Hulk Hogan has seemingly reacted after his ex-wife, Linda Hogan, made headlines for her estrangement with daughter Brooke.
“Getting ready for the new HH TV show 🍿 🍿 🍿 coming soon!” Hulk, 71, wrote in a joint Instagram post with wife Sky Daily Hogan on Sunday, March 30. (Hulk and Sky wed in 2023.)
In the video, the former wrestler and Sky sat side-by-side as they ate from bags of popcorn and widened their eyes in disbelief and raised their eyebrows.
Us Weekly reached out to Hulk’s rep for comment.
The mother-daughter duo made headlines on Wednesday, March 26, when Linda claimed that she and Brooke, 36, hadn’t spoken in nearly eight years.
“It’s been 15 — or longer — years since I left Hulk Hogan and my family is in the worst mess,” Linda claimed in a since-expired video obtained by multiple outlets. “Brooke doesn’t talk to us. She’s had twins. She got married, she didn’t tell us. She had a huge fight with Terry. I don’t know how that reflected onto me, but she cut me out too.”
Brooke went on to address her mother’s remarks the next day, explaining that she was estranged from both of her parents. (Hulk and Linda, who divorced in 2009, are also parents to Nick Hogan.)
“I have completely separate reasons for going no contact with each of my parents,” Brooke wrote in a Thursday, March 27, Instagram statement. “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. … This decision was made based purely on how they have each dealt with me my entire life.”
Brooke alleged that she was “extremely verbally and mentally abused” in her childhood, which would allegedly “frequently turn physical.” While Brooke did not name her alleged abuser, she alleged that the claims were “not pointed” at either of her parents.
“This vicious pattern has robbed me of any sense of self-esteem or confidence I’ve been trained to pretend to have,” Brooke said. “It took me many years to figure out the things that were seemingly done ‘for me’ really benefited someone else in a greater capacity. … No child or human should ever experience something like this.”
Brooke, who pursued therapy, said she cut off communication with some of her family members.
“As much as I not only understand and have empathy for their own struggles, I absolutely LOVE them with every fiber of my being — which deep down I think they know,” Brooke said. “My heart hurts every day, and not a day passes [that] it does not affect me. Inside of me, there is a little girl who desperately wants and needs her mom and dad. No one wants this, to feel so much pain and not have parents … [and] I hope, one day, they realize, appreciate and respect why I’ve chosen to remain as quiet as possible.”
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Linda reacted to Brooke’s claims the next day, calling her daughter a “narcissist” and appearing to address the “abuse” claims.
“I think I spanked Brooke once yeah I called her a couple couple [sic] of names, by no means ever treated her the way she’s painting it,” Linda wrote via Facebook on Friday, March 28. “They had cell phones. She could’ve posted horrible things about me back when all of this was supposedly happening, but she didn’t because nothing was happening, but when she took her dad’s side after the divorce and wrote the wonderful Mom song, and went to all the tabloids because Terry was using her as a tool.. her memory is completely skewed about the treatment that she received growing up in our household, and you can talk to anyone. You can ask anybody you can ask Terry .. that none of the stuff ever happened.”
Linda also accused her daughter of being violent while drinking, which Brooke denied in a separate Instagram statement hours later.
“My post did not directly accuse anyone of the behaviors mentioned. So if she is triggered by something, I think that speaks volumes,” Brooke wrote via Instagram. “She is however, making a serious accusation against me directly that has zero validity. And THAT I take seriously.”
Us reached out to Brooke, Linda and Hulk’s reps for comment at the time.
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Amid the drama, a source exclusively told Us that Hulk (real name Terry Gene Bollea) “not speaking to Brooke is [a] much more recent thing.” The insider added that Hulk “tells people he doesn’t specifically know why Brooke won’t speak to him.”
While Linda called Hulk “a s***ty husband sometimes,” she claimed in a Saturday, March 29, interview with TMZ that he was “always a good father” to their two kids. In Linda’s perspective, a reconciliation with Brooke doesn’t seem likely.
“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.”
Brooke, for her part, is moving forward after the drama. Brooke, who welcomed twins with husband Steven Oleksy in January, shared a series of photos with her family via Instagram on Saturday. She captioned the post, “Back to R E A L I T Y. 🩷.”
