Arts & Entertainment

'The Rock' Gets Emergency Hernia Surgery

Professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson, who lived in Bethlehem, had surgery this week just before his new movie 'Pain and Gain' hits theaters.

Freedom High School graduate Dwayne Johnson, better known as The Rock, underwent emergency abdominal surgery on Monday after being hurt in a wrestling match, according to E!News.

Johnson, 40, wrote on Twitter:

Saw my Dr who had to push my intenseness back thru the tear in my abdomen. Kinda romantic. Surgery is next week. #BringItOn"

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Johnson has a movie coming out this weekend. "Pain and Gain" is an action-comedy "about three bodybuilders in Florida who get tied up in an extortion ring and kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong," according to IMDb.


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