.913 line:5%
those two weren't good
for each other.

921
00:42:44.937 --> 00:42:48.709
X-Pac: I just was happy
to have somebody that wanted me.

922
00:42:48.733 --> 00:42:51.712
There's a bad person
in there somewhere

923
00:42:51.736 --> 00:42:56.759
and there's a... wonderful
person in there somewhere, too.

924
00:42:56.783 --> 00:42:59.011
{\an1}Chyna: It happened so quick.
That's when I started noticing

925
00:42:59.035 --> 00:43:00.471
{\an1}like a lot of the drugs

926
00:43:00.495 --> 00:43:02.222
and like a lot of the crazy
stuff thinking like,

927
00:43:02.246 --> 00:43:04.183
oh, my gosh, here we go again.

928
00:43:04.207 --> 00:43:05.851
I'm getting into
another situation.

929
00:43:05.875 --> 00:43:07.478
How do I deal with this?

930
00:43:07.502 --> 00:43:11.648
I just started dabbling in using
crystal meth at the time.

931
00:43:11.672 --> 00:43:14.651
I was hiding my drug use
from her.

932
00:43:14.675 --> 00:43:16.904
And I didn't realize at the time

933
00:43:16.928 --> 00:43:20.032
that she was hiding hers
from me as well.

934
00:43:20.056 --> 00:43:22.951
Hamilton:
It's almost like they were
on a boat that was sinking

935
00:43:22.975 --> 00:43:27.897
and there was not a lot anybody
could do to stop that.

936
00:43:30.107 --> 00:43:35.547 line:5%
Joanie found it incredibly
fascinating to go to Japan.

937
00:43:35.571 --> 00:43:39.301
They had a different sort of
respect about wrestling there.

938
00:43:39.325 --> 00:43:41.345
When I was there in 2002,
wrestling was huge,

939
00:43:41.369 --> 00:43:42.930
within Ojisan.

940
00:43:42.954 --> 00:43:45.015
{\an3}That was with New Japan
Professional Wrestling.

941
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:49.144 line:5%
Yasuda:
New Japan is the biggest pro
wrestling organization in Japan.

942
00:43:49.168 --> 00:43:52.064 line:5%
It was originally founded
by Mister Inoki.

943
00:43:52.088 --> 00:43:56.443 line:5%
And he's more like mix of a
Muhammad Ali and Vince McMahon.

944
00:43:56.467 --> 00:43:58.427 line:5%
[ Speaking Japanese ]

945
00:44:01.305 --> 00:44:03.724 line:5%
[ Speaking Japanese ]

946
00:44:05.768 --> 00:44:07.830
Yasuda: The style was called
Hardstyle.

947
00:44:07.854 --> 00:44:11.625
Like you really hit the guys,
slam the guy as hard as you can.

948
00:44:11.649 --> 00:44:14.378
So Chyna had to learn.

949
00:44:14.402 --> 00:44:16.088
Chyna: If you were going as
a foreigner,

950
00:44:16.112 --> 00:44:19.883
you're getting beat up, right?
It's a scary world.

951
00:44:19.907 --> 00:44:23.387
Chyna: We trained every day
for like 10 hours a day,

952
00:44:23.411 --> 00:44:25.722
{\an9}which ultimately led
to the big fight

953
00:44:25.746 --> 00:44:31.144 line:5%
with Masahiro Chono in the Tokyo
den with 80,000 plus people.

954
00:44:31.168 --> 00:44:35.232 line:5%
Announcer: Joanie Laurer!

955
00:44:35.256 --> 00:44:38.092 line:5%
[ Speaking Japanese ]

956
00:44:58.029 --> 00:45:00.674 line:5%
[ Crowd roars ]

957
00:45:00.698 --> 00:45:04.285 line:5%
[ Speaking Japanese ]

958
00:45:33.898 --> 00:45:37.753 line:5%
[ Laughs ]

959
00:45:37.777 --> 00:45:45.777 line:5%
[ Speaking Japanese ]

960
00:45:48.955 --> 00:45:52.434
Chyna:
It was the most physically
demanding achievement

961
00:45:52.458 --> 00:45:54.144
I've ever done in my life.

962
00:45:54.168 --> 00:45:57.272
Let me wait till everybody's
in here to tell you

963
00:45:57.296 --> 00:45:59.566
that I didn't lose that match

964
00:45:59.590 --> 00:46:02.527
because I beat his ass
in front of all of his fans.

965
00:46:02.551 --> 00:46:10.351 line:5%
Chono: [ Speaking Japanese ]

966
00:46:16.941 --> 00:46:18.961 line:5%
Didn't expect that
did you, Chono?

967
00:46:18.985 --> 00:46:21.588 line:5%
[ Camera shutter clicks ]

968
00:46:21.612 --> 00:46:24.115 line:5%
Chono: [ Speaking Japanese ]

969
00:46:27.910 --> 00:46:31.306 line:5%
Yasuda: She was already
into a relationship with X-Pac

970
00:46:31.330 --> 00:46:34.893 line:5%
and then drug things
started to happen.

971
00:46:34.917 --> 00:46:36.520
X-Pac:
I ended up going with her.

972
00:46:36.544 --> 00:46:39.231
I brought coke and meth
into Japan with us.

973
00:46:39.255 --> 00:46:40.983
I carried on me.

974
00:46:41.007 --> 00:46:42.859
Little by little,
it started to affect her.

975
00:46:42.883 --> 00:46:46.196
Like, okay, she's late.
So she became flaky.

976
00:46:46.220 --> 00:46:49.074
So they had to fire her.

977
00:46:49.098 --> 00:46:53.269 line:5%
Chono: [ Speaking Japanese ]

978
00:46:54.687 --> 00:46:56.832
{\an1}Stern: Are you now
into alcohol big time?

979
00:46:56.856 --> 00:46:58.834
Are you having
a problem with it?

980
00:46:58.858 --> 00:47:00.585
- No.
- You're not having a problem?

981
00:47:00.609 --> 00:47:03.988
I want to party and I don't want
to be the designated driver.

982
00:47:09.952 --> 00:47:11.471 line:5%
Angra:
That's great, and if you turn
a little bit

983
00:47:11.495 --> 00:47:12.931 line:5%
like you're facing towards the
mountains a bit?

984
00:47:12.955 --> 00:47:15.183 line:5%
There we go. That's great.
Beautiful.

985
00:47:15.207 --> 00:47:17.602
Alright, just stay right there,
I'm going to get a wide shot.

986
00:47:17.626 --> 00:47:19.646
You're up.

987
00:47:19.670 --> 00:47:21.589
[ Wind blowing ]

988
00:47:24.842 --> 00:47:26.695 line:5%
Ow!

989
00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:29.489 line:5%
Anzaldo: I was not living
in a world of denial.

990
00:47:29.513 --> 00:47:32.409
I knew her.

991
00:47:32.433 --> 00:47:34.036
She was taking
prescription medication,

992
00:47:34.060 --> 00:47:36.163
so I knew that that wasn't good.

993
00:47:36.187 --> 00:47:39.124
Things were going well
for the most part,

994
00:47:39.148 --> 00:47:43.628
it was just, more frequently,
She was bingeing,

995
00:47:43.652 --> 00:47:45.714
but it wasn't
affecting the work.

996
00:47:45.738 --> 00:47:48.091
And we knew we were going
to have to get to the rehab.

997
00:47:48.115 --> 00:47:49.718 line:5%
We knew that that was coming.

998
00:47:49.742 --> 00:47:51.595 line:5%
We knew she was going
to have to get off.

999
00:47:51.619 --> 00:47:53.513 line:5%
But she she wasn't
she wasn't ready.

1000
00:47:53.537 --> 00:47:54.931
She didn't want to do it.

1001
00:47:54.955 --> 00:47:58.060
She felt like she had it
under control.

1002
00:47:58.084 --> 00:48:00.228
Potylo: That's when I really
started noticing Chyna

1003
00:48:00.252 --> 00:48:04.399
was starting to hit the sauce
and hit the pills.

1004
00:48:04.423 --> 00:48:09.011 line:5%
And it was
it was a real battle for her.

1005
00:48:19.188 --> 00:48:20.832 line:5%
Hamilton: I, too,
am the queen of denial.

1006
00:48:20.856 --> 00:48:24.878 line:5%
And so to talk about this
means that I have to admit

1007
00:48:24.902 --> 00:48:27.506 line:5%
the fact that she had a lot of
problems

1008
00:48:27.530 --> 00:48:32.969 line:5%
that I just could not...
Nobody could control, right?

1009
00:48:32.993 --> 00:48:36.932 line:5%
Sean called me and he said,
you need to get here now.

1010
00:48:36.956 --> 00:48:40.185 line:5%
I went into her apartment
and she was combative.

1011
00:48:40.209 --> 00:48:44.815 line:5%
She was under the influence.
And I said, "I love you.

1012
00:48:44.839 --> 00:48:49.361
And I think you got to go
get help or you're gonna die."

1013
00:48:49.385 --> 00:48:51.947
And she said,
"I don't have a problem."

1014
00:48:51.971 --> 00:48:54.449
And she was very angry with me.

1015
00:48:54.473 --> 00:48:58.686
This went on for hours
and she finally agreed.

1016
00:49:00.980 --> 00:49:04.918
We got to the rehab
and we walked in the door

1017
00:49:04.942 --> 00:49:07.879
and Joanie said, "I don't know
what the... we're doing here,

1018
00:49:07.903 --> 00:49:11.883
but I'm out of here,"
after like 10 or 15 minutes.

1019
00:49:11.907 --> 00:49:15.637
She basically was telling me
she hated me.

1020
00:49:15.661 --> 00:49:18.849
She never wanted
to see me again.

1021
00:49:18.873 --> 00:49:23.019
{\an1}I knew it was, you know, the end
of our relationship, basically.

1022
00:49:23.043 --> 00:49:24.396
Joanie went her own way,

1023
00:49:24.420 --> 00:49:27.774
and that was the last time
I saw her.

