Dwayne Johnson jokes he gets nervous when wife texts without emojis

Dwayne Johnson has admitted that even the world’s most confident action star gets nervous at home sometimes over the tiniest things.

At the 2026 ABFF Honors in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 16, the 53-year-old actor, who received the Entertainment Icon Award, told People about what still makes him anxious as a father and husband.

“My babies make me nervous. Yeah, my little girls make me nervous,” Johnson said, reflecting on raising daughters Jasmine, 10, and Tiana, 7, whom he shares with singer Lauren Hashian. 

“I just want to make sure that I’m there doing the right things, saying the right things, raising them right with the value system and a structure that they could take on the rest of their life. That makes me nervous.”

But parenting isn’t the only thing that keeps Johnson on edge. The former professional wrestler also joked about getting worried over texts from Hashian, whom he’s been married to since 2019.

“Another thing that makes me nervous is if I get texts from my wife and there’s no emojis. Then I’m like, ‘Oh, s---, what did I do?’ … If I don’t see those emojis, I get nervous,” he laughed.

Johnson and Hashian’s relationship goes back nearly two decades. They met in 2006 on the set of Johnson’s film The Game Plan and began dating in 2007 after his split from ex-wife Danny Garcia. Johnson also shares a 24-year-old daughter, Simone, with Garcia.

“I was so fortunate to have fallen in love once,” Johnson reflected in a 2012 interview. “To fall in love again? That’s a hard thing to do twice in the position I’m in. I’m one lucky son of a b—.”

Hashian, 41, is a Massachusetts native and Emerson College graduate with a degree in public relations and communications. 

Though a singer with releases like 2024’s Speed It Up, she has also worked behind the scenes in entertainment, including roles at Warner Music Group and Paramount Pictures’ music division.

“I was too shy of a kid, and I really wasn’t not shy until … I became a mother,” Hashian told Billboard in December 2021. 

“Then I felt way more confident in my own body and my own feelings. It was like, ‘Well, you can’t be scared of anything anymore, because you don’t want to teach your kids that, right?’ ”

Together, Johnson and Hashian continue to navigate family life with humor, love, and the occasional emoji-related panic.