Logan Paul Gets Choked Up Talking About The Rift He Created With The Rock

Like many social media stars who were thrust into unimaginable fame at a young age, Logan Paul has made his share of mistakes – so of them more egregious than others.

Unlike many of those same social media stars, Logan Paul appears to have grown up, matured, changed his ways, and taken some responsibility for his actions.

Case in point: In 2017, Paul was heavily criticized for filming a video of himself near recently deceased corpse of a man who hung himself in what is known as the “suicide forest” in Japan.

It was a mistake that Logan Paul regrets and this week he emotionally explained to WWE star John Cena how it cost him a relationship with his wrestling hero: The Rock.

Not that he wanted to really talk about it. When his co-host Mike Majlak alluded to their being beef between Logan and Dwayne Johnson, Paul shot daggers at him for bringing it up. Then his eyes welled up and after some cajoling by Cena he shared his story.

“You and Dwayne, I think were the people I definitely looked up to a lot when I was trying to figure out the blueprint for my career that didn’t exist,” Paul told Cena. “Dwayne especially, my idol. My hero and to the highest degree I wanted to be like Dwayne.”

Hard to understand why he would want that. Oh yeah, because he’s pretty freaking great. But I digress…

“Eventually, in the same way I met you, I met Dwayne. He was just as cool in person as I thought he was on TV. He’s awesome,” Logan Paul reaffirmed.

“We made content together, went mega-viral with 70 million views and 50 million views, and linked up a couple of times. Visited him on the set of Ballers. I would have considered us acquaintances, at least. He was just great, and then Japan happened.

“I could go into so much depth about my remorse and the place I was in and the faults I made at that time of my life. I had to really re-wire my brain and backtrack and ask myself how I let that happen and what went wrong in my life where I thought that was okay.

“In that process, I did a lot of damage. It wasn’t something that was on the forefront of my mind, and I’ve had to do a tremendous amount of therapy and figure out what in my life that was so traumatic or didn’t happen that I did that.

“DJ was one of the people I hurt because of his mother’s experience. That’s his experience to tell, I’m not going to share.

“I hurt him so much that he basically wanted nothing to do with me, and rightfully so, you know? I let down my hero. And he requested that I remove all the content we’ve ever done together and basically kicked me to the curb. I would have done the same thing. Guy in his position, doesn’t want to be affiliated with a person who did something as reprehensible as that.

“And I remember being such a low moment because I knew I let myself down. I knew I let my fans down. I knew I let my family down. but my idol too?

“Man, it just stung so bad.”

On the plus side for Logan Paul, he wasn’t alone in making The Rock mad at him. John Cena also did something once that he too regrets that is related to The Rock.

Take a look and listen to that story below…