1024
00:49:27.798 --> 00:49:31.468
I was heartbroken.
She was my best friend.

1025
00:49:33.262 --> 00:49:39.035
And I was really the only one
that she had for family.

1026
00:49:39.059 --> 00:49:40.954
Right? [ Chuckles ]

1027
00:49:40.978 --> 00:49:45.125
So I think
she really felt alone.

1028
00:49:45.149 --> 00:49:48.587
I just spent six days in
Twin Towers of LAX.

1029
00:49:48.611 --> 00:49:49.880
Stern: Right.

1030
00:49:49.904 --> 00:49:51.882
And that's not a very fun
prison to be in.

1031
00:49:51.906 --> 00:49:53.425
Alright.

1032
00:49:53.449 --> 00:49:55.177
{\an1}You went to prison because
you beat up your boyfriend.

1033
00:49:55.201 --> 00:49:57.971
I didn't beat him up.
I slapped him in self defense.

1034
00:49:57.995 --> 00:50:00.891
- You bitch slap.
- I bitch slapped him.

1035
00:50:00.915 --> 00:50:04.311
Her relationship with Sean
was extremely toxic

1036
00:50:04.335 --> 00:50:07.606
because both individuals had
their own demons to deal with.

1037
00:50:07.630 --> 00:50:10.650
And I think it's because
she was so desperate to be loved

1038
00:50:10.674 --> 00:50:12.485
that she would take
these relationships

1039
00:50:12.509 --> 00:50:14.821 line:5%
and just hang in there.

1040
00:50:14.845 --> 00:50:17.282 line:5%
Chyna:
The weird thing with this
relationship was I was dealing

1041
00:50:17.306 --> 00:50:21.786 line:5%
with a very unstable person,
which made me unstable.

1042
00:50:21.810 --> 00:50:29.461 line:5%
I was just a pathetic... wretch
when it came to her.

1043
00:50:29.485 --> 00:50:30.754 line:5%
Stern:
I saw your porno.

1044
00:50:30.778 --> 00:50:32.672 line:5%
- Now is he the guy in the porno?
- Yeah.

1045
00:50:32.696 --> 00:50:34.257 line:5%
Okay.
That was your boyfriend.

1046
00:50:34.281 --> 00:50:36.092 line:5%
Chyna: And then we
talked about the tape

1047
00:50:36.116 --> 00:50:37.677 line:5%
and I thought it was funny.

1048
00:50:37.701 --> 00:50:39.554
And it's not like I had a gun to
my head or anything.

1049
00:50:39.578 --> 00:50:42.557 line:5%
X-Pac: It was such a... up,
co-dependent, volatile,

1050
00:50:42.581 --> 00:50:45.769 line:5%
almost unhealthy
relationship in the world.

1051
00:50:45.793 --> 00:50:48.438 line:5%
No matter how many times shit
would happen,

1052
00:50:48.462 --> 00:50:52.359 line:5%
we would always
come back together.

1053
00:50:52.383 --> 00:50:56.428 line:5%
She she was the one who had
to make a decision to move on.

1054
00:50:59.181 --> 00:51:02.327 line:5%
Potylo: Vegas definitely was
the big telltale sign

1055
00:51:02.351 --> 00:51:04.663 line:5%
that none of her demons
had left.

1056
00:51:04.687 --> 00:51:06.331 line:5%
As a matter of fact,
if anything,

1057
00:51:06.355 --> 00:51:08.750 line:5%
Vegas encouraged those demons.

1058
00:51:08.774 --> 00:51:11.044 line:5%
She was in a celebrity
poker tournament.

1059
00:51:11.068 --> 00:51:13.463 line:5%
She didn't know
how to play poker.

1060
00:51:13.487 --> 00:51:16.883 line:5%
I mean, this was
all of these ideas.

1061
00:51:16.907 --> 00:51:18.385
{\an1}Reporter: Are you feel
more acclimated to the U.S.?

1062
00:51:18.409 --> 00:51:23.014
Chyna: No, I'm not feeling
acclimated at all.

1063
00:51:23.038 --> 00:51:24.724
Coming back to all this,

1064
00:51:24.748 --> 00:51:29.521
it's kind of making me feel
pretty detached, actually.

1065
00:51:29.545 --> 00:51:33.692
Potylo:
And at this point, Erik was
starting to hang with her more

1066
00:51:33.716 --> 00:51:35.360
and they would party.

1067
00:51:35.384 --> 00:51:37.404
And Erik would come back to the
hotel room, be like,

1068
00:51:37.428 --> 00:51:40.198
"This is great. We talked about
what pills we like.

1069
00:51:40.222 --> 00:51:45.161
What we have in common
and stuff." I'm like, "Really?"

1070
00:51:45.185 --> 00:51:47.789
Angra: A couple of times
I'd done Ativans

1071
00:51:47.813 --> 00:51:50.083
and Klonopins
and things with her.

1072
00:51:50.107 --> 00:51:51.876
I wanted to do drugs with her
so badly.

1073
00:51:51.900 --> 00:51:53.461 line:5%
I wanted to bond with her, you
know, like, I wanted to, like...

1074
00:51:53.485 --> 00:51:54.754 line:5%
I knew she was doing
the same things I was doing.

1075
00:51:54.778 --> 00:51:57.799 line:5%
And I felt like
I understood her.

1076
00:51:57.823 --> 00:52:01.594 line:5%
I knew she knew, I knew.
And I knew that she knew.

1077
00:52:01.618 --> 00:52:04.222
Potylo: Erik just seemed
like at worse at that time,

1078
00:52:04.246 --> 00:52:07.183
which I later found out
was probably attributed to him

1079
00:52:07.207 --> 00:52:10.895
snorting heroin a lot
and also blowing meth.

1080
00:52:10.919 --> 00:52:12.689
And it's like, Jesus,
what is this?

1081
00:52:12.713 --> 00:52:14.274
What are we doing here?

1082
00:52:14.298 --> 00:52:20.405 line:5%
♪♪

1083
00:52:20.429 --> 00:52:23.408 line:5%
Anzaldo:
When I met her, she was flying.

1084
00:52:23.432 --> 00:52:25.910 line:5%
She ran away from X-Pac

1085
00:52:25.934 --> 00:52:27.746 line:5%
and showed up
on the "Surreal Life"

1086
00:52:27.770 --> 00:52:30.165 line:5%
set with the clothes
on her back.

1087
00:52:30.189 --> 00:52:32.792 line:5%
It's going to be great.
I'm going to own that house.

1088
00:52:32.816 --> 00:52:34.294 line:5%
If they don't like it,

1089
00:52:34.318 --> 00:52:37.088 line:5%
I'm going to boot their ass
right back out.

1090
00:52:37.112 --> 00:52:39.924
Anzaldo: I could definitely see
that she was using

1091
00:52:39.948 --> 00:52:42.719
and I took a liking to her.

1092
00:52:42.743 --> 00:52:44.471
And I said I would,
I would take her on.

1093
00:52:44.495 --> 00:52:45.805 line:5%
Announcer: Under way.

1094
00:52:45.829 --> 00:52:47.390 line:5%
The first round of Joanie Laurer

1095
00:52:47.414 --> 00:52:49.476 line:5%
against Joey Buttafuoco.

1096
00:52:49.500 --> 00:52:50.727
Anzaldo:
We started working together

1097
00:52:50.751 --> 00:52:52.562
and she was
a she was a train wreck.

1098
00:52:52.586 --> 00:52:55.523
But I loved her
and we had a great time.

1099
00:52:55.547 --> 00:52:58.068
- She's not even here right now.
- Yeah.

1100
00:52:58.092 --> 00:52:59.861 line:5%
He's checking you out
there, Joanie.

1101
00:52:59.885 --> 00:53:03.573 line:5%
Russo: When you watch
the reality TV shows,

1102
00:53:03.597 --> 00:53:07.744 line:5%
you saw somebody
that was out of control.

1103
00:53:07.768 --> 00:53:11.331 line:5%
And just out there on her own.

1104
00:53:11.355 --> 00:53:13.124
Simpson: Seeing her on
"The Surreal Life."

1105
00:53:13.148 --> 00:53:16.461 line:5%
I knew that was the start
of something bad

1106
00:53:16.485 --> 00:53:19.089 line:5%
because it
just escalated downhill

1107
00:53:19.113 --> 00:53:20.882 line:5%
even further from that point on.

1108
00:53:20.906 --> 00:53:23.551
And I guess she just said,
"Oh, well, screw it,

1109
00:53:23.575 --> 00:53:25.387
let's go ahead
and do porn and make money."

1110
00:53:25.411 --> 00:53:29.307 line:5%
♪♪

1111
00:53:29.331 --> 00:53:31.601 line:5%
I don't care if you're
a porn fan

1112
00:53:31.625 --> 00:53:35.313 line:5%
you're a wrestling fan,
you're a reality fan,

1113
00:53:35.337 --> 00:53:37.774 line:5%
you're going to love this movie.

1114
00:53:37.798 --> 00:53:40.819
Russo:
She's trying to get work.

1115
00:53:40.843 --> 00:53:44.989
A company comes along,
an adult film company

1116
00:53:45.013 --> 00:53:47.033
treats her with respect,

1117
00:53:47.057 --> 00:53:51.579
puts her high up on a pedestal,
gives her money.

1118
00:53:51.603 --> 00:53:54.833
I understand that.

1119
00:53:54.857 --> 00:53:56.876 line:5%
What's wrong with it,
if I do it in

1120
00:53:56.900 --> 00:53:59.087 line:5%
a sexy safe environment
where I have control

1121
00:53:59.111 --> 00:54:01.965 line:5%
and they're going to
make me feel beautiful?

1122
00:54:01.989 --> 00:54:06.636 line:5%
And, you know, maybe mentally
I couldn't go any worse.

1123
00:54:06.660 --> 00:54:08.888 line:5%
I just feel like
I lived in a hell forever,

1124
00:54:08.912 --> 00:54:10.849 line:5%
I just want to...
- You did.

1125
00:54:10.873 --> 00:54:18.630
{\an7}It was just a spiral down that,
like, nobody could stop but her.

