Facing backlash over his partnership with Oprah for a Hawaiian wildfire survivors fund, Dwayne Johnson tells fans he “could have been better.”
Winfrey and Johnson launched the People's Fund of Maui in August with $5 million, each, from their own bankrolls. In a video posted to Instagram, they asked for donations from others concerned about the plight of the fire-torn island's residents, with Winfrey saying 'We appreciate all the support that you can give. All these people who were calling me and texting me and messaging me and saying, ‘What do I do? What do I do?’ This is what you do.
“And then I got up the next morning, and I saw all of this vitriol, and I was, like, ‘Whoa, what happened here?’” Johnson, however, remained silent on the backlash, but that changed Saturday. In a video that appears to have been shot poolside by Johnson, himself, the wrestler turned action star first gives an update on the payouts, saying, “The thousands and thousands of survivors, the families, they have now, over the past couple of weeks, started to receive their first round of funds.
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