{"id":170460,"date":"2025-07-01T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/01\/watch-the-rock-finally-hug-jelly-roll-8-years-after-singers-music-helped-him-through-a-dark-time-3\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:13:45","slug":"watch-the-rock-finally-hug-jelly-roll-8-years-after-singers-music-helped-him-through-a-dark-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/01\/watch-the-rock-finally-hug-jelly-roll-8-years-after-singers-music-helped-him-through-a-dark-time-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Rock Finally Hug Jelly Roll 8 Years After Singer\u2019s Music Helped Him Through a Dark\u00a0Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAfter nearly a decade of friendship built on the power of music, Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson<\/a> and Jelly Roll<\/a> finally got to meet in person.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a sweet video posted by the two stars late Monday (June 30) on Instagram, the movie star wraps the musician in a huge hug backstage on the set of American Idol<\/em>, on which Jelly served as the show\u2019s first-ever artist in residence in the recently wrapped season 23. \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting a decade for this hug, baby!\u201d the singer says, emerging from his trailer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two men then dive into an emotional conversation, with Johnson explaining how he struggled while living as a teenager in Nashville after his family was evicted from their home in Hawaii. Years later, the actor went through another difficult time in 2017, but was able to power through after discovering Jelly\u2019s music. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was struggling,\u201d Johnson wrote in his caption. \u201cMy mental wellness turned into my mental hellness \u2026 Then a song came on through my headphones one morning on a random shuffle playlist. \u2018Only\u2019 from Jelly Roll. The lyrics rocked me. Hard core.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson then reached out to Jelly, spawning a yearslong friendship based on messaging back and forth. As the musician says in the clip, the former pro wrestler beat Jelly\u2019s own mom to congratulating him after he won his first award.<\/p>\n

\n\tFinally getting to meet in person, Johnson gifted Jelly with a special present: a postcard showing where the actor used to live in Nashville. If anyone understands what it\u2019s like to struggle while coming up in Music City, it\u2019s Jelly; the Tennessee-born artist has been open<\/a> about spending time in and out of jail before starting his music career.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is crazy \u2026 this is real old-school Nashville history,\u201d a shocked Jelly says at the end of the video, holding up the postcard to show what Johnson wrote: \u201cKeep doin\u2019 it brother. Proud of you!\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson has previously shared<\/a> how Jelly\u2019s music helped him through a dark period. On The Kelly Clarkson Show <\/em>last November, the superstar said, \u201cThat was one of my bouts with depression \u2026 I was trying to balance a lot, we were pregnant with our second baby \u2026 my older daughter, she was long distance, I was trying to film a movie. There was a lot going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWe got in contact with each other and I told him what it meant to me,\u201d Johnson continued at the time. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know each other, but became really good friends. That\u2019s my boy, and I love that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe video comes as Jelly is currently on tour, balancing solo dates with joint stadium shows with Post Malone. Jelly\u2019s latest album, Beautifully Broken<\/em>, reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd in addition to their shared Nashville history, Jelly and Johnson have something else in common. Both are Billboard <\/em>chart-reaching artists, with The Rock landing on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> in 2016 with Moana<\/em>\u2018s \u201cYou\u2019re Welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch The Rock and Jelly Roll finally meet face to face below.<\/p>\n

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