1126
00:54:25.220 --> 00:54:28.640 line:5%
Potylo: We made it across
the whole damn country.

1127
00:54:31.435 --> 00:54:32.745
Chyna: It's home.

1128
00:54:32.769 --> 00:54:34.956
And the smell,
I can feel the ocean.

1129
00:54:34.980 --> 00:54:37.709
All my life,
I always wanted to be in L.A.

1130
00:54:37.733 --> 00:54:41.379
and I made that happen
and now I'm returning to L.A.

1131
00:54:41.403 --> 00:54:44.382
And it's just, I am
so excited right now.

1132
00:54:44.406 --> 00:54:48.553 line:5%
♪♪

1133
00:54:48.577 --> 00:54:51.973
Every morning. Wait till you
get it in the morning.

1134
00:54:51.997 --> 00:54:54.184
If you cannot be happy here,
you're dead.

1135
00:54:54.208 --> 00:54:57.920
[ Laughs ]

1136
00:55:00.255 --> 00:55:04.068
Chyna:
♪ Welcome to California ♪

1137
00:55:04.092 --> 00:55:05.987
Potylo: By the time we got
to California,

1138
00:55:06.011 --> 00:55:08.698
we knew that there was
a lot of problems, man.

1139
00:55:08.722 --> 00:55:11.618
{\an3}♪ I tried to warn ya ♪

1140
00:55:11.642 --> 00:55:14.662 line:5%
♪♪

1141
00:55:14.686 --> 00:55:16.730
♪ Welcome to California ♪

1142
00:55:33.038 --> 00:55:37.393
She had a wonderful,
I feel like, child-like spirit

1143
00:55:37.417 --> 00:55:40.647
that always was with her.

1144
00:55:40.671 --> 00:55:44.609
But she obviously needs help.

1145
00:55:44.633 --> 00:55:48.363
- Very good.
- Oh, thanks.

1146
00:55:48.387 --> 00:55:53.117
Dr. Pinsky: Trauma is the rocket
fuel for drug addiction.

1147
00:55:53.141 --> 00:55:55.078 line:5%
I always said,
"If you have bad enough

1148
00:55:55.102 --> 00:55:56.871 line:5%
addiction that you need to
see me."

1149
00:55:56.895 --> 00:55:59.290 line:5%
I treated only
the most serious cases.

1150
00:55:59.314 --> 00:56:01.595
You had a hundred percent
probability of childhood trauma.

1151
00:56:05.153 --> 00:56:07.799
{\an7}Woman: Can you tell me
about her as a little girl?

1152
00:56:07.823 --> 00:56:13.221
Laque:
From the time I can remember,
she'd like to entertain.

1153
00:56:13.245 --> 00:56:16.140
And she would put on
puppet shows.

1154
00:56:16.164 --> 00:56:19.644
Hamilton: Lots of dancing.

1155
00:56:19.668 --> 00:56:24.148 line:5%
She was really happy,
fun little girl.

1156
00:56:24.172 --> 00:56:27.235
Joanie, they had
a lot of her dad's traits.

1157
00:56:27.259 --> 00:56:29.279
Oh, Joe was so charming.

1158
00:56:29.303 --> 00:56:31.364
He was charming
and good looking,

1159
00:56:31.388 --> 00:56:35.034
and Joanie was, too...
Charming and good looking.

1160
00:56:35.058 --> 00:56:37.078
Hamilton: My mom and dad
were going through

1161
00:56:37.102 --> 00:56:41.082
a lot of marital problems
while we were young.

1162
00:56:41.106 --> 00:56:44.294
Laque: The major difficulty was
living with my husband,

1163
00:56:44.318 --> 00:56:47.839
who was an alcoholic
and a drug addict.

1164
00:56:47.863 --> 00:56:54.012
She saw some pretty
raucous fights between us.

1165
00:56:54.036 --> 00:56:58.099
{\an1}There was an incident where Joe
stabbed me with a butcher knife.

1166
00:56:58.123 --> 00:57:01.084
I don't really know
how much effect it had on her.

1167
00:57:02.961 --> 00:57:05.440
Hamilton: Eventually, that
relationship ended permanently.

1168
00:57:05.464 --> 00:57:10.778
But I think there was probably
a lot of lasting impact

1169
00:57:10.802 --> 00:57:12.238
emotionally on Joanie,

1170
00:57:12.262 --> 00:57:15.783
especially since she was
younger.

1171
00:57:15.807 --> 00:57:21.080
Chyna:
There was lots of stepmothers,
stepfathers coming in and out,

1172
00:57:21.104 --> 00:57:25.960
and my mother was very,
very dysfunctional.

1173
00:57:25.984 --> 00:57:29.839
I would go get away from all
the yelling and screaming,

1174
00:57:29.863 --> 00:57:32.366
really kind
of separating myself.

1175
00:57:34.785 --> 00:57:37.764 line:5%
I believe she would just say,
"I just wanted to be loved."

1176
00:57:37.788 --> 00:57:39.557
That's what she was
always searching for,

1177
00:57:39.581 --> 00:57:45.605
was the love and the approval
and the acceptance.

1178
00:57:45.629 --> 00:57:47.649
Maybe a couple of months
before her 16th birthday,

1179
00:57:47.673 --> 00:57:53.488
her personality really changed.
She was out of control.

1180
00:57:53.512 --> 00:57:55.990
I always thought
it was like the aliens came down

1181
00:57:56.014 --> 00:57:58.034
and snatched her.

1182
00:57:58.058 --> 00:58:00.286
And put a different personality
in her body

1183
00:58:00.310 --> 00:58:02.789
because she wasn't
the same Joan anymore.

1184
00:58:02.813 --> 00:58:04.540
Her grades are plummeting.

1185
00:58:04.564 --> 00:58:06.125
I was told that
she was hanging around

1186
00:58:06.149 --> 00:58:10.254
with a bad crowd of kids
that were using drugs.

1187
00:58:10.278 --> 00:58:12.840
I think we could
have handled that

1188
00:58:12.864 --> 00:58:14.342
if it hadn't been
for her father,

1189
00:58:14.366 --> 00:58:17.929
who was now on the scene
telling her,

1190
00:58:17.953 --> 00:58:19.430
"You can come and live with me,

1191
00:58:19.454 --> 00:58:22.684
you won't have to follow any of
the rules."

1192
00:58:22.708 --> 00:58:24.727
When she turned 16,

1193
00:58:24.751 --> 00:58:28.356
she made the choice to go live
with her father.

1194
00:58:28.380 --> 00:58:30.316
That's the last time I saw her.

1195
00:58:30.340 --> 00:58:35.697 line:5%
♪♪

1196
00:58:35.721 --> 00:58:41.077 line:5%
♪♪

1197
00:58:41.101 --> 00:58:44.414 line:5%
Anzaldo: I'm happy,
happier than I was yesterday,

1198
00:58:44.438 --> 00:58:46.958 line:5%
not quite as happy
as I'm going to be tomorrow.

1199
00:58:46.982 --> 00:58:49.627 line:5%
That's how I live my life.

1200
00:58:49.651 --> 00:58:53.589
{\an1}There are moments, but you catch
yourself because you're trained.

1201
00:58:53.613 --> 00:58:55.967 line:5%
It's a lifestyle.

1202
00:58:55.991 --> 00:59:03.474
{\an7}And that's the spiritual aspect
of where I was going with Chyna.

1203
00:59:03.498 --> 00:59:07.395
So make amends with your family,
that'll make you stronger,

1204
00:59:07.419 --> 00:59:13.317
will make you feel better.
It'll make you happier.

1205
00:59:13.341 --> 00:59:17.363
{\an1}Yasuda: The one thing I remember
about the documentary, she said,

1206
00:59:17.387 --> 00:59:22.326 line:5%
is Anthony was making her do
things she doesn't want to do.

1207
00:59:22.350 --> 00:59:25.329
She said that to me,
that she didn't want to go.

1208
00:59:25.353 --> 00:59:29.625
She didn't want to do it and
that he was making her to do it.

1209
00:59:29.649 --> 00:59:31.127
Chyna:
So now we're in Miami.

1210
00:59:31.151 --> 00:59:35.757
And I didn't want to go first
and then...

1211
00:59:35.781 --> 00:59:40.386
I think there's just
some closure that I need.

1212
00:59:40.410 --> 00:59:43.890
Dad was like a chameleon,
you know, like,

1213
00:59:43.914 --> 00:59:48.311
he's sort of a stockbroker,
and he'd wear the coat every day

1214
00:59:48.335 --> 00:59:52.273
and then two months later
he was a Hell's Angel.

1215
00:59:52.297 --> 00:59:55.359
So it was like that movie
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

1216
00:59:55.383 --> 00:59:59.614
And I know it sounds mean
I'm almost relieved

1217
00:59:59.638 --> 01:00:02.867
that he died because.

1218
01:00:02.891 --> 01:00:05.369
I feel like I would have
been over in Tokyo

1219
01:00:05.393 --> 01:00:11.250
waiting for dad to come through,
still.

1220
01:00:11.274 --> 01:00:12.627
So we're going to go
to the grave

1221
01:00:12.651 --> 01:00:17.256
and I'm just going
to say my goodbyes.

1222
01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:19.634
It was very difficult day
for her,

1223
01:00:19.658 --> 01:00:21.427
very, very difficult day.

1224
01:00:21.451 --> 01:00:24.329
But let's keep
this process going.

1225
01:00:25.664 --> 01:00:27.767
[ Sniffles ]

1226
01:00:27.791 --> 01:00:35.191 line:5%
♪♪

1227
01:00:35.215 --> 01:00:38.069
Blais: The documentary she was
doing was getting her

1228
01:00:38.093 --> 01:00:39.570
to finally open up,

1229
01:00:39.594 --> 01:00:43.699 line:5%
and I think that put her
in a state of depression

1230
01:00:43.723 --> 01:00:48.204 line:5%
and it ended up pushing
her further into darkness.

