'She was enjoying it to an extent too but ultimately I think it was pretty overwhelming for her. 'It was difficult for her to come from Tokyo where she lived a very peaceful life to now being a public figure again. 'She was going through a difficult time since she got back to the US with the way she had to deal with media and fame again,' he explained. The sex tape was released and sold over 100,000 copies - although Waltman has always claimed the tape was consensual and the pair shared in the profits.Ĭhyna also accused another ex wrestler Triple H of hitting her - a claim he has always denied.Īfter working for various wrestling franchises, appearing in Playboy and starring in several pornographic movies, Chyna moved to Tokyo, Japan to teach English where she lived for three years until her return to the US in 2015.Īngra claims the star had struggled to settle back into life in the limelight in the US - and was left dealing with many 'demons' from her past - including the strained relationships with her parents and sisters, who she didn't speak to for most of her adult life.Īlthough he admitted Chyna was taking many prescription drugs, Angra did not want to comment on whether Chyna was abusing illegal drugs in the past year of her life. Later she would accuse her ex-boyfriend fellow wrestler Sean Waltman of raping her after plying with drugs and filming a sex tape. She talked openly about having drug and alcohol problems and was hospitalized in 2010 after overdosing on sleeping tablets.ĭuring her college years she claimed she was raped by two football players at party. 'Later on it looked like a black eye but the first day it just looked like she fell and knowing the substance she was on I wouldn't be surprised if she would fall and not remember it.Ĭhyna, who stormed on to the wrestling scene in 1997, had lead a troubled life away from her successful WWE career. 'It doesn't look like somebody hit her because your skin wouldn't drag that way. 'From the picture you can see a kind of friction rash on her face. 'I remember when that happened, she sent me a photo, and honestly I just think she fell,' he said. Neighbors described seeing Chyna walking around with a black eye in the week prior to her death - but Angra does not believe this was a result of her being attacked or in an abusive relationship. 'I know she had been drinking and I think she was upset with things that were going on.' 'It was a combination of things from her past and current troubles. 'She just had a lot to say and was very upset. 'We did our final interview then - she was really upset about a few things and wasn't in a good place emotionally so I went over there and we filmed her for hours,' he recalled. All her prescriptions were for emotional problems not physical.'Īngra, 30, from Los Angeles, last saw Chyna about a week ago when she called him crying and asked him to go round to see her. 'I don't know about her heart or anything but on the outside she looked very healthy. 'Physically she was very healthy - she worked out every day and did yoga. 'One was her trying to do the scene from Psycho and stuff like that. 'She was sending out all these videos - that she thought were funny videos but in retrospect they are quite sad. 'She seemed upbeat - certainly not suicidal - she was making a lot of plans for the future. 'She left me a voicemail on Sunday night actually - it was a five-minute-long voicemail and she was saying she actually felt good and she wanted to see a doctor next week and get her prescriptions. 'I knew she was struggling and had lots of things troubling her but I wouldn't describe her as suicidal and we talked on the phone almost every day. 'But I know we wanted to help her and we were trying to - but I guess we just weren't able to help her in time. 'She was having a tough time the past couple of weeks and we all knew that and she was using more of her prescriptions than she should have been or mixing them up - I can't say for sure exactly what she was doing,' Angra told Daily Mail Online. Plan: Documentary maker Erik Angra tells Daily Mail Online Chyna was looking forward to the future and was not suicidal but had been taking prescription drugsĪngra, who has spent the past year filming the life of the former WWE fighter for a documentary called the 'Reconstruction of Chyna' said he and other friends were concerned about Chyna but did not believe she was suicidal.
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