# RIP former WWE wrestler Chyna. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 21, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795 "2016-04-21T07:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/1 "2016-04-21T07:46:21Z")
[She was only 45](http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/15285463/1990s-wwe-wrestling-star-chyna-dies-age-45-california), damn. Overdose, I’m guessing. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/2 "2016-04-21T08:00:20Z")
TMZ reports it as a “possible overdose.” And she has had addiction issues in the past, so it’s a likely conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/3 "2016-04-21T13:51:34Z")
Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/4 "2016-04-21T14:17:31Z")
Always sad to see these spirals to early death. Goodbye, Joanie. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/5 "2016-04-21T14:38:13Z")
She was called the Ninth Wonder of the World. She also made really bad choices in men, and that’s the reason for her death spiral. Poor dear, the pain is over now. Those guys were scum, you deserved better. Eat shit HHH. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/6 "2016-04-21T15:03:55Z")
She is the one who Triple H kicked aside for the bosses’s daughter right? Or did they not date in real life? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/7 "2016-04-21T15:19:23Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > She is the one who Triple H kicked aside for the bosses’s daughter right? Or did they not date in real life? Yup, it was for real. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/8 "2016-04-21T15:31:14Z")
Sad. Chyna was my favorite of the Attitude Era. I always hoped that she’d beat her demons, and find peace. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-former-wwe-wrestler-chyna/752795/9 "2016-04-21T15:32:56Z")
Well, last year(?) she went on a tear, badmouthing them and engaging in other bad behavior, then pulled the bit with the video crew at WWE HQ and started claiming she was trying to patch things up and they were ignoring her. Was hard to feel sorry for someone constantly engaged in such self-destructive behavior. Obviously she needed help, and we don’t know what was going on with that side of her life, but whatever help she was getting obviously wasn’t enough. As I learned myself, when all you do is tear yourself apart trying to get rid of the parts of yourself you don’t like, all you succeed in doing is tearing yourself apart. And it can take years to put yourself back together, assuming you decide at some point to stop doing it and put yourself back together. If all you do is keep tearing, eventually you’re going to die.