1231
01:00:48.228 --> 01:00:50.540
[ Sniffles ]

1232
01:00:50.564 --> 01:00:52.482
Hey, man. See you around.

1233
01:00:53.608 --> 01:00:55.235
[ Sobs ]

1234
01:01:02.200 --> 01:01:05.471 line:5%
I was doing my third movie
for Vivid

1235
01:01:05.495 --> 01:01:10.601 line:5%
and I was getting painted in
this green paint like every day.

1236
01:01:10.625 --> 01:01:12.854
Green on my hair
and green up my nose

1237
01:01:12.878 --> 01:01:17.275
and green on my crotch
and like green everywhere.

1238
01:01:17.299 --> 01:01:19.402
Then I was like
picking up the bottle.

1239
01:01:19.426 --> 01:01:23.948
And I was like, "I'm going to,
I'm going to die.

1240
01:01:23.972 --> 01:01:25.950
I want to die."

1241
01:01:25.974 --> 01:01:31.914
I didn't have any work
in Hollywood or wrestling.

1242
01:01:31.938 --> 01:01:38.045
And so I was like, that's it.
I've had enough.

1243
01:01:38.069 --> 01:01:40.506
You know what?
Everybody's cut off.

1244
01:01:40.530 --> 01:01:42.675
You don't get me anymore.
I'm leavin'.

1245
01:01:42.699 --> 01:01:50.699 line:5%
♪♪

1246
01:01:52.918 --> 01:02:00.359 line:5%
Russo:
She picks up, she goes to Japan,
she becomes a schoolteacher.

1247
01:02:00.383 --> 01:02:02.528 line:5%
Yasuda: She was looking for
who she was again

1248
01:02:02.552 --> 01:02:08.993 line:5%
as a person who just wants
to have peaceful, normal life.

1249
01:02:09.017 --> 01:02:13.497
Chyna: The last three years,
I've been highly inebriated

1250
01:02:13.521 --> 01:02:17.585
and bad [Laughs] and miserable.

1251
01:02:17.609 --> 01:02:19.569
So here's different.

1252
01:02:22.572 --> 01:02:24.175
[ Sighs ]

1253
01:02:24.199 --> 01:02:27.803
Living my own life,
doing my own thing,

1254
01:02:27.827 --> 01:02:31.515
I have to travel
across the world to do it.

1255
01:02:31.539 --> 01:02:35.770
I'm going to be
one of those success stories.

1256
01:02:35.794 --> 01:02:37.688
Brian: I'm standing outside
the bishop's office,

1257
01:02:37.712 --> 01:02:40.441 line:5%
and this woman was there
who I hadn't seen before,

1258
01:02:40.465 --> 01:02:45.613 line:5%
so I introduced myself and, and
she said, "Hi, I'm Chyna."

1259
01:02:45.637 --> 01:02:48.199
And she said that she had
kind of a sketchy background

1260
01:02:48.223 --> 01:02:51.077
and she'd done a lot of things
in her life that she regretted

1261
01:02:51.101 --> 01:02:54.372
and she wanted
to have a new life.

1262
01:02:54.396 --> 01:02:57.500
In the back of my head,
I recognized the name Chyna

1263
01:02:57.524 --> 01:03:00.920
as a wrestler,
I thought, "It can't be."

1264
01:03:00.944 --> 01:03:04.507
This is the most famous
female wrestler in the world,

1265
01:03:04.531 --> 01:03:08.469
was just in my bishop's office.

1266
01:03:08.493 --> 01:03:12.515
She wanted to get baptized
because she wanted to put

1267
01:03:12.539 --> 01:03:17.520
some of those bad decisions that
were in her past behind her.

1268
01:03:17.544 --> 01:03:20.272
Blais: For like three or four
years, she was living in Japan

1269
01:03:20.296 --> 01:03:23.275
and I was in communication
with her through e-mail.

1270
01:03:23.299 --> 01:03:25.528
She went from dysfunctional
growing up

1271
01:03:25.552 --> 01:03:28.239 line:5%
and not having support
in a family setting

1272
01:03:28.263 --> 01:03:30.366 line:5%
to many, many years later,

1273
01:03:30.390 --> 01:03:32.576
now she has the family
of the WWF

1274
01:03:32.600 --> 01:03:35.246
and now she leaves that
and now she's alone again.

1275
01:03:35.270 --> 01:03:37.665
Now here she is many,
many years later

1276
01:03:37.689 --> 01:03:41.293
with this Mormon family
that's taking care of her.

1277
01:03:41.317 --> 01:03:42.586
Even though she was over there,

1278
01:03:42.610 --> 01:03:44.213
not really
in the business anymore,

1279
01:03:44.237 --> 01:03:47.299
the gossip and the rumors
still circulated about her.

1280
01:03:47.323 --> 01:03:50.261 line:5%
Following this Monday's RHOA,

1281
01:03:50.285 --> 01:03:52.930 line:5%
there was an interview
on the WWE Network

1282
01:03:52.954 --> 01:03:56.767
where Stone Cold Steve Austin
interviewed Triple H.

1283
01:03:56.791 --> 01:03:59.979
{\an7}I brought up Chyna. Man,
she had a hell of a run here.

1284
01:04:00.003 --> 01:04:01.480 line:5%
- Absolutely.
- Will she ever go into

1285
01:04:01.504 --> 01:04:03.482 line:5%
the Hall of Fame?
- From a career standpoint,

1286
01:04:03.506 --> 01:04:05.109 line:5%
shouldn't she be
in the Hall of Fame?

1287
01:04:05.133 --> 01:04:07.778
{\an9}Absolutely.
Bit difficult, though.

1288
01:04:07.802 --> 01:04:10.740 line:5%
And this is the flip side of
the coin that nobody looks at,

1289
01:04:10.764 --> 01:04:14.160
I got an eight year old kid
and my eight year old kid sees

1290
01:04:14.184 --> 01:04:16.912
Hall of Fame and my eight year
old kid goes on the Internet

1291
01:04:16.936 --> 01:04:19.665
to look at, oh, there's Chyna.
I never heard of her.

1292
01:04:19.689 --> 01:04:21.292
I'm eight years old.
I've never heard of that.

1293
01:04:21.316 --> 01:04:24.336
So I go take that in,
I punch it up and what comes up.

1294
01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:27.590
{\an3}And I'm not criticizing anybody.

1295
01:04:27.614 --> 01:04:30.384
I'm not criticizing lifestyle
choices, everybody has...

1296
01:04:30.408 --> 01:04:34.680
He's referring to Chyna's
adult career.

1297
01:04:34.704 --> 01:04:39.143
Do we really want to go down
the list of felons

1298
01:04:39.167 --> 01:04:41.979
who are in the WWE Hall of Fame,

1299
01:04:42.003 --> 01:04:45.649
people that have been
accused of murder?

1300
01:04:45.673 --> 01:04:49.945
Does he have any idea where she
was at that point in her life

1301
01:04:49.969 --> 01:04:51.822
when she had to make
that decision?

1302
01:04:51.846 --> 01:04:53.574
Somebody who has yet to hire me,

1303
01:04:53.598 --> 01:04:56.660
{\an3}and they hear Hunter
saying, "Google her,

1304
01:04:56.684 --> 01:05:00.956
she can't because of this."
That affects my career today.

1305
01:05:00.980 --> 01:05:04.794
So it still goes on.
And I have a problem with that.

1306
01:05:04.818 --> 01:05:09.590
That's why I'm in Japan
working as an English teacher.

1307
01:05:09.614 --> 01:05:11.675
Blais:
She wanted to make it known

1308
01:05:11.699 --> 01:05:15.137
that she earned
to be in that Hall the Fame.

1309
01:05:15.161 --> 01:05:19.517
You're still, you're still
putting the sword in my back.

1310
01:05:19.541 --> 01:05:23.813
There you are sitting married
to Stephanie McMahon

1311
01:05:23.837 --> 01:05:30.301
and in the McMahon empire
set for life, how dare you?

1312
01:05:32.804 --> 01:05:35.699 line:5%
There was a lot of things
that she was carrying

1313
01:05:35.723 --> 01:05:38.202 line:5%
on her shoulder from the past.

1314
01:05:38.226 --> 01:05:40.955
And then she didn't know
how to get back to the U.S.,

1315
01:05:40.979 --> 01:05:42.456
her visa ran out.

1316
01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:44.708
She didn't know
how to make a living

1317
01:05:44.732 --> 01:05:47.569
because she was not working.

1318
01:05:49.737 --> 01:05:53.092 line:5%
Laque: I was searching
for her for years.

1319
01:05:53.116 --> 01:05:55.344 line:5%
I just kept searching for her,
you know,

1320
01:05:55.368 --> 01:05:56.762 line:5%
and I couldn't find her.

1321
01:05:56.786 --> 01:06:01.058
I don't believe
she wanted to be found.

1322
01:06:01.082 --> 01:06:02.768
The first time we had contact

1323
01:06:02.792 --> 01:06:05.354
was when she called me
from Japan,

1324
01:06:05.378 --> 01:06:07.690
but it had been 30 years.

1325
01:06:07.714 --> 01:06:11.235
I couldn't believe it was her
and I'm like.

1326
01:06:11.259 --> 01:06:16.574
"Joanie, is that really you?"
She did most of the talking,

1327
01:06:16.598 --> 01:06:18.284
telling me about
her life in Japan

1328
01:06:18.308 --> 01:06:22.580
and what had happened to her,
the work visa situation

1329
01:06:22.604 --> 01:06:25.583
was such that she was
breaking immigration laws.

1330
01:06:25.607 --> 01:06:28.210
And so she had to come back
and I said,

1331
01:06:28.234 --> 01:06:31.505
"Well, if you do,
don't go back to California."

1332
01:06:31.529 --> 01:06:33.674
She said, "Well, mom,
what else am I going to do?

1333
01:06:33.698 --> 01:06:35.718
It's not like
I can get a job at McDonald's."

1334
01:06:35.742 --> 01:06:37.428
I said, "Sure you can.

