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Brooke Hogan Admits Being Estranged From Dad Hulk Before His Death ‘Hurt’: ‘He Just Wasn’t There’
Brooke Hogan opens up about her painful estrangement from Hulk Hogan before his death, revealing he never met her twins and she was notified of his passing by text.
Blond beauty Brooke Hogan is opening up about her devastating estrangement from her WWE champ father, Hulk Hogan, during the years before his fatal heart attack last July.
The family ties were so fractured that the Hulkster never even met the Brooke Knows Best star’s twins with retired hockey player husband Steven Oleksy — son Oliver Andrew and daughter Molly Gene, who were just 6 months old when their famous grandfather passed away at age 71, according to insiders.
The reality TV gal, 37, claims she didn’t speak to her dad — whose real name was Terry Bollea — during the last two years of his life after she expressed reservations about some of the folks he was associating with and says he severed their once close bond.
“He said, ‘You go this way, I go that way,’” Brooke recalled to Us Weekly. “That hurt.”
While she never named names, at the time the controversial ring master was wed to Sky Daily, 47, his third wife, who became his widow.
“I could see what was happening with him with the people around him. I could also see his potential and see how life could be. And he just wasn’t there,” the Rock the Block cast member lamented to the magazine. “You feel so powerless.”
Not even the birth of Molly and Oliver — Hulk’s first and only grandchildren — was enough to spur a reunion.
“It’s such a tangled web,” she added. “It’s dangerous talking about, criticizing certain people. You just kind of have to shut up and let people make their own decisions.”
Steve claimed to People that he and Brooke — who met in Michigan — had uprooted their lives and moved to Florida to be closer to the Rocky III bruiser as he aged.
But sources say Brooke was coldly notified by text that her dad had died at a Clearwater hospital.
“I’m glad he’s out of pain,” the “Wanna Go Back” singer continued to Us Weekly of her father, who endured 25 surgeries over his last 10 years. “I know he was in a lot of pain.”
In retrospect, Brooke believes the nasty 2009 divorce between her mother, Linda Hogan, and the Hulk caused her parents to spiral.
Brooke also shares that she no longer has a relationship with her mother, claiming to the magazine that Linda sent a text to Steve, 40, that was “so cruel and so brutal that if there was any chance at reconciliation, that shut the door completely.”
She noted, “No child wants to not have their parents.”
But in March 2025 on her Instagram Story, per Us Weekly, Brooke had claimed she was “verbally and mentally abused” in childhood — without specifically blaming either parent.
The Hulk never publicly addressed her charges. But Linda, 66, has denied her daughter’s abuse claims and accused her of “spewing lies” in a Facebook post.
Today, Brooke appears to be holding out hope for a future with her brother, 35-year-old Nick Hogan.
“The saddest thing about broken families is the siblings,” she mused to Us Weekly. “The siblings suffer the most because you’re always forced to take a side.”
While Brooke claims she hasn’t always “felt supported” by Nick during difficult times, she insisted, “No matter what trouble my brother gets into, no matter what he does or who he is, that’s my brother. That’s my little brother and that will never change. He’s got a big sister ‘til the end.”
While Hulk is no longer alive, Brooke shared, “In a weird way, I feel like I have a better relationship with him now. I find myself just talking to him and saying all the things I wish I could have said.”
