Steve Austin Says WWE HOF Induction Is Not Enough For Chyna, Talks Meeting Chyna For The First Time

Source: The Steve Austin Show

Recently on The Steve Austin Show, ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin discussed the untimely passing of Joanie ‘Chyna’ Laurer.

According to Austin, he received the news of Chyna’s demise before most of the world, as the person who discovered Chyna’s body, Anthony Anzaldo, called Austin in the early evening on April 20, 2016 to share the news as Austin was recovering from surgery. That morning, Austin had rotator cuff surgery at Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic.

“I wake up [after surgery]. I got the pain block going. I don’t really need any pain pills and I’m clear-headed now. I can remember all of the events that are happening and I’m wide awake. I start going through my regular checklist of things to do, making phone calls, telling everybody, well, my family, my loved ones, that my surgery was fine and I’m fine. And then, so I’m just kind of chilling out, letting all the affects of all the drugs that I’ve been given to keep me asleep wear off and I get a phone call. Well, I miss the phone call, but then I get a text message: ‘hey man, call me ASAP’. And so, I call this guy ASAP and he proceeded to tell me that Chyna had indeed passed away and that he had discovered her there in her apartment in Redondo Beach [California]. And this was, man, in the evening, but this was hours and hours before this broke on a nationwide scene or worldwide scene and I was one of the first people to know. And when the guy called me, this hit me so hard and I couldn’t believe it. I said to him three times, I said, ‘dude,’ I said, ‘you’re shooting with me? Chyna’s dead?’ And he said, ‘Steve, I’m shooting with you.’ He speaks the language. I said, ‘dude, this is not a rib, right?’ because you just don’t rib like that. It would be a morbid rib. But there was just no way, and I knew this guy was a very close acquaintance of Chyna’s, so I knew it was a shoot, but I could not believe it,” Austin recalled.

“It was like somebody hit me in the head with a baseball bat. I’m coming out of this anesthesia. I’m pretty clear-headed. And then, someone calls me and just tells me that someone that I care deeply about and had many, many good times with was gone. And she was only, I guess, 46 …

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