1335
01:06:37.452 --> 01:06:40.514
You can get a job at McDonald's,
you know, flipping burgers

1336
01:06:40.538 --> 01:06:42.349
until you can find
something else."

1337
01:06:42.373 --> 01:06:44.768
Just get me out of here, man.

1338
01:06:44.792 --> 01:06:47.688 line:5%
All she wanted was to be
re-embraced by the only family

1339
01:06:47.712 --> 01:06:50.065 line:5%
that made sense to her,
which was the WWE

1340
01:06:50.089 --> 01:06:53.277 line:5%
that's all she wanted.
- Look at that.

1341
01:06:53.301 --> 01:06:54.987
You're talking about,
the greatest woman wrestler

1342
01:06:55.011 --> 01:06:57.948
of all time, this woman who
stretched the language

1343
01:06:57.972 --> 01:07:00.492
of what you can do
in sports entertainment.

1344
01:07:00.516 --> 01:07:03.037
Announcer:
takes on Jeff Jarrett...

1345
01:07:03.061 --> 01:07:06.457
Mankind: I talked to her about
the WWE Hall of Fame.

1346
01:07:06.481 --> 01:07:09.501 line:5%
You know, not to put
so much weight on it.

1347
01:07:09.525 --> 01:07:16.091 line:5%
♪♪

1348
01:07:16.115 --> 01:07:18.761 line:5%
We knew there was
a bad relationship,

1349
01:07:18.785 --> 01:07:22.223 line:5%
but nobody said
we can't go there.

1350
01:07:22.247 --> 01:07:25.726
We're going to ask for Hunter,
we're going to ask for Vince,

1351
01:07:25.750 --> 01:07:29.146
we're going to ask for business
and legal and economy.

1352
01:07:29.170 --> 01:07:31.398
And hope that we don't
get escorted out.

1353
01:07:31.422 --> 01:07:33.442
You know, we're going to get her
into the Hall of Fame.

1354
01:07:33.466 --> 01:07:37.720 line:5%
Anzaldo:
We're on a campaign to get her
into the Hall of Fame this year.

1355
01:07:47.855 --> 01:07:52.127
{\an3}Well, we were not
greeted favorably.

1356
01:07:52.151 --> 01:07:55.005
So I guess nobody's available
at the WWE

1357
01:07:55.029 --> 01:07:59.301
to speak with us at the moment,
but we're going to keep trying.

1358
01:07:59.325 --> 01:08:02.513
You know, we'll make it happen.
We'll figure it out.

1359
01:08:02.537 --> 01:08:04.014
Chyna:
When Anthony was at the desk

1360
01:08:04.038 --> 01:08:05.849
and I was standing there
next to him,

1361
01:08:05.873 --> 01:08:08.477
I could see people
getting on the elevator

1362
01:08:08.501 --> 01:08:10.938
and everybody was staring
right at me.

1363
01:08:10.962 --> 01:08:15.734
I got a couple smiles,
but that type of thing.

1364
01:08:15.758 --> 01:08:22.199 line:5%
♪♪

1365
01:08:22.223 --> 01:08:28.664 line:5%
♪♪

1366
01:08:28.688 --> 01:08:31.125
Potylo: By the time we got
to California,

1367
01:08:31.149 --> 01:08:32.710
she was really happy

1368
01:08:32.734 --> 01:08:36.588
and I lived with Chyna
for three months there.

1369
01:08:36.612 --> 01:08:38.340
Oh!

1370
01:08:38.364 --> 01:08:39.842
Well, hello.

1371
01:08:39.866 --> 01:08:42.469
To wake up in the morning with
Chyna to be like,

1372
01:08:42.493 --> 01:08:45.264
"Wake up Rob, we're going to
have apple smoothies."

1373
01:08:45.288 --> 01:08:49.143
I mean, she was so fun. She had
a fabulous sense of humor.

1374
01:08:49.167 --> 01:08:50.561
[ Laughs ]

1375
01:08:50.585 --> 01:08:53.647
And like, we had so much
freakin' fun.

1376
01:08:53.671 --> 01:08:55.274
And that way we leave
on a high note.

1377
01:08:55.298 --> 01:08:57.359
We shot funny videos together.

1378
01:08:57.383 --> 01:09:00.529
We did yoga on the beach.

1379
01:09:00.553 --> 01:09:02.614
Turn to the camera and just say

1380
01:09:02.638 --> 01:09:06.744
random things slowly and
dramatically now.

1381
01:09:06.768 --> 01:09:08.829
I mean, we were two outsiders.

1382
01:09:08.853 --> 01:09:10.622
And breathe.

1383
01:09:10.646 --> 01:09:13.959
And we found much peace
and happiness

1384
01:09:13.983 --> 01:09:18.005
just being around each other
for those three months.

1385
01:09:18.029 --> 01:09:19.840
My name is Robbie.

1386
01:09:19.864 --> 01:09:21.300
This is Chyna.

1387
01:09:21.324 --> 01:09:26.871
Another episode of WWY, WW Yoga.

1388
01:09:28.790 --> 01:09:30.601
We just had our own world,

1389
01:09:30.625 --> 01:09:33.604
and I never wanted
to let that summer go.

1390
01:09:33.628 --> 01:09:35.064
It was amazing.

1391
01:09:35.088 --> 01:09:38.275
One day we will
be walking in fields of gold.

1392
01:09:38.299 --> 01:09:44.573
{\an1}There will be no more rude
awakening, no more illusion.

1393
01:09:44.597 --> 01:09:47.409
Tap out.
Tap if you hear me.

1394
01:09:47.433 --> 01:09:49.953
Mankind: I'm so happy to hear
that she felt healthy

1395
01:09:49.977 --> 01:09:54.041
and she was beautiful place,
you know, overlook the ocean.

1396
01:09:54.065 --> 01:09:57.336
It was like, "Wow,
she's in a place where she can,

1397
01:09:57.360 --> 01:09:59.171
you know, feel good."

1398
01:09:59.195 --> 01:10:01.030
And I have the best unit
because it's a corner

1399
01:10:03.825 --> 01:10:08.263
And all the windows are,
like, out.

1400
01:10:08.287 --> 01:10:10.724
Plug my lights in.

1401
01:10:10.748 --> 01:10:13.977
Potylo:
I tried to be the voice on the
other end that would be like,

1402
01:10:14.001 --> 01:10:15.604
"Hey, you
okay, what's going on?"

1403
01:10:15.628 --> 01:10:19.108
And and then I moved
to Hollywood and then that's

1404
01:10:19.132 --> 01:10:22.009
when things really started
coming off the rails.

1405
01:10:26.889 --> 01:10:29.451 line:5%
Angra: So I'm just going to
knock on the door in a second.

1406
01:10:29.475 --> 01:10:30.953 line:5%
[ Knocks ]

1407
01:10:30.977 --> 01:10:36.458
Alright, go for it
and then, you know. Yeah.

1408
01:10:36.482 --> 01:10:41.338
Hey, what's up,
come on into my crib.

1409
01:10:41.362 --> 01:10:43.382
Anzaldo: At night,
she was out of control...

1410
01:10:43.406 --> 01:10:47.928 line:5%
cheap wine and her Valium
and whatever other

1411
01:10:47.952 --> 01:10:53.475 line:5%
funky pill she had from the day
back in Japan

1412
01:10:53.499 --> 01:10:56.335
or whatever that
I was unaware of.

1413
01:10:58.588 --> 01:11:00.232 line:5%
So beautiful.

1414
01:11:00.256 --> 01:11:04.403 line:5%
I'm the luckiest woman in the
world just for today.

1415
01:11:04.427 --> 01:11:07.698 line:5%
She sent me an e-mail when she
was in Cincinnati at a Comic-Con

1416
01:11:07.722 --> 01:11:12.327 line:5%
and she was sick
and Anthony was pushing her.

1417
01:11:12.351 --> 01:11:15.164
I sort of started
to get the feeling

1418
01:11:15.188 --> 01:11:19.001
that he was kind of controlling
things at that point.

1419
01:11:19.025 --> 01:11:23.672
I know this is, you know, I
signed up for this for the doc.

1420
01:11:23.696 --> 01:11:28.886
And the only reason I'm
sharing these small bits here

1421
01:11:28.910 --> 01:11:31.472
and there is because,

1422
01:11:31.496 --> 01:11:34.266
you know, it all looks
like unicorns and rainbows.

1423
01:11:34.290 --> 01:11:35.934
And for the most part,
every day...

1424
01:11:35.958 --> 01:11:38.353
I gonna get [Indistinct speech]
for really, really.

1425
01:11:38.377 --> 01:11:40.397
But I did want to show you that,
you know,

1426
01:11:40.421 --> 01:11:44.902
that I am putting in the work
and and what is happening here.

1427
01:11:44.926 --> 01:11:46.904
Well, it seems that I think
it's going to be

1428
01:11:46.928 --> 01:11:48.447
an amazing story and...

1429
01:11:48.471 --> 01:11:54.203 line:5%
♪♪

1430
01:11:54.227 --> 01:11:57.039
Potylo:
He cared about the movie,
he cared about how he was going

1431
01:11:57.063 --> 01:11:58.832
to look like the provider
in the movie,

1432
01:11:58.856 --> 01:12:02.544 line:5%
just didn't quite plan on how he
was actually going to fix her.

1433
01:12:02.568 --> 01:12:06.924
And I don't think
he really cared too much.

1434
01:12:06.948 --> 01:12:10.052
Dr. Pinsky: People have this
grave lack of understanding

1435
01:12:10.076 --> 01:12:14.056
about trying to heal the past.
It's a low priority.

1436
01:12:14.080 --> 01:12:15.974 line:5%
The here and now is what counts.

1437
01:12:15.998 --> 01:12:18.352 line:5%
And we have a deadly illness
we got to treat that

1438
01:12:18.376 --> 01:12:21.188 line:5%
and then we have to build the
capacity to regulate emotions.

1439
01:12:21.212 --> 01:12:24.733 line:5%
And then maybe there's
some opportunity to, you know,

1440
01:12:24.757 --> 01:12:28.570
continue inside to continue
looking at what the things were

1441
01:12:28.594 --> 01:12:30.405
that set you up if they want.

