Dwayne Johnson spoke about the incident during his appearance on the podcast Awards Chatter. The actor from “The Scorpion King” commented at the time on his Twitter profile about the death of the Al-Qaeda founder.
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The Rock said he received a phone call from a “friend of a friend” informing him about Osama bin Laden’s death.
“The call was something like: ‘Hey, this happened.’ And I said, ‘Okay, great news.’ I was told on the call that the president at the time [Barack Obama] would give his speech in about 20 minutes or so,” Dwayne Johnson said.
On his Twitter profile, now X, the “Moana” actor wrote: “Just got word that will shock the world. Land of the free… home of the brave. SO PROUD TO BE AMERICAN!”
He says he waited twenty minutes before posting anything about bin Laden’s death, believing that Barack Obama, then president, had already made a statement about the event.
“I said, ‘Okay, great.’ Then twenty minutes passed, and around the twenty-fifth minute, I posted the tweet. After that, I got a second call, and the person said: ‘Uh… the president hasn’t gone on air yet.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, sh…’,” he recalled.
On the night of May 1, 2011, the same night Dwayne Johnson tweeted, Barack Obama gave a televised address directly from the White House, announcing that bin Laden had been killed.
The following year, The Rock told Moviefone about his source who passed him the information. He did not reveal who the “friend of a friend” was.
“If I tell you, I won’t need to ‘kill’ you, but I’ll have to decapitate you. No, I have my sources,” he joked at the time.
“I have friends in high and low places. It was a very interesting day… The people who were there were proud to tell me,” Dwayne Johnson added.
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