# @therock on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DTNbvsrD2gl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38570467-therock-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0d37b66e00.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-01-07T13:11:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) — https://gondola.cc/TheRock

## Caption

If you’ve ever loved an addict, then you know how painfully challenging it can be - because all you want them to do is get better. But as we know, addicts don’t get better when we beg them to - they only get better when they hit rock bottom and they realize they HAVE TO. 
Before it’s too late. 

The real life man I played in The Smashing Machine, Mark Kerr, wound up overdosing twice as he knocked on death’s door. God’s grace threw him a lifeline, so he could save himself. And he did. Today he’s a shining example of despite how far one may fall, there’s always hope and action that you can rise again. Sober and stronger. Grateful and humble. 

THANK YOU to our friend, director Bennett Miller for sitting with Benny Safdie bowedtie and I, and moderating this great in-depth talk about our film and Benny’s acumen to create very vulnerable, intense and emotional “lived in” human moments. 

I’ll always be super grateful, that I can talk with our audiences about these tough things we all go through. 

#smashingmachine

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