1442
01:12:30.429 --> 01:12:33.909
{\an1}It doesn't really do anything to
magically confront your abusers

1443
01:12:33.933 --> 01:12:37.770
nothing except maybe stir you up
more and make you want to use.

1444
01:12:40.022 --> 01:12:44.545
{\an1}We are going black market
on some Ambien, right?

1445
01:12:44.569 --> 01:12:46.713
Some Ambien 10?
- Ambien and the Diazepam.

1446
01:12:46.737 --> 01:12:48.882
We're probably... Oh, and we did
the Diazepam, too?

1447
01:12:48.906 --> 01:12:52.135
- No, we have to do the Diazepam.
- I was going to say so.

1448
01:12:52.159 --> 01:12:54.555
{\an1}Should we do that today?
Let's do that now. Okay.

1449
01:12:54.579 --> 01:12:57.182
{\an1}And I think we'll keep that
from Dr. Drew for the moment.

1450
01:12:57.206 --> 01:12:59.184
There's a part of me that
doesn't want to

1451
01:12:59.208 --> 01:13:01.144
give him information
he would rather not know

1452
01:13:01.168 --> 01:13:02.521
because it incriminates him.

1453
01:13:02.545 --> 01:13:04.690
But we're not doing
anything illegal.

1454
01:13:04.714 --> 01:13:06.024
This is a legal practice

1455
01:13:06.048 --> 01:13:07.818
{\an1}to order medicine
from another country.

1456
01:13:07.842 --> 01:13:10.028
How are you, Dr. Drew?

1457
01:13:10.052 --> 01:13:12.573 line:5%
Dr. Pinsky:
I'm good. I'm mortified that
you're having such trouble.

1458
01:13:12.597 --> 01:13:16.243
I have, like, 10 Halcion left.

1459
01:13:16.267 --> 01:13:19.538
This is a totally crazy
combination of medicine.

1460
01:13:19.562 --> 01:13:22.207
- Yeah.
- That dangerous and crazy.

1461
01:13:22.231 --> 01:13:25.836
- Okay.
- That's why I need you to go

1462
01:13:25.860 --> 01:13:27.129
see somebody
as soon as possible.

1463
01:13:27.153 --> 01:13:29.590
Yes.

1464
01:13:29.614 --> 01:13:32.676
{\an1}And then isn't there some
OxyContin in there, too?

1465
01:13:32.700 --> 01:13:35.012
- Say it again?
- Yes.

1466
01:13:35.036 --> 01:13:37.014
{\an3}But I haven't been taking that.

1467
01:13:37.038 --> 01:13:38.432
- Okay.
- What's that?

1468
01:13:38.456 --> 01:13:40.434
OxyContin.

1469
01:13:40.458 --> 01:13:45.480
I don't know that that would be
definitely a death tonic.

1470
01:13:45.504 --> 01:13:48.025
That would be potentially
a death mixture.

1471
01:13:48.049 --> 01:13:50.110
If you added opiates to what
you're doing,

1472
01:13:50.134 --> 01:13:51.737
you would not breathe.

1473
01:13:51.761 --> 01:13:54.406
So that's really bad news.

1474
01:13:54.430 --> 01:13:57.534
Opiate addiction is fatal.
It's deadly, deadly, deadly.

1475
01:13:57.558 --> 01:14:00.203
And my recollection is she was
on the benzo opiate combo

1476
01:14:00.227 --> 01:14:02.205
that was killing so many people.

1477
01:14:02.229 --> 01:14:04.374
And you've got to get
you've got to get seen.

1478
01:14:04.398 --> 01:14:06.376
You've got to get taken care of
when you're on that.

1479
01:14:06.400 --> 01:14:09.921
{\an1}Well, in the meantime, though,
while this stuff is dangerous,

1480
01:14:09.945 --> 01:14:13.300
obviously, and we certainly
understand that,

1481
01:14:13.324 --> 01:14:17.512
it is keeping her, you know,
I mean it's...

1482
01:14:17.536 --> 01:14:18.805
- Well, it's...
- No, no, no I'm not...

1483
01:14:18.829 --> 01:14:21.266
{\an1}It's an evil necessity
it seems like.

1484
01:14:21.290 --> 01:14:23.060
Dr. Pinsky: We've got to get
some of this straightened out.

1485
01:14:23.084 --> 01:14:25.395
- Yeah. Okay.
- Dangerous.

1486
01:14:25.419 --> 01:14:27.356
Dr. Pinsky:
And if you have something else,
getting slipped in there,

1487
01:14:27.380 --> 01:14:30.984
it could be a catastrophe.

1488
01:14:31.008 --> 01:14:34.404
Even alcohol could be enough
to put you over the edge.

1489
01:14:34.428 --> 01:14:37.366
She was going to be coming...
This is what Anthony told me.

1490
01:14:37.390 --> 01:14:40.535
She was going to be
coming to Charlotte,

1491
01:14:40.559 --> 01:14:43.997
to do one of those autograph
signing things.

1492
01:14:44.021 --> 01:14:47.250
And he said, I think it would be
great if you would reunite

1493
01:14:47.274 --> 01:14:52.047
with her and we could film it
on camera for the documentary.

1494
01:14:52.071 --> 01:14:56.635 line:5%
You'll always get
the straight shooter from me.

1495
01:14:56.659 --> 01:14:59.429 line:5%
If she falls off,
you're going to know about it.

1496
01:14:59.453 --> 01:15:01.264 line:5%
And that way you can stay clear,

1497
01:15:01.288 --> 01:15:04.267
{\an7}and you're not going to be
part of the game anymore.

1498
01:15:04.291 --> 01:15:06.061
You're only going
to get the good.

1499
01:15:06.085 --> 01:15:10.524
My initial reaction was it would
be great to reunite with her,

1500
01:15:10.548 --> 01:15:13.944
but I am not going on camera
with my daughter

1501
01:15:13.968 --> 01:15:17.572
seeing her for the first time
in 30 years.

1502
01:15:17.596 --> 01:15:19.074
I'm just not going to do it.

1503
01:15:19.098 --> 01:15:21.993
He didn't like that very much.

1504
01:15:22.017 --> 01:15:26.081
And, you know,
"Well, you need to some."

1505
01:15:26.105 --> 01:15:29.292
"She needs to
see you," etc., etc.

1506
01:15:29.316 --> 01:15:31.044
So I said, "Okay."

1507
01:15:31.068 --> 01:15:35.006
Anzaldo:
Finally, we've gotten to a place
where they think

1508
01:15:35.030 --> 01:15:38.927
that they can meet up
first time in 30 years.

1509
01:15:38.951 --> 01:15:42.055
Laque: The day before
we were scheduled to go.

1510
01:15:42.079 --> 01:15:46.143
I get this horrific
e-mail from her.

1511
01:15:46.167 --> 01:15:47.602
You know, I can't even...

1512
01:15:47.626 --> 01:15:49.521
I don't even want to use some of
the words.

1513
01:15:49.545 --> 01:15:52.691
And I thought, "Oh, dear,
something's wrong."

1514
01:15:52.715 --> 01:15:57.028
I wanted to see her. I mean, you
know, I haven't seen her in

1515
01:15:57.052 --> 01:16:00.264
30 years, but I didn't want to
see her like that.

1516
01:16:02.683 --> 01:16:05.662
Anzaldo: I call her mother.
It's not good.

1517
01:16:05.686 --> 01:16:09.291
She says, "I can't come."
So I had to go sit with Chyna

1518
01:16:09.315 --> 01:16:14.004
and I had to tell her,
"Your mom's not coming."

1519
01:16:14.028 --> 01:16:17.966
And she lost it. She was upset.

1520
01:16:17.990 --> 01:16:20.177
Next morning, 9:00 a.m.,

1521
01:16:20.201 --> 01:16:23.930
I walk in, knock on her door,
she answers.

1522
01:16:23.954 --> 01:16:30.312
She's been up all night
and an absolute train wreck.

1523
01:16:30.336 --> 01:16:32.105
And I said, "Sweetie,
when we get home,

1524
01:16:32.129 --> 01:16:36.443
we have to make some serious
changes, you're going to die."

1525
01:16:36.467 --> 01:16:40.405
She stood up, she picked me up,
and she held me like this,

1526
01:16:40.429 --> 01:16:44.701
"How dare you say that to me?
You're fired!"

1527
01:16:44.725 --> 01:16:46.745
And I started laughing at her.

1528
01:16:46.769 --> 01:16:48.371
"What are you talking about
fired?

1529
01:16:48.395 --> 01:16:52.250
I'm not your manager,
I'm your soul mate."

1530
01:16:52.274 --> 01:16:53.877
And she says,
"I want you out of my life

1531
01:16:53.901 --> 01:16:55.879
and I want you out
of my life now."

1532
01:16:55.903 --> 01:17:00.091
And that was the last time
her and I communicated.

1533
01:17:00.115 --> 01:17:01.760
Once she got home,

1534
01:17:01.784 --> 01:17:05.329
I'm monitoring the situation
from behind the scenes.

1535
01:17:07.456 --> 01:17:10.143
♪ Me, myself, and I ♪

1536
01:17:10.167 --> 01:17:14.397
[ Vocalizing ]

1537
01:17:14.421 --> 01:17:17.776
♪ Whoo-ooh
I got me, myself, and I ♪

1538
01:17:17.800 --> 01:17:19.236
♪ And I don't want to deny ♪

1539
01:17:19.260 --> 01:17:21.780
[ Vocalizing ]

1540
01:17:21.804 --> 01:17:24.115
Potylo: I knew we were in
so much trouble that day.

1541
01:17:24.139 --> 01:17:26.409
I didn't know, obviously,
it was going to be the last time

1542
01:17:26.433 --> 01:17:28.912
I's see her,
but it was off the rails.

1543
01:17:28.936 --> 01:17:32.457
But that's what Erik advertised
when we were going in there.

