The acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series “Oprah’s Master Class” featuring an unprecedented first-person insight into the brilliant minds of entertainers we love, respect and admire, will feature one of the biggest box office draws of all-time, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, tonight, November 15 at 8p ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
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The Ballers star explained that the depression stemmed from being passed over by the NFL and then cut from his team – the Calgary Stampeders – in the Canadian Football League at the age of 23.
“Among the very critical things that you might realise is which you’re not by yourself”, he says.
“When I held her when she was born, I held her in these two hands and I said to her, ‘I will always, always take care of you”. It is the worst mistake you will ever make. You’re ruining your career’. “I said, ‘Maybe I’ll be no good, but I feel like, in my heart, I have to do this'”.
Obviously it was the best decision Johnson ever made, as he is an extremely successful actor, landing roles amongst a few of Hollywood’s finest!
You’ve just gotta remember: Hold on to that fundamental quality of faith.
In the preview clip above, Johnson relates how he arrived at the decision to go from football to wrestling, which ultimately led to him becoming The Rock we all know today.
He asked his father to train him “and it wound up being one of the greatest chapters in my life”.
The Rock also shared an instance that emotionally moved him.
His parents were in an argument while driving when his father pulled the auto over on the side of the road.
She had a glazed look over her eyes that I had never seen before. “And she walks right into the middle of I-65 and continues to walk down into incoming traffic”.
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Johnson got out of the vehicle he was driving and grabbed his mother. Oprah’s Master Class airs Sunday night at 8 p.m. EST on OWN.
