Dwayne Johnson is officially a married man.
After two kids and over a decade together, the wrestler-turned-actor tied the knot with
longtime girlfriend Lauren Hashian in a private Hawaiian ceremony on August 18th, 2019.
Here are some strange things about The Rock and Lauren Hashian's relationship.
The Rock's ex-wife
Perhaps the strangest thing about Dwayne Johnson's romance with Lauren Hashian is his relationship
with his ex - but really, it's the very best kind of strange.
According to Newsweek, Johnson met his first wife, Dany Garcia during their studies at
the University of Miami, where the athlete-turned-actor had a football scholarship.
The pair got married in 1997 and had a daughter, Simone.
They split up a decade later.
The same year the divorce was finalized, Johnson asked Garcia to manage his acting career.
He had just endured a series of roles in average-performing movies and was sick of having to lose weight
in order to fit into Hollywood's mold of what an actor should look like.
In 2017, Garcia told Marie Claire:
"We knew that we were moving into that period of our lives, the closing of a personal relationship.
I was already deeply involved with his agents, I was already commenting on scripts.
It was a very natural conversation, where he just said to me, 'I would love for you
to do this full-time.'"
Garcia helped Johnson build an empire.
According to Forbes, The Rock earned $124 million in 2018 - the most that any actor
has earned since the magazine began its Celebrity 100 list two decades ago.
We love to see amicable exes killing it in showbiz!
As Garcia told Good Morning America in 2019:
"Success has nothing to do with conformity."
Not that working with your ex is always a walk in the park.
Johnson told E! News in 2019,
"Through divorce, we still remained friends, but that kind of stuff takes a lot of work."
Love comes quickly
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson gets up super-early to begin his daily workout regimen.
"Four o'clock in the morning I wake up; 4:30-4:45, I'm doing some sort of cardio."
With an absolutely massive stature at 6'5" and 260 pounds, he spent the better part of
his career as an adult slamming down people in the WWE ring.
Not to mention, he's the Scorpion King.
It doesn't get much tougher than that, but Johnson also happens to be a total romantic
in real life.
In a 2012 People interview, the father of three admitted he wasn't sure he'd find love
a second time after divorcing Dany Garcia:
"I was so fortunate to have fallen in love once.
To fall in love again?
That's a hard thing to do twice in the position I'm in."
As he told OWN in 2015:
"I wake up every day so grateful and so thankful that I have someone like that."
How they first met
In 2006, Johnson was busy filming The Game Plan.
The flick garnered abysmal ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but it might be the most important
movie he's ever made - if you can believe it.
"I'm gonna need you to drink up.
You'll be running the 40 and then the 4.5 in no time."
"Ew!"
According to People, Johnson met Lauren Hashian on the set.
At the time, he was still a married man.
Though he definitely hit it off with the singer-songwriter, it doesn't seem like any shadiness went on
behind the scenes.
In fact, ex-wife Dany Garcia claims they both took time to process their breakup together,
telling Marie Claire:
"We spoke every day, and multiple times a day - not only on business, but on what was
happening personally.
We spent over a year looking at the things that didn't work in our marriage, the reasons
why, making sure those elements had been cleared and taken care of, and that we had a real
understanding of respect."
In other words: Johnson was probably just friends with Hashian until it was clear that
his first marriage wasn't going to work.
According to Metro, Johnson and Hashian didn't officially start dating until after he announced
that he'd split from Garcia in 2007.
A whirlwind romance
It's no secret that celebrities in Hollywood like to move fast.
And while Dwayne Johnson wasn't in a rush to tie the knot for a second time, he settled
into domestic bliss with Lauren Hashian not long after they got together.
While speaking with Esquire in 2015, Johnson admitted he'd been living with Hashian for
eight or nine years.
If you do the math, that means the pair moved in together sometime in either 2006 or 2007.
Considering he split from Dany Garcia in 2007, it was probably the latter.
This is hardly shocking considering the emphasis Johnson puts on his home life, and he credits
Hashian for allowing the success he's achieved.
As he told Esquire:
"You gotta get the better half in there.
With all the cool s--- and success that I've been lucky enough to get?
That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid."
As he told Entertainment Tonight in July 2018:
"We're just constantly texting each other, checking in, always Facetiming."
An unconventional coupling
The Rock and Lauren Hashian are a modern couple.
They don't seem to care much about traditional couple milestones, and they did everything
pretty much backwards compared to the 1950s standards of domestic life.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
These two started dating before Johnson was even officially divorced, then they had kids
years before actually getting married.
He welcomed a new baby girl, Jasmine, to his brood in 2015.
Johnson opened up about the touching experience on Instagram at the time:
"I was right there during labor, helping her breathe, every highly intense contraction,
every second of pain, right there watching the actual birth, cutting the cord and wiping
the tears.
Incredible."
After Johnson and Hashian welcomed their second daughter, Tiana Gia in 2018, he posted a similar
skin-to-skin photo, writing in the caption:
"I was raised and surrounded by strong, loving women all my life, but after participating
in baby Tia's delivery, it's hard to express the new level of love, respect and admiration
I have for [Hashian]."
As he told ExtraTV in 2017:
"All girls, I got all girls - I wouldn't have it any other way."
"It's the best."
"It is the greatest thing."
We couldn't be happier for these proud parents.
Congratulations, newlyweds!
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