John Cena Explains Emotional Preparation Needed To Fulfill Make-A-Wish Requests

John Cena is famously the most extensive granter of Make-A-Wish requests of all-time, and he recently weighed in on the preparation needed to fulfill Make-A-Wish kids’ dreams. Cena holds the Guinness World Record for most wishes granted through the program, which he has been doing consistently since he began working for WWE.

Cena recently appeared on Netflix’s The Pete Davidson Show, and during the conversation he spoke about the challenges associated with fulfill wishes. You can see the highlights below (per Wrestling Inc):

On the Emotional Preparation Needed:

“When you agree to something like that, you have to understand what you’re agreeing to right? When you agree to do that, you are signing up to be hope. Be the hope. Whatever hill you’re climbing, whatever discomfort you may have, you have to check at the threshold. You have to. If not, turn around. I think Make-A-Wish is a beautiful thing. I also don’t think it’s for everybody because it is very sensitive and it is very emotional.”

On His Drive to Fulfill Make-A-Wish Requests:

“We have a lot of superstars who are built to be the hope and we have some that can’t muster up the courage … the one thing I don’t ever want to do is for some kid to say, ‘You know, the one thing I really want to do is kick it with John Cena,’ and me go in there and not be the hope.”