The wrestling world is still mourning the loss of Joan "Chyna" Laurer, whose body was discovered on April 20.
There was a lot of mystery surrounding the passing of Laurer and her manager recently shed some light on her death. Anthony Anzaldo, who lived near the former WWE star and was making a documentary with her about her life, revealed she suffered an accidental overdose of a prescription sleeping pill and a tranquilizer.
"It's a 98 percent certainty and 2 percent speculation," Anzaldo said, according to the New York Post.
Anzaldo found Laurer's body in her bed last Wednesday and believed she was dead for two or three days. The "Ninth Wonder of the World" had prescriptions for Ambien and a generic version of the anti-anxiety drug Valium to deal with insomnia and other issues, Anzaldo told the publication.
There was a lot of concern for Laurer after she posted a 13-minute video of herself rambling and wandering around her apartment mere days prior to her death. She was lost in the throes of addiction in the past, and her manager believed she was "self-medicating a little bit more than she should have."
Anzaldo, who was making arrangements to have his friend and client appear on the A&E reality series "Intervention" to combat her drug problems, said Laurer was going through a lot emotionally.
The manager said she began seeing a psychiatrist, joined a domestic violence support group due to her past relationship issues and visited the grave of her estranged father.
"A lot was going on in her life emotionally," he said. "But she wasn't depressed; it was just a lot to deal with. She accidentally, over the course of two or three weeks, misused her legally prescribed medication. They're not going to find, like, 60 pills in her stomach."
Prior to her death, the aspiring WWE Hall of Famer had plans to make more adult films, a career path she followed down after her wrestling days.
"We were scheduled to meet this week to discuss [future films]," Steve Hirsch, the founder of Vivid, told Page Six last week. "She was popular and we wanted to work with her again."
Laurer was a trailblazer in the WWE, becoming the only woman to ever win the Intercontinental Championship, which she did on two occasions. She was also a one-time Women's Champion and the first female participant in the famous Royal Rumble match.
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