John Cena says WWE fans pushed him into a life-changing move that benefitted his in-ring and on-screen careers.
Cena recently spoke with PEOPLE about losing his hair, something fans had no problem taunting him for. He says fans pushed him into other options to fight hair loss, and now he has a regular routine that he wishes he did sooner.
“As I was trying to hide my hair loss, the audience was bringing it to light,” Cena told PEOPLE.
“I saw their signs that said ‘The bald John Cena,’” he says. “They pushed me into going to see what my options were. I now have a routine: red-light therapy, minoxidil, vitamins, shampoo, conditioner. And I also got a hair transplant last November.
John Cena wishes he got a hair transplant sooner
“I hate the fact that if there wasn’t so much shame around it, I’d have gotten it done 10 years ago. I thought I was alone, but seven or eight out of 10 [men] suffer from thinning or baldness.”
Cena said he loves his new look, but also said there’s no shame in it, either.
“If somebody’s going to sweat me for that, I don’t think there’s any shame in that,” he says. “It completely changed the course of my life.”
John Cena said that his new hair gave him more range as an actor, opening him up to more work as an actor. “A different hairstyle can identify a part that can get me more work, do the thing I love to do,” Cena said.
Cena previously said he initially got into making movies for the wrong reason. He told fans during a recent appearance at Fan Expo in Denver, Colorado, that he started acting to bring more business to WWE. Now, he realizes it was the wrong choice.
“I was run out of the movie business in 2009 for doing bad movies where I wasn’t present,” he told PEOPLE. “I thought that just because I wore a golden leather belt on Monday and Friday, they’d come see whatever I’m doing. It’s not true.”
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