Of course, temptation-wise, it could have been worse. A few weeks back, for instance, he could have gone to Hugh Hefner's birthday party and hung out in his sleepwear with all sorts of half-dressed, highly provacative slatterns, vixens, and harlots, the kind that are only too happy to drop to their knees and bring you to shame. But he didn't. "I was just imagining the front covers of the Enquirer and the Star. 'Rock has Time of His Life with Playboy Bunnies!' I could see the picture of the bunnies with their nipples blocked out and their vaginas. I was like, "Forget it, I'll just sit at home and not get in trouble and drink by myself."
If Dany Were Here In California, outside Stage 44, she would say, as she sometimes does, "It's been challenging, but I don't worry too much. The reason is, our marriage has required him to spend 150 to 200 days a year from me. I don't think L.A. is any different from any other place. Besides, I know the type of individual he is. And for me to function as a normal human being, I can't really think about things any other way."
As it is, however, it's Dwayne sitting in the sun, in a golf cart, outside Stage 44. He's saying, "I think it would be humanly impossible for Dany not to be concerned about me. But she knows the type of guy I am. I don't go clubbing or to strip joints. I mean, I've been to them, but it's not my thing."
Then, for a while, he talks about what it might be like the next time he goes home to Florida. Here, in Los Angeles, he's got his driver, Kevin; his trainer, Mike; his assistant, Hiram; his agents, Marty and Darren; his lawyer, Harold. There, in Miamim is Dany, pregnant.
"You see how things are," he says, "I'm so used to getting things expedited immediately. You are so catered to, Out here, I'm like 'Im going to need this or that supplement, this amount of protein, this amount of food, and they're like, Whatever you need, Rock.' But when I get home, it's just her and me and some family around. I can imagine it now, I'm like, 'OK, I need this done,' and it's like, 'Well alright, go get it yourself, motherfucker,' not that Dany ever swears at me. But it's like, OK, well, here's the keys. You go and drive and get your own dry cleaning.'
"I think about it all the time," he goes on. "I think about the commitment and the sacrifices it's taken for me to get here, and that she's had to maketo get me here. I'm not going to lie, It's extremely difficult. The best thing we can do, and I tell her this, is trust in what we have and trust in fate. I'm a big believer in fate. But it is extremely difficult for me to be out here, with her in Miami, In terms of wanting a family and a relationship, OK. But other than that, we're on separate worlds."