1544
01:17:32.481 --> 01:17:34.251
"Uh, she's pretty nuts today.

1545
01:17:34.275 --> 01:17:36.503
So let's just try to
grab her in this

1546
01:17:36.527 --> 01:17:37.987
and we'll use this for the doc."

1547
01:17:39.029 --> 01:17:44.761 line:5%
[ Vocalizing ]

1548
01:17:44.785 --> 01:17:48.139 line:5%
Potylo:
It's WrestleMania weekend.

1549
01:17:48.163 --> 01:17:52.519
Her ex-boyfriend,
Triple H, is headlining.

1550
01:17:52.543 --> 01:17:54.437
She's broken off
with her manager.

1551
01:17:54.461 --> 01:17:57.190
She doesn't have
a support system.

1552
01:17:57.214 --> 01:17:59.258
Any questions?

1553
01:18:01.510 --> 01:18:03.363
Angra: Yeah, I just
I was just thinking

1554
01:18:03.387 --> 01:18:05.866
we should because all the shit
that's been happening this week

1555
01:18:05.890 --> 01:18:07.450
with Anthony and you...
- First of all,

1556
01:18:07.474 --> 01:18:08.910
can you give me a hug?

1557
01:18:08.934 --> 01:18:10.370
Potylo: And this is where
Erik Angra decides,

1558
01:18:10.394 --> 01:18:12.038
"Oh, let's get our interview now
with her

1559
01:18:12.062 --> 01:18:15.917
that we haven't gotten before."
- Darling, this way.

1560
01:18:15.941 --> 01:18:17.961
Potylo: And it's not just Erik
and it's not just Anthony.

1561
01:18:17.985 --> 01:18:20.338
It's not just the WWE
and it's not just her,

1562
01:18:20.362 --> 01:18:22.799
but it's everything.
- What's his deal like?

1563
01:18:22.823 --> 01:18:24.634
{\an1}Erik: How would you describe him
to somebody who never met him?

1564
01:18:24.658 --> 01:18:26.970
You know, because he seems nice.
- I love Anthony.

1565
01:18:26.994 --> 01:18:32.350
He's he would I know in a minute
he would die for me.

1566
01:18:32.374 --> 01:18:33.810 line:5%
Every time I watch
the interview,

1567
01:18:33.834 --> 01:18:35.478 line:5%
the final one where I ask her
these questions,

1568
01:18:35.502 --> 01:18:38.440 line:5%
I can hear my voice is.
I can tell that I'm high

1569
01:18:38.464 --> 01:18:40.734 line:5%
because I know how my voice is.
And it's very monotone.

1570
01:18:40.758 --> 01:18:43.820
And I'm asking her, you know,
all these questions

1571
01:18:43.844 --> 01:18:45.655
when she's like clearly like
asking for help.

1572
01:18:45.679 --> 01:18:50.327
I have a horrible anxiety
issues. I can't sleep.

1573
01:18:50.351 --> 01:18:54.331
I'm having a hard time eating.
I need some help.

1574
01:18:54.355 --> 01:18:56.875
What do you want me?
Can you help me?

1575
01:18:56.899 --> 01:18:58.335
And I'm saying things like,

1576
01:18:58.359 --> 01:19:00.754
"Well, I just how does
that make you feel?

1577
01:19:00.778 --> 01:19:04.466
I spent a long... 10 years,
15 years,

1578
01:19:04.490 --> 01:19:10.955
I don't know how long now.
But I-I'm tired.

1579
01:19:14.708 --> 01:19:17.711
I'm Chyna. I'm a champion.

1580
01:19:19.296 --> 01:19:21.858
[ Scoffs ]

1581
01:19:21.882 --> 01:19:24.694
My brother and my mom,
and then Anthony started

1582
01:19:24.718 --> 01:19:27.864
getting involved
and everything, and I'm like...

1583
01:19:27.888 --> 01:19:31.785
Is there one person that
could... support me, here?

1584
01:19:31.809 --> 01:19:37.082
Did I do something
that bad with my life?

1585
01:19:37.106 --> 01:19:43.338 line:5%
♪♪

1586
01:19:43.362 --> 01:19:49.678 line:5%
♪♪

1587
01:19:49.702 --> 01:19:52.180
{\an1}If you could go back and change
something, what would you do?

1588
01:19:52.204 --> 01:19:53.640
I would never do it again.

1589
01:19:53.664 --> 01:19:56.434
- Never do what though, anything?
- Never wrestling.

1590
01:19:56.458 --> 01:20:00.129
I would have been a concert
musician or a ballerina.

1591
01:20:01.755 --> 01:20:05.068
Professional alcoholic, and I'm
just kidding, man, I'm just

1592
01:20:05.092 --> 01:20:08.029
pushing buttons right now.

1593
01:20:08.053 --> 01:20:09.489
Have you been drinking today?

1594
01:20:09.513 --> 01:20:12.701
No, not yet.

1595
01:20:12.725 --> 01:20:14.285
Angra: Would I have been
more proactive to help her?

1596
01:20:14.309 --> 01:20:16.121
Would I've been better ethically
to, like, figure out

1597
01:20:16.145 --> 01:20:17.497
what the right decision was?

1598
01:20:17.521 --> 01:20:18.748
Or was it
because I was on heroin?

1599
01:20:18.772 --> 01:20:20.834
I could very
coldly interview her

1600
01:20:20.858 --> 01:20:22.252
and ask her these questions
when I knew

1601
01:20:22.276 --> 01:20:25.505
she was endangering herself.

1602
01:20:25.529 --> 01:20:28.967
I don't know is this shit
interesting to anybody?

1603
01:20:28.991 --> 01:20:30.885
- It is.
- Why?

1604
01:20:30.909 --> 01:20:32.137
-This is something
really important and big...

1605
01:20:32.161 --> 01:20:33.722
They don't even know me.

1606
01:20:33.746 --> 01:20:35.181
I mean, I'll never forget,
you know, afterwards,

1607
01:20:35.205 --> 01:20:37.017
like I said,
just being in that car

1608
01:20:37.041 --> 01:20:39.185
and Erik,
"Oh, she seems fine, right?"

1609
01:20:39.209 --> 01:20:42.605
Like just trying to continue
to make this the reality.

1610
01:20:42.629 --> 01:20:45.942
And I remember just screaming
at him, "Get her help!"

1611
01:20:45.966 --> 01:20:48.653
And Erik's, like, "Well,
you don't have to be like that,

1612
01:20:48.677 --> 01:20:51.072 line:5%
but we'll see what we can do."

1613
01:20:51.096 --> 01:20:53.950 line:5%
Chyna: Morning, everyone.

1614
01:20:53.974 --> 01:20:57.245 line:5%
[ Clears throat ]

1615
01:20:57.269 --> 01:21:02.125
I saw a post where
she had this big black eye.

1616
01:21:02.149 --> 01:21:06.445
And that's when I went, "Oh,
boy, I got to do something now."

1617
01:21:10.365 --> 01:21:11.593
It's a beautiful Sunday,
guess what?

1618
01:21:11.617 --> 01:21:13.261
Let's go make a little smoothie.

1619
01:21:13.285 --> 01:21:15.889
Anzaldo: Anthony calls up the
TV show intervention,

1620
01:21:15.913 --> 01:21:20.185
made the calls, reached out
to professionals

1621
01:21:20.209 --> 01:21:22.479 line:5%
in the business
of interventions,

1622
01:21:22.503 --> 01:21:25.899
and it was planned for Thursday,
a week away.

1623
01:21:25.923 --> 01:21:28.526 line:5%
And I'm like, "Dude, what are we
doing? Get her help.

1624
01:21:28.550 --> 01:21:31.696 line:5%
Let's get the rehab now.
Let's do the intervention."

1625
01:21:31.720 --> 01:21:36.785
Haven't done this for anybody
since I was 7.

1626
01:21:36.809 --> 01:21:39.913
And it's this big.

1627
01:21:39.937 --> 01:21:41.498
Angra: I did heroin
the night that I was supposed

1628
01:21:41.522 --> 01:21:43.333
to go over there and I canceled

1629
01:21:43.357 --> 01:21:45.001
because I lied to her
and said I was sick.

1630
01:21:45.025 --> 01:21:53.025 line:5%
♪♪

1631
01:21:53.575 --> 01:21:55.428 line:5%
Chyna: Hey, man, It's me.

1632
01:21:55.452 --> 01:21:59.140 line:5%
I'm sorry
that you're feeling sick.

1633
01:21:59.164 --> 01:22:01.392 line:5%
I was just wondering
if you're okay.

1634
01:22:01.416 --> 01:22:03.394
I'm just glad you're out here.

1635
01:22:03.418 --> 01:22:07.840
I know what we're going to do.
It's going to be so spectacular.

1636
01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:12.862
[ Sighs ]

1637
01:22:12.886 --> 01:22:16.324
And I am doing much better
and when I'm here.

1638
01:22:16.348 --> 01:22:18.326
Love you, bye.

1639
01:22:18.350 --> 01:22:24.999 line:5%
♪♪

1640
01:22:25.023 --> 01:22:28.419 line:5%
Perlmutter:
I didn't hear from her.

1641
01:22:28.443 --> 01:22:31.506 line:5%
Was calling her the Saturday
the Sunday,

1642
01:22:31.530 --> 01:22:33.466 line:5%
so I called Anthony to
see what's going on,

1643
01:22:33.490 --> 01:22:37.804 line:5%
I couldn't get hold of her.

1644
01:22:37.828 --> 01:22:40.682
Anzaldo:
She's not responding to anybody.

1645
01:22:40.706 --> 01:22:44.585
My hope was that she had
just lost her cell phone.

1646
01:22:46.670 --> 01:22:48.857
Potylo: And so he went over
there and coincidentally,

1647
01:22:48.881 --> 01:22:52.026
he had another person
with him to film

1648
01:22:52.050 --> 01:22:54.737
and apparently
he was going up there

1649
01:22:54.761 --> 01:22:58.283
to talk to her
about intervention

1650
01:22:58.307 --> 01:23:02.912
or talk some sense into her.

