Before Reaching $800 Million Status, Young Dwayne Johnson Believed Football Was His “Ticket” to Making It Big in Life

Dwayne Johnson is one of the biggest stars on the planet right now. He has tasted lucrative success in every business he has dabbled in. However, things were not rosy all the time. There was a time in his life when he and his family were about to get evicted from their house. Johnson then found a saving grace that he thought would help bring his family out of that tough situation.

Unfortunately, that dream didn’t materialize and he ended up becoming the WWE and Hollywood superstar we know today.

Dwayne Johnson thought that football would help him buy his parents their first house

Dwayne Johnson recently gifted his mother a Cape Cod-style Elcino House in California. This enormous mansion has six bedrooms, five bathrooms, a spa, a pool, and a huge backyard. This cost Johnson a whopping $3.48 million.

But when he was a teenager, Johnson felt really helpless. He felt like he couldn’t do anything to help his mother when they received an eviction notice. That is when he decided to take up wrestling as a profession. The Hollywood star wanted his mother to have a better life and never have to see such a day again. But initially, he fell in love with American Football. Moreover, Johnson thought that this sport could emerge as the saving grace for his family.

On his recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Johnson revealed how he thought football could emerge as the “ticket” to a better life. He said, “Like i thought, football was my ticket. That was the thing thats gonna allow me to buy my parents their first house coz I didn’t live in a house till I was like 27. I was WWE Champion, that was the first f*****g house I lived in. So I thought football was the ticket, and then I realized down the road like ‘I have to finish this chapter in my life’ because I don’t have that skill set to go on”.

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Luckily Johnson took that life-changing decision else we would never get to see Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson laying the SmackDown in the WWE. What do you make of The Rock’s comments on how football would enable him to attain the things he had always wanted for his family? Let us know in the comments section below.

But talking about his mother, Johnson recently did something that brought her to tears on her birthday.

Johnson serenaded his mother with a sweet song on her 75th birthday

Dwayne Johnson is blessed with multiple talents and one of them is singing. He gave a glimpse of this during his ‘Rock Concerts’ in the Attitude Era days. And he used that exact same talent to make his mother’s 75th birthday extra special.

Johnson posted a video on his Instagram of his mother playing the ukulele and him serenading her with a sweet birthday song. He sang, “If i should smile, a sweet surprise, it’s just that you’ve grown up in front of my very eyes. You’ve turned into the prettiest girl i’ve ever seen. Happy birthday, sweet 16… plus 59”.

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He then placed the colorful lei (garland) around his mother’s neck and kissed her on the head. But what are your thoughts on Johnson revealing that he thought that Football was his “ticket” to a better life?