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Linda Hogan, Hulk Hogan's first wife, claims her family has been fractured since she and the WWE star divorced.
The former TV personality, 65, alleged in her Wednesday, March 26, Instagram Stories that the retired WWE star, 71, is a “sex addict” and “liar," and that she is estranged from their daughter, Brooke Hogan, 37, TMZ, PageSix and E! News report.
“It’s been 15, however long years since I left Hulk Hogan, and my family is the worst mess,” she said in her Instagram Stories.
The couple was married from 1983 to July 2009, when their divorce was finalized