10 Weirdest WWE Alumni Trainwrecks

4. Chyna

Another ex-WWF star who made her name with the company but found it hard to adjust to life away from the company, the former Joanie Laurer €“ she changed her name to Chyna legally in November 2007 because the WWE had trademarked her wrestling pseudonym and forbidden her to use it €“ has had significant issues with drugs over the years. Since leaving the WWF (as was) in 2001, it€™s difficult to even get a proper consensus on how this happened, let alone on the problems she had at the time. In a relationship with Paul €˜Triple H€™ Levesque for four years (1996 to 2000), almost the entire length of her WWF run, it would appear that the break-up may not have been her idea€ nor did she react well upon finding out that Levesque had moved on and begun to date the boss€™ daughter, Stephanie McMahon. When that situation became untenable, it was the increasingly erratic Laurer who was the disposable factor in the equation. She was taken off WWF television and released several months later. Jim Ross would claim that they€™d simply been unable to come to terms on a new contract, but one suspects that J.R. was simply being kind and refusing to engage in gossip. Since then, Chyna has lurched through the scandal surrounding the release of a sex tape (with subsequent on-off partner Sean €˜X-Pac€™ Waltman), and begun a proper career in pornography. Meanwhile, her personal life has been a litany of recriminatory, barely-coherent online postings and interviews, her persona waxing and waning in stability to the point where it€™s actually been speculated that she may have mental health issues. After one abortive attempt at suicide, she ended up temporarily committed. Very recently, she€™s mentioned that she believes she may have been spiked during reality television appearances, and accused both Levesque of domestic violence and Waltman of sexual assault back in the day (claims that both men have vehemently denied). She€™s now promoting a Kickstarter campaign to put together a documentary on her life and her impact on popular culture. If all of this seems a little vague, it€™s understandable. There€™s very little concrete information available, and with the best will in the world, Chyna seems to be an unreliable narrator of her own life, let alone the lives of others. At one point, Chyna was the biggest and most recognisable female star the industry had ever seen, booked to win the Intercontinental championship and defeating male stars like Jeff Jarrett, Chris Jericho, Val Venis and Kurt Angle. Here€™s hoping she rises above her difficulties, and above her problems with the McMahon family. If the WWE Hall Of Fame is to mean anything concrete at all, she should be a front-runner for inclusion sooner rather than later.