Linda Hogan is looking back on her marriage to ex-husband Hulk Hogan.
In a Saturday, March 29, interview with TMZ, Linda, 65, claimed that while Hulk, 71, was “a s***ty husband sometimes,” he was “always a good father” to daughter Brooke, now 36, and son Nick, now 34.
“[He] spent probably over $3 million on Brooke’s career, with no questions asked,” Linda, who divorced the retired wrestler in 2009, told TMZ. “Our marriage didn’t work out, but what Brooke’s doing to us is completely unprecedented, unexpected and unfair and not true. Hulk Hogan, my ex, has been really distraught and saddened by her distance, just as I and her brother Nick [are], as well.”
Linda recently accused Brooke of breaking off communication between the mother-daughter pair, alleging via social media earlier this week that the interior designer hadn’t been in touch in nearly eight years. Brooke, meanwhile, explained that she was estranged from both of her parents for different reasons.
Brooke Hogan Addresses Mom Linda’s Claims They Haven’t Spoken in 8 Years
“No contact with my mom has nothing to do with my dad, and no contact with my father has nothing to do with my mother,” Brooke said in a Wednesday, March 26, Instagram statement. “This decision was made based purely on how they have each dealt with me my entire life. … I’ve repeatedly held my hand out to help them, only to have them pull me into the darkness with them. I’ve set boundaries that were not respected, and at this point, I can truly do no more.”
Two days later, Brooke claimed that she last saw her mom in June 2023 and shared photo proof. In the snap, Brooke and husband Steven Oleksy met up with Linda for an intimate outing. (Brooke and hockey player Oleksy, 39, have been married since 2022. They welcomed twins, Oliver and Molly, earlier this year.)
Hulk Hogan’s Ex-Wife Linda Calls Daughter Brooke a ‘Narcissist’
After Brooke’s comments on the estrangement, Linda doesn’t think a reconciliation is possible.
“After what Brooke has done and to punish us and torture us, to get married and to have twins and to not call us, the damage has already been done,” Linda told TMZ. “I don’t think she could hurt us anymore, so she can just march on her merry way with her family. I wish them well, but she has left a path of destruction.”
Hulk (real name Terry Gene Bollea) has not publicly addressed the family’s drama.
“Terry not speaking to Brooke is [a] much more recent thing,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly, noting that Hulk also “tells people he doesn’t specifically know why Brooke won’t speak to him.”
