Dwayne Johnson is opening up about navigating a difficult time in his past.
The 53-year-old WWE star turned actor recently looked back on going through a tough separation and divorce with ex-wife Dany Garcia.
While speaking on The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, Dwayne spoke about choosing projects that were lighter and didn’t require much of a challenge as he was going through depression amid their divorce.
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“The truth is — and I can look back on that time with real clarity these days — those days, things were a little cloudy,” he shared. “I loved making those movies. I also think I manifested those because I don’t think I was ready for anything other than easy, light, family films that made me feel good.”
“At that time, I was also going through a separation and a divorce,” Dwayne continued. “When you guys get married, as a few of you may know, you sign up for the long haul, but then it doesn’t always work out like that, and then it rocks you like it rocked me. And we had a baby, and what kind of father was I going to be?”
“Anyway, I feel like at that time I was really going through it. That was another bout of depression,” he added. “I was trying to figure my stuff out, and that was the only thing that I really wanted to do artistically; I didn’t want anything that was going to challenge me to rip my guts out, I wanted stuff that has a happy ending, and so that’s what that was.”
Dwayne and Dany announced their separation in 2007 and their divorce was finalized the following year. They share one child together, Simone Johnson, aka Ava Raine, who was born in 2001.
Around the time of their separation, Dwayne starred in such movies as The Game Plan, Get Smart, Race to Witch Mountain and the animated Planet 51.
Dwayne and Dany are on good terms, and they even work together often. They co-founded Seven Bucks Productions in 2012 and have produced many movies and TV shows together, including Ballers, The Titan Games, Young Rock, Baywatch, Jumanji, Shazam!, Jungle Cruise, Red Notice and many more, including the most recent The Smashing Machine and the upcoming live-action Moana.
If you missed it, it was recently announced that Dwayne will be reprising another role for an upcoming sequel!
Source: justjared.com
