Brooke Hogan spoke out for the first time Monday following the death of her father, WWE legend Hulk Hogan, last Thursday.
In a lengthy message shared on Instagram, Brooke cleared up “convoluting” media narratives regarding her father, with whom she has been estranged since September 2023.
“My dad’s blood runs through my veins. His eyes shine through my children. And our blood has never broken, not even in his final moments,” Brooke wrote.
“… We never had a ‘big fight.’ My father and I never ‘fought.’ It was a series of private phone calls no one will ever hear, know, or understand. My father was confiding in me about issues weighing on his heart, both personal and business. I offered to be a life raft in whatever capacity he needed. I told him he had my support.”
The 37-year-old went on to add that she and her husband, Steven Olesky, moved to Florida to be near Hogan as he grew older, and she went through almost 25 surgeries with her father until “all of a sudden he didn’t want me at surgeries.”
“Everything started getting covered in a thick veil,” Brooke posted. “It was like there was a force field around him that I couldn’t get through.”
Brooke went on to say that she stepped away from her father in the two years prior to his passing to “protect my heart,” but Hogan knew “how deeply, how hard, and how purely I loved him.”
In September 2023, Brooke chose not to attend Hogan’s wedding to his third wife, Sky Daily, and the pair allegedly had their last conversation two weeks before the wedding, with Brooke telling her father she loved him, according to TMZ.
Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, died at 71 on July 24.
He shared Brooke and son Nick, 34, with ex-wife Linda Hogan. The couple was married from 1983 to 2009.
Linda spoke out for the first time since Hulk’s death on Monday, saying she was “melting down” in sadness.
“I’ve been weeping all day . The finality . It’s just shocking . We spent every minute together for so many years . I’ve known him since he was 28 yrs old ! I was 22. I still love him,” Linda wrote on Instagram. “Even tho I never spoke or saw him , Nick did .. and Nick would tell me things and vice versa . Just news about life . I still felt .. although broken .. we still were a family . It’s so hard to know he’s just gone.”
Hogan was married to second wife Jennifer McDaniel from 2010 to 2022.
