Nearly 20 years after he divorced his first wife, Dany Garcia, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson opens up about the split.

The former WWE superstar discussed the end of the 16-year relationship while appearing on the Nov. 6 episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.

“When you get married, as a few of you may know, you sign up for the long haul,” he explained. “But then it doesn’t always work out like that. And then it rocks you like it rocked me. And we had a baby, and what kind of father was I going to be?”

Johnson also spoke about how the divorce impacted his mental health. “At that time, I was really going through it,” he recalled. “That was another bout of depression.”

The divorce made the wrestler-turned-actor reflect on the kinds of roles he wanted to take on. He decided

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