Since Dwayne Johnson became one of the most bankable names in Hollywood, he’s been able to give his mother Ata everything she deserves, from a new home to a 75th birthday Samoan balloon salute.
But the WWE legend and Black Adam star remembers a time when he mostly gave her grief.
“My mom has always been there, always my biggest fan, even when I was a punk kid in high school, getting in trouble, getting arrested,” the 51-year-old Johnson tells PEOPLE in this week’s 50th Anniversary issue. “She would always say, ‘I feel like the world will hear from you one day.’ And this is as she’s picking me up from the police station!”
“The love was boundless; the support was boundless,” he adds. “And [still] today she’s my biggest fan.”
Johnson opened up in his 2016 Sexiest Man …