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Dwayne Johnson Thanks Mom for Inspiring Him to Change His Troubled Life


Dwayne Johnson thanked this mother, Ata Johnson, for inspiring him to change from being a 'punk kid' who was constantly getting arrested

“Even when I was a punk kid in high school, getting in trouble, getting arrested, she’d say, ‘I feel like the world will hear from you one day.’ This is as she’s picking me up from the police station! Dwayne Johnson is riding high as one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, but he may eventually turn his eye toward politics. Sink or swim, it’s the Garden, it’s New York, and if you could pull this off, we feel like you have a shot, and we have a shot.’ So that night I went out, and by the end of the match, there were 22,000 people all chanting my name.

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