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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson<\/a> is speaking out about the last time he talked to his late father, Rocky Johnson, with whom he had a deeply complicated relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old actor said they fought over his father\u2019s memoir. Johnson said Rocky\u2019s book contained quotes, ostensibly written by him, that gave his dad credit for his success.<\/p>\n

“It hurts,” he told The New York Times Magazine <\/a>in an in-depth interview published Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnson’s father, a former pro wrestler himself, had just published “Soulman: The Rocky Johnson Story,” at the time, and Johnson said he was shocked to read that he had written the foreward for the book \u2013 even though he hadn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“It just completely crossed the line,” Johnson said. “It goes back to the attention, the narcissism.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson for additional comment.<\/p>\n

In fact, Johnson said their 2019 blowup was the biggest fight he\u2019d had with his father since 25 years earlier, when he decided he wanted to follow in his dad’s pro wrestling footsteps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rocky Johnson told his son at the time: “What do you think you possibly have to offer?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s family moved often when he was a kid, and his dad, frequently on the road as a wrestler, often didn\u2019t have time for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His parents\u2019 relationship was also volatile to the point where they sometimes lived apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Johnson said that was kind of a relief from the fighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also attributed the most painful moment in his life to his father.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When he was 15, he said he and his mother were evicted from their apartment in Hawaii. His mom asked his dad to let Dwayne stay with him in Tennessee, where he was living at the time, so she could settle things in Hawaii, then drive out and join the two of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It hurt my heart,” Johnson said of seeing his mom\u2019s reaction to the eviction notice left on their door. But he said his father told her, “No problem, I\u2019ve got an apartment.”<\/p>\n

However, when Johnson arrived in Nashville, his father was nowhere to be found. Instead, he was greeted by a man named Bob who drove him to a motel, introduced him to another man named Bruno \u2013 who, incidentally, Johnson is still friends with \u2013 and told him he\u2019d be living there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw<\/a>” actor said he realized instantly that his dad was living with another woman, and when his mother arrived after driving from San Francisco in a Ford Thunderbird purchased by her husband, she found out too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My heart hurts when I think about that,” Johnson said. “The pain that my mom was driving with: Like \u2018What is my life now? That whole <\/i>time?\u2019”<\/p>\n

When she arrived at the motel, and was met by Bruno and Rocky, who began talking in circles, she knew.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“That was it. Within five minutes it all just \u2026 It wasn\u2019t even an explosion. It was just a \u2013 collapse,” Johnson explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said he learned to think of himself as the main man in his mother\u2019s life, and he was the one who pulled her back from possible tragedy when she walked straight into freeway traffic after that drive to Nashville.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The look on her face, he said, still haunts him. She was gone.<\/p>\n

The rest of his father\u2019s 2019 memoir, Johnson said, was filled with fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Growing up with my dad, I know the truth to all these stories, and they\u2019re not in this book. If the truth is blue, the story is red,” he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eventually, Johnson got it pulled from bookstore shelves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Johnson learned his father had died as he was driving to set on the first day of filming “Red Notice” in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He thought at first maybe he should go home and be with his family, but then he remembered one of his father\u2019s many mantras that, no matter what, the “show must go on.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

So he went to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was at his dad\u2019s funeral that he said he realized his dad had been a great friend to so many others, including wrestlers like Hulk Hogan<\/a> and Triple H.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Wildly enough, my old man was just this amazing friend,” he said. “Complicated husband. Complicated dad. But an awesome friend to everyone else.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked if he thought he was more his father\u2019s friend than his son, Johnson said no.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“He wasn\u2019t my friend either,” he answered. “I wish. I think that my mom was my friend.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnson now has three children of his own: daughters, Simone, 24; Jasmine, 9; and Tiana, 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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