Five total strangers have discovered through DNA testing that they’re related and that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is their half-brother.
The five half-siblings - Lisa Purves, Paula Parsons, Trevor Edwards, Adrian Bowles, and Aaron Fowler - have come together after learning about their heritage and finding out they were all children of the late WWE Hall of Famer Rocky Johnson.
The quintet spoke with Sports Illustrated and opened up on their separate life journeys, and growing up without a relationship with their biological father who died in 2020.
The legendary wrestler had Curtis and Wanda with his first wife Una Sparks, before marrying Ata Maivia, the daughter of High Chief Peter Maivia, who gave birth to Dwayne.
Filmmaker Lisa, 53, disclosed to the publication that she reached out to Rocky when she was 18 years old, but he shunned her. She tried reaching out to him a few years later at the age of 30, but he ignored her once again.
Lisa explained that she initially wanted to make a documentary about children whose parents had intentionally disconnected from them, but she was eventually convinced to make the film about her own story.
"I started doing research on what happens when you abandon a child, how it affects their life," she says. "And I’m like: This is exactly me. Problems with self-esteem… All the s*** that it lists is me," she said.
Lisa admitted that every time she saw the 50-year-old Hollywood star, it reminded her that he grew up with Rocky as his dad. She said: "I never wanted to run into Dwayne and have anyone know I was his bastard sister."
Paula, 58, revealed that she never met her dad and also tried contacting him at both a relatively young age and later at 16 years old. She said: "We just want to be recognized. We sat on the back burner forever. [Rocky] was our dad just as well as Dwayne’s."
However, Trevor, 55, disclosed that he tracked down Rocky's brother, Ricky Johnson, for a DNA test, which later revealed that Trevor was his nephew.
Per Metro, Ricky shared his thoughts after the DNA results and said: "I hugged [Trevor] and told him I loved him and welcomed him to the family."
Lisa shared that, during the making of her documentary, she reached out to Ricky after seeing a photo of him online. She recalled that he responded "right away" and then the pair "talked and cried". Ricky then told Lisa about Paula, Trevor, and Adrian which encouraged her to contact them on social media straight away.
Aaron, 52, was told he looked like The Rock, so he decided to take a DNA test in 2020. After the results, he saw Adrian and Lisa come up as matches as half-siblings which prompted him to track Lisa down online.
The five half-siblings have declared that despite the DNA matches, they’re not looking for "anything" from Dwayne. Paula explained that they simply "want to be recognized" as Rocky’s children.
"Dwayne has nothing to do with the decisions that his dad made; he doesn’t even know who we are," Adrian added, while Lisa said: "Dwayne doesn’t owe us anything."