DNA reveals five strangers share same wrestling dad – and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is their half-brother

Rocky Johnson was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame by The Rock (Image: MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock)

5 whole strangers have discovered they’re truly associated – and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is their half-brother.

The 5 half-siblings – Lisa Purves, Paula Parsons, Trevor Edwards, Adrian Bowles and Aaron Fowler – have come collectively after discovering their lineage and discovering out they had been all fathered by late WWE Corridor of Famer Rocky Johnson, who died in 2020.

Chatting with Sports activities Illustrated, the quintet has opened up on their respective journeys by means of life, whereas none of them had a relationship with the legendary wrestler, who had Curtis and Wanda together with his first spouse Una, after which Dwayne with Ata Maivia.

Filmmaker Lisa, 53, first reached out to Rocky when she was 18, and once more a couple of years later earlier than yet another name at 30, however he hung up.

She initially wished to make a documentary about kids whose mother and father had deliberately separated from them, and he or she was finally satisfied to make the movie about herself.

‘I by no means wished to run into Dwayne and have anybody know I used to be his bastard sister,’ she mentioned, admitting anytime she noticed the Hollywood actor she was reminded that he grew up with Rocky as his dad.

Dwayne Johnson hasn’t met his half-siblings (Image: Frazer Harrison/Getty Photographs for for CinemaCon)

Paula, 58, additionally tried to name Rocky – as soon as when she was comparatively younger and later aged 16 – however they by no means met.

She defined: ‘We simply wish to be recognised. We sat on the again burner endlessly. [Rocky] was our dad simply in addition to Dwayne’s.’

In the meantime, Trevor, 55, had all the time been informed he regarded like Dwayne, and in 2017 he finally tracked down Ricky Johnson, who agreed to a DNA check which confirmed Ricky as his uncle.

‘I hugged him and informed him I beloved him, and welcomed him to the household,’ Ricky revealed, and he fashioned related bonds with Adrian Bowles, 52, who discovered him on Fb in 2014, and Paula in 2019.

Like Trevor, Aaron, 52, bore a resemblance to The Rock, and he determined to take a DNA check in 2020, which noticed Adrian and Lisa come up as matches as half-siblings, and so he tracked her down on-line.

Rocky Johnson was a legend within the wrestling world (Image: AP/WWE)

Whereas engaged on the unique concept for her documentary, Lisa had seen Ricky in a photograph on-line and determined to get in contact – and her uncle replied ‘immediately’.

She revealed: ‘He reached out immediately, and we talked and I cried, and he cried. After which he informed me about Paula, Trevor and Adrian. So I reached out to all three of them. This all occurred in in the future. I used to be so excited—what a day!’

Ricky, 68, had no reservations about bringing his nephews and nieces collectively, and he admitted he ‘retains reinforcing’ his love for them.

In the meantime, the 5 half-siblings have additionally made it clear they’re not on the lookout for ‘something’ from Dwayne, and Paula notes they merely ‘wish to be recognised’ as Rocky’s youngsters.

‘Dwayne has nothing to do with the choices that his dad made; he doesn’t even know who we're,’ Adrian added, whereas Lisa mentioned: ‘Dwayne doesn’t owe us something.’

has contacted Dwayne Johnson’s representatives for remark.