Dwayne Johnson credits females in his life for shaping him
An only child, Dwayne Johnson was raised primarily by his mother Ata Johnson. While he also had a relationship with his father, the late pro-wrestler Rocky Johnson, the actor credits his mother and grandmother for raising him.
Dwayne Johnson’s two younger daughters, Jasmine and Tiana, love to play a game where they make him close his eyes. They go into the kitchen and dump ingredients into a bowl.
“They’re getting flour and water and I can hear, ‘Where’s the oil?’ and I know what’s coming,” said Johnson. He squints his eyes to peek and sees them approaching. “I’m like, ‘OK, I’m not going to look.’ and then bam! It’s dumped over my head.”
Johnson’s playful submission with his girls is a contrast to the persona introduced in his former career as a WWE superstar and now as a successful actor known for films such as The Scorpion King, The Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and Jungle Cruise. Despite his 6-foot-5-inch height and muscled physique, Johnson isn’t afraid to show vulnerability and share the lessons he’s learned.
Some of those life lessons are part of the NBC series Young Rock, debuting its second season Tuesday. The show follows a younger Johnson through important moments in his childhood, teen years and in college. Johnson appears in each episode, setting up the stories in an interview from the 2032 presidential campaign trail (a wink to consistent rumors he may one day run for president of the United States).
In his personal life, Johnson is quick to admit that the females run the show. “I am blessed with being surrounded by all estrogen,” said Johnson recently over Zoom from his home in Hawaii. “I’m the only dude in the house, me and the dog.”
An only child, Johnson was raised primarily by his mother Ata Johnson. While he also had a relationship with his father, the late pro-wrestler Rocky Johnson, the actor credits his mother and grandmother for raising him, saying they “had a very clear agenda on how to raise me and what lessons I should be taught and what kind of integrity I should have as a little boy growing up.”
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“My grandmother, my mom. My first wife, Dany Garcia, who is now a long-time business partner, my wife today, Lauren, my three daughters continue to influence and teach me daily. Even my little ones. I have a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old, and when you’re open and amenable, you’d be surprised as a man, just how much your daughters will teach you,″ he said.
Johnson often says he and his daughter Simone, now 20, “grew up together.”
