While he didn’t identify said co-stars in the post, Diesel was reported to be the target of his words. Diesel eventually told Men’s Health in 2021 that Johnson’s character, Hobbs, “was a tough character to embody,” and that his own “approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be.”

Johnson appeared in the Fast and Furious franchise where he entered a famous feud with co-star Vin Diesel. While it might’ve seemed like a publicist stunt, the “candy ass feud” has been ongoing for over five years.

During an appearance on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, John Cena shared his thoughts on his Fast & Furious costars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Vin Diesel's longtime feud.

John Cena offered the tiniest glimmer of insight into the long-running feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson that shook the Fast and Furious franchise. During an interview on the Armchair Expert podcast,

John Cena spoke with Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast about Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel’s feud. The feud between the two stars officially ended when The Rock showed up as Luke Hobbs in the mid-credits scene of last year’s Fast X,

Cena acknowledged that “there’s certainly rumors about” Johnson and Diesel being “a tough pairing.” “Rumors” is a circumspect way of saying they publicly talked a lot of shit and threw a lot of shade at each other over the last decade or so.