During an interview with HollywoodReport.com, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shared that he learned about the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden before then-U.S. President Barack Obama made the official public announcement in 2011.

Johnson recalled how the information reached him, explaining, “I’ve got a friend of a friend who gave me a call. The call was like, ‘Hey, this thing happened.’ And I said, ‘Okay, wonderful news.’ I was told on the call that the president at that time [Barack Obama] was going to make his speech in 20 minutes or whatever. I said, ‘Okay, great.’ So 20 minutes go by, and at about the 25th minute, I tweet this. Then I get a second call, and the call is, ‘Yeah, the president didn’t go on yet.’ And I went, ‘Oh shit.’”

On May 1, 2011, before the news broke publicly, The Rock posted a message on Twitter that immediately drew attention:

“Just got word that will shock the world – Land of the free…home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!”

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