Proving celebrities are just like us, The Rock's first in-person meeting with Jelly Roll proved to be an unforgettable emotional experience.

In the video, Johnson finds Jelly Roll coming out of his trailer and immediately praises him for his weight loss efforts. "Man, I'm so proud of you," he says as Jelly Roll tells him he's down 200 ...

NEED TO KNOW Jelly Roll and Dwayne Johnson finally met up after almost a decade of long-distance friendship The singer and actor bonded over their Nashville ties and embraced in an Instagram video ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jelly Roll shared a “brotherly hug almost 10 years in the making” making their friendship official. In an Instagram post the duo collaborated on, Johnson ...

That was where Jelly Roll stepped in. Posting a video of the pair meeting and sharing a hug, Johnson wrote in the caption, “Several years ago (roughly 2017) I was going through a very hard thing ...

Hard core. The words moved me so much that I reached out to Jelly. I said you don’t know me and I don’t know you, but this song of yours is helping me through some stuff I’m dealing with.

He added that Jelly Roll is a “great friend of mine” and a “wonderful human being.” “We just happened to be in Columbus together and we just went out and had fun,” James continued.

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach) Jelly Roll, real name Jason DeFord, was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, starting out in hip hop before transitioning fully to country.

Jelly Roll collaborated with several artists on albums throughout the subsequent years. His first solo album, The Big Sal Story, was released in 2012. He has released 10 albums throughout his career.