Hornswoggle shared a humorous, albeit initially embarrassing, story about his first proper interaction with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, where the Hollywood megastar mistook him for a Make-A-Wish recipient.
“So I am in a suit, a legit suit, not my leprechaun outfit, with my gear bag, and I’m gonna meet him behind the curtain as he comes through. In my mind, best friends, I see my buddy Dwayne come back through, oh boy he we go!” Hornswoggle recounted on “Insight.” “I say, ‘Hey man, thank you so much for coming back… Good to meet you. My name is Dylan.’ He extends his arm out, goes, ‘Did you have a good time tonight buddy?’ Taps me on the shoulder, leaves, and I go, Oh no. He doesn’t realize I work here. I was on the show before that.”
The misunderstanding quickly spread: “I told Kofi, thinking he would have my back and support me. He supported me by texting 97 people immediately while driving… Within 30 seconds, I had so many people message me. ‘Rock thought you were a Make-A-Wish kid, huh?'” The Rock himself later confirmed the mistake: “Big Show called him out the next week about this… Rock goes, ‘No, yeah, I did, yeah, I did. I don’t watch the show.’ I approached him about it too. And he said yeah, Big Show already got on me about this.”
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