1651
01:23:02.936 --> 01:23:04.414
Chyna?

1652
01:23:04.438 --> 01:23:07.792 line:5%
♪♪

1653
01:23:07.816 --> 01:23:10.420
I kind of knew.

1654
01:23:10.444 --> 01:23:16.217
Turned the corner,
looked in her bedroom,

1655
01:23:16.241 --> 01:23:21.121
and there she was.
Lying in her bed.

1656
01:23:23.290 --> 01:23:28.396
As peaceful. As she could be.

1657
01:23:28.420 --> 01:23:33.443
And around six o'clock,
Erik calls and he's just like,

1658
01:23:33.467 --> 01:23:36.863
"Yeah, Chyna's gone, dude."

1659
01:23:36.887 --> 01:23:38.865
I'm like,
"What do you mean she's gone?"

1660
01:23:38.889 --> 01:23:41.868
And he's like,
Anthony found her this morning.

1661
01:23:41.892 --> 01:23:44.245
He didn't want me
to even call you.

1662
01:23:44.269 --> 01:23:47.123
And I've seen the footage
and he brags about it

1663
01:23:47.147 --> 01:23:49.792
a lot afterwards,
how he had that footage.

1664
01:23:49.816 --> 01:23:53.421
Anybody in their right mind
to think that was worth anything

1665
01:23:53.445 --> 01:23:56.299
but destroying immediately
afterwards,

1666
01:23:56.323 --> 01:23:57.842
you know, they got problems.

1667
01:23:57.866 --> 01:24:00.720
It's a shocker for millions
of wrestling fans.

1668
01:24:00.744 --> 01:24:03.789
WWE legend Chyna has died.

1669
01:24:06.625 --> 01:24:09.312 line:5%
It's the same feeling
and thought I have every time

1670
01:24:09.336 --> 01:24:12.899 line:5%
doctor prescribed medication
was killing my patients.

1671
01:24:12.923 --> 01:24:18.404
Like just a sinking horrible.
Like, "Another one."

1672
01:24:18.428 --> 01:24:25.495 line:5%
♪♪

1673
01:24:25.519 --> 01:24:32.585 line:5%
♪♪

1674
01:24:32.609 --> 01:24:35.546 line:5%
Hamilton:
I don't want to say that she
intentionally took her own life,

1675
01:24:35.570 --> 01:24:38.007 line:5%
I think it was accidental.

1676
01:24:38.031 --> 01:24:41.928 line:5%
But I think she was just tired
of putting up a good fight

1677
01:24:41.952 --> 01:24:45.890
and trying to find her way.

1678
01:24:45.914 --> 01:24:47.374
Just wanted some peace.

1679
01:24:49.376 --> 01:24:52.689 line:5%
It crushed me, when I,
when I heard she passed.

1680
01:24:52.713 --> 01:24:57.986
I was so mad, so mad,
but I don't know why.

1681
01:24:58.010 --> 01:24:59.279
Like I do know why,

1682
01:24:59.303 --> 01:25:01.030
because she's a very good friend
of mine.

1683
01:25:01.054 --> 01:25:03.032
And I would guess it was because
she couldn't confide in me

1684
01:25:03.056 --> 01:25:06.869
or tell me what was going
why she's hurting so much.

1685
01:25:06.893 --> 01:25:08.413
You know, I'm pissed.

1686
01:25:08.437 --> 01:25:11.606
No, why didn't somebody
do something earlier?

1687
01:25:13.692 --> 01:25:18.131
Anzaldo:
My my job when Chyna came back
was to help her spiritually

1688
01:25:18.155 --> 01:25:19.924
mind, body, and soul.

1689
01:25:19.948 --> 01:25:23.094
I was her business manager, her
manager, her friend,

1690
01:25:23.118 --> 01:25:24.512
I did it all.

1691
01:25:24.536 --> 01:25:28.224
Her very last text,

1692
01:25:28.248 --> 01:25:33.229
was about me and her mother
and how much she hated us.

1693
01:25:33.253 --> 01:25:37.400 line:5%
I gave him permission
to have her cremated

1694
01:25:37.424 --> 01:25:38.985
and I said take
three quarters of them,

1695
01:25:39.009 --> 01:25:40.987
scatter them
in the Pacific Ocean

1696
01:25:41.011 --> 01:25:44.657
and send a quarter to me.

1697
01:25:44.681 --> 01:25:47.994
But he didn't scatter them all,
he only scared half of them.

1698
01:25:48.018 --> 01:25:56.018
He kept a quarter of the ashes,
which has just infuriated me.

1699
01:25:56.735 --> 01:26:00.006
Anthony put on
this memorial service.

1700
01:26:00.030 --> 01:26:03.825
And so I said,
"I'm not going."

1701
01:26:05.702 --> 01:26:08.681
Potylo: He had this
worst... memorial on Earth.

1702
01:26:08.705 --> 01:26:13.770
He put her ashes
into this bedazzled urn,

1703
01:26:13.794 --> 01:26:15.313
The bitch is in the house.

1704
01:26:15.337 --> 01:26:16.564
[ Cheers and applause ]

1705
01:26:16.588 --> 01:26:18.066
Potylo: In my heart of hearts,

1706
01:26:18.090 --> 01:26:20.860
I thought that not only
would Chyna find a light

1707
01:26:20.884 --> 01:26:23.279
at the end of the tunnel,
but Erik would.

1708
01:26:23.303 --> 01:26:24.572
Angra:
It's really hard to watch,

1709
01:26:24.596 --> 01:26:27.617
but only because
I was like there.

1710
01:26:27.641 --> 01:26:29.911
I think I didn't really want
this to be my film, right?

1711
01:26:29.935 --> 01:26:31.454
You're the guy
who all let Chyna die, right?

1712
01:26:31.478 --> 01:26:32.747
That's what I would say,
I'd be like,

1713
01:26:32.771 --> 01:26:34.123
"Remember the person is dead."

1714
01:26:34.147 --> 01:26:35.917
And now it's gonna to be like,

1715
01:26:35.941 --> 01:26:37.502
"Oh, you're the guy who was
the addict who let Chyna die,

1716
01:26:37.526 --> 01:26:40.296
who's also an addict."
Yep, that's what happened.

1717
01:26:40.320 --> 01:26:41.839
But I didn't let her die.

1718
01:26:41.863 --> 01:26:44.300
I mean, I let her die.
I did.

1719
01:26:44.324 --> 01:26:49.555 line:5%
♪♪

1720
01:26:49.579 --> 01:26:54.769 line:5%
♪♪

1721
01:26:54.793 --> 01:26:56.854 line:5%
I think when she died...

1722
01:26:56.878 --> 01:26:59.107 line:5%
and this is the saddest
part, to me...

1723
01:26:59.131 --> 01:27:05.405
I don't think she had any idea
of the impact

1724
01:27:05.429 --> 01:27:09.992
she had on millions of women
across the globe.

1725
01:27:10.016 --> 01:27:12.912 line:5%
♪♪

1726
01:27:12.936 --> 01:27:16.791
A lot of it had to do with

1727
01:27:16.815 --> 01:27:22.088
the company where you achieved
all that,

1728
01:27:22.112 --> 01:27:27.760
literally convincing you over
the years that you are nothing.

1729
01:27:27.784 --> 01:27:31.973
Announcer:
More than ever, join her,
the Royal Rumble match.

1730
01:27:31.997 --> 01:27:34.142
Russo:
You know that there were
people who were eight,

1731
01:27:34.166 --> 01:27:38.020
10 years old who have
done things in their lives

1732
01:27:38.044 --> 01:27:39.981
that may not have been possible

1733
01:27:40.005 --> 01:27:43.067
without somebody like Joanie
breaking down barriers,

1734
01:27:43.091 --> 01:27:47.155
showing what was out there,
what could be,

1735
01:27:47.179 --> 01:27:48.847
Potylo:
I think she was a warrior.

1736
01:27:51.516 --> 01:27:57.957
I think she just had some
titanic demons she was battling,

1737
01:27:57.981 --> 01:28:00.484
but I don't think
she was a victim.

1738
01:28:03.028 --> 01:28:05.339
Mankind: I don't think you can
ever dismiss

1739
01:28:05.363 --> 01:28:08.509
the importance of family.

1740
01:28:08.533 --> 01:28:12.787 line:5%
I have a support system
that Joanie didn't have.

1741
01:28:15.207 --> 01:28:20.921
Physical strength is often
accompanied by a vulnerability.

1742
01:28:22.756 --> 01:28:26.777
I think, Joanie,
more than anybody that I knew,

1743
01:28:26.801 --> 01:28:32.450
was not prepared
for the emotional pain

1744
01:28:32.474 --> 01:28:34.785
that can be caused, you know,

1745
01:28:34.809 --> 01:28:42.627
when you are an open dreamer
living in the land of Oz,

1746
01:28:42.651 --> 01:28:45.987
searching for acceptance
from total strangers.

1747
01:28:49.491 --> 01:28:56.224
You put your hands on me
for the last time.

1748
01:28:56.248 --> 01:29:00.603
Now, I know, you know,
my time is valuable.

1749
01:29:00.627 --> 01:29:05.107
You ain't adding up to
the price anymore.

1750
01:29:05.131 --> 01:29:08.069
So I'm going to finish
this tonight.

1751
01:29:08.093 --> 01:29:12.114
You and me, one on one,

1752
01:29:12.138 --> 01:29:15.785
I started this story,

1753
01:29:15.809 --> 01:29:17.519
I'm gonna end it.

1754
01:29:23.108 --> 01:29:27.713 line:5%
♪ I'm a tough one ♪

1755
01:29:27.737 --> 01:29:32.718 line:5%
♪ Kept me out of Tokyo ♪

1756
01:29:32.742 --> 01:29:37.098 line:5%
♪ I'm a bad one ♪

1757
01:29:37.122 --> 01:29:45.122 line:5%
♪♪

1758
01:29:45.213 --> 01:29:48.758 line:5%
Yeah.
[ Laughs ]