According Sports Illustratedprofessional wrestler turned Hollywood movie star Dwayne The Rock Johnson has two sisters and three brothers added to his family tree. A DNA test reveals that Lisa Purves, Paula Parsons, Trevor Edwards, Adrian Bowles and Aaron Fowler are also the children of The Rock’s late father, Rocky Johnson. The five adult children reunited but were never in contact with their WWE Hall of Famer father who died in 2020. As Rocky made little effort to connect with his children, a young Dwayne n never had the opportunity to be close to him. his half-siblings.
Born Wayde Bowles, the wrestler began performing under the stage name Rocky Johnson and has been dubbed “the best wrestler of the last 40 years when it comes to hitting a dropkick streak”. As Sports Illustrated Breaking the news, Lisa Purves, 53, told the publication that she contacted her father several times, once when she was 18, and he hung up. She tried again a few years later and left a message. He did not return his call. Before Purves was 30, she called her father again on the phone and told him who she was and once again he hung up. Purves says she went so far as to ask other wrestlers to speak to Rocky on her behalf, but nothing ever came of it, adding:
“I was really embarrassed that my dad didn’t want me.”
Forging a path of healing and reconciliation in their own way
Lisa Purves is currently working on a film that documents the small reunion shared between her and most of her new siblings at an Airbnb in Toronto in 2018. Just call me Lisa, the working title of the documentary is still in production. Asked about their connection to their superstar brother The Rock,
“Dwayne owes us nothing,” Lisa said. “We just want to be recognized,” said Paula, 58. “We sat on the back burner forever. [Rocky] was our father as well as Dwayne’s.
A social media post reads:
“People were telling Trevor and Aaron, two complete strangers, that they looked like a world famous wrestler. Through family stories, Facebook sleuths and DNA, they found their dad, Rocky Johnson – and they also found a new family.
Each of The Rock’s half-siblings has made it clear that it’s not about their famous sibling, who described his own relationship with Rocky as “incredibly complicated.”
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