New Documentary Trailer Highlights Wrestler Chyna’s Final Months: ‘I Went From a Billion Dollar Commodity to on the Street’

In the first trailer for the emotional documentary covering Joanie “Chyna” Laurer’s final months, the groundbreaking WWE star gets candid about fame and the personal demons that led to her shocking 2016 death.

Laurer who died a year ago on Thursday from a mixture of alcohol and prescription drugsat age 45 allowed cameras into her life last year following a return from years living abroad, all lead by documentarian Erik Angra.

(Warning: parts of this trailer are NSFW)

“I’m Chyna, I’m a champion,” she declares, emotional, in the first clips from the project, titled Wrestling with Chyna. She later says in the trailer, “I went from a billion dollar commodity to on the street.”

Addressing the abuse of prescription drugs that ended her life, Chyna tells the cameras, “If I need one valium, I take one valium. If I need three...”

Chyna was an original member of D-Generation X, partnering with other wrestling stars like Triple H and Shawn Michaels. Following her time in the ring, she posed for Playboyand appeared on popular VH1 reality series The Surreal Life, which documented her struggle with alcohol abuse.

Angra who also directed the upcoming film Portrait of Harry tells PEOPLE exclusively that Chyna was “so warm, so loving,” and calls her a “feminist icon.”

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