-Dwayne Johnson, thank you so much for coming on our show.
I appreciate it so much, man.
You know I love you. How are you doing?
How is the fam? You look good.
-Thank you, man, I'm doing good.
I'm doing as good as can be, right,
like you and like a lot of us trying to do as well
as can be to manage this thing that we are all managing.
The family is good, thank God.
We were shooting in Georgia when this whole thing went down.
So instead of going back to California, I thought,
"You know what? Why risk it?
Why travel?
Let's just stay locked down here.
Bring my mom in."
And we all just got locked down, the dog included.
So we have been down here for months and months.
-We love your mom.
You know, I brought in the new year with your mom.
-Yes.
That is an understatement.
-[ Laughs ] -You did bring in the new year.
So I'm going to tell a little bit of the story.
So I get a text from my mom saying,
"We're here. Jimmy Fallon's here with his wife."
So you guys are eating at a restaurant on New Year's Eve.
I am at home with Lauren.
My mom and Lauren's mom, they go to eat at this restaurant
where you guys were at, you and your lovely wife.
"Jimmy Fallon is here with his wife.
I'm gonna go say hi."
I text back, capital letters, "No!"
-[ Laughs ] -"Leave them alone!
Don't do it!"
She says, "I'm going, that's it."
Because she loves you, man.
And so, she went up
and she introduced herself to you, right?
-Your beautiful mom comes over and she goes, "Hello."
I go, "Hi," and she goes, "I just got to say, I'm a fan."
She goes, "And my son is Dwayne Johnson."
I go, "I love Dwayne, too.
We love him.
I've been friends with him now for --"
She's like, "He loves you, too," blah, blah, blah.
So we just started talking.
I go, "We got to get a picture."
She goes, "Oh, I don't want to bother you."
I go, "Let's get one."
So we get a picture, and it's probably --
I want to say 5:30.
-Yeah, it's early.
-Yeah, in the evening.
Early evening.
And then, I said, "We got to send him a crazier picture.
Hold on." So I went around the restaurant
and I found tiaras and balloons. -[ Laughs ]
-And we had an empty champagne bottle.
And we pretend -- I go, "Let's pretend we're partying.
And don't send this to him until like, you know,
midnight or 1:00 in the morning or something like that."
-[ Laughs ] -So we pretend to be like --
we are like, you know, all this stuff.
I go, "Oh, it will be great."
So then they're just laughing and we're laughing
and having so much fun.
She is like, "You got it --
Jimmy, you've got to see this photo.
It's really funny."
She said, "I already sent it to Dwayne.
I couldn't help myself." I go, "Let me see it."
And when I went over, a waiter went over,
where we would cross and he knocked over
this actual bottle of champagne and ice
that someone else had ordered and it went all over the floor
and everyone is like, "Oh, sorry."
And I go, "No, no, no, get your camera back out.
Get your camera." And I move my tie.
-Perfect. -I move my tie, open my --
-[ Laughs ]
I go, "Send this to him at 2:00 in the morning."
[ Laughter ]
So then, you called and she goes, "Dwayne wants to say hi."
So you and your lovely wife paid for our dinner that night.
And I appreciate that
because that gave us a good New Year's Eve luck.
It was actually great. -Aww.
-We are going to have a great year.
So we love that.
That was very kind of you.
Thank you very much for that.
-I saved them both. It's totally cool.
[ Laughter ] -It was just great, man.
It was really honestly one of the most memorable New Year's
I have had in a long time.
And I loved it.
-That's awesome, man. -So please give your mom --
-Thank you for being so cool and kind to our moms.
I mean, that's the ticket, you know what I mean?
It's like -- we always got -- whenever --
if there is differences, whatever is going on
in the world and moms come around,
you've always got to take care of the mamas.
-Moms come first. How are the girls?
I saw there was one Instagram that it looked like
it was someone's birthday?
Did they have a piñata?
-[ Laughs ] Yes, yes.
It's baby Tia.
She turned two.
And Jasmine, who is four, you know,
she has a swing of Hank Aaron.
It's crazy. And so, we couldn't --
I was trying to hang it, hang the piñata by the tree.
It was a Peppa Pig piñata.
-Yeah. -And she insists, she's like,
"No, you hold it, Daddy, you hold it."
I'm like, "Okay," and I'm just trying to hold it.
My hips are back.
So, bang, by the way.
I can't have kids anymore, but it's okay.
[ Laughter ]
-Surprisingly, no candy came out.
[ Laughter ] -No candy!
Just tears from Daddy.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, my gosh. -But they are doing good, man.
How about you? How's your girls?
-They're all great.
You know, they're in the other room
right now homeschooling so they're not going to run in
and interrupt this interview, hopefully.