Jelly Roll was Dwayne Johnson’s rock long prior to the artist was a successful recording musician.
While showing up on The Kelly Clarkson Show Friday (Nov. 15), The Rock opened regarding uncovering the “Need a Favor” vocalist’s songs years prior, throughout what the star called a harsh spot in his life. “I was going through a hard time at that time — he didn’t even know it, because we didn’t know each other,” Johnson remembered.
“That was one of my bouts with depression, and I was struggling, and I was really wobbly,” he proceeded. “I was trying to balance a lot, we were pregnant with our second baby … my older daughter, she was long distance, I was trying to film a movie. There was a lot going on.”
Johnson — that shares little girl Simone with his ex-wife, manufacturer Dany Garcia, and little girls Jasmine and Tiana with artist Lauren Hashian, whom he wed in 2019 — took place to review out loud a verse of Jelly’s 2017 track “Only,” which the Moana celebrity states specifically influenced him at the time.
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“What if the darkness inside of me has finally taken my soul?/ What if the angels in heaven were sent to take me home?” Johnson estimated. “Would they fight through the demons that I have in my life?/ Lord, I’m believing eventually see the light.”
“That really moved me and touched me,” The Rock ended. “We got in contact with each other and I told him what it meant to me. We didn’t know each other but became really good friends. That’s my boy, and I love that guy.”
As host Clarkson explained, the exchange happened well prior to Jelly struck his business advancement in late 2022 with “Son of a Sinner” — which got to No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 — and secured in his super star standing with 2023’s Whitsitt Chapel. The Tennessee indigenous has actually considering that scored his initial No. 1 cd on the Billboard 200 with October’s Beautifully Broken, and he’s fresh off of capturing 2 brand-new Grammy elections: finest nation track and finest nation solo efficiency for “I Am Not Okay.”
Jelly formerly opened on the Kelly Clarkson Show regarding his side of the tale of his relationship with Johnson, a bit of which the talk program played throughout the Jumanji star’s episode. “He was a fan when I wasn’t worth being a fan of,” the artist states of The Rock in the clip. “By him being a fan, I was like, ‘If one of the greatest personalities of this generation — one of the greatest actors and entertainers — if he sees something in this music, maybe I’m on to something.’”
Watch Johnson spurt regarding Jelly listed below.
