It wasn’t immediately obvious when Dwayne Johnson joined Kelly Clarkson onstage to sing Loretta Lynn’s 1967 Һit “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” Monday, but here’s the trutҺ: It was something of a lifelong dream for the former wrestler.

See, before Johnson made wrestling and acting his career, he was an aspiring country music singer — though certainly not a traditional-looking one, as he told Clarkson during his interview on her show.

“You guys will find this surprising,” Johnson began.

“I lived in Nashville a couple of times (when I was younger),” he explained. “One time when I was 15 and … hаnging out in bars, which I shouldn’t have been doing, but I was already like 6’4″, 220 (pounds) with a mustache, my dream was I was going to be a country singer.”

Johnson, 50, explained that he would “walk the streets” while singing, hoping to be discovered. “But it didn’t happen,” he added.

Fortunately, he seems to have bounced back, with a wrestling career as “The Rock” and a landing roles in films like “Moana” and “Jungle Cruise” and TV shows like “Young Rock.”