The Rock says he knew about Osama Bin Laden’s death before it was announced by Barack Obama

While speaking to HollywoodReporter.com, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson revealed that he learned about the death of Al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden in 2011 before United States President Barack Obama made the official announcement. Here is what Rock said…

“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 1st 2011, Rock wrote the following message via Twitter shortly before the news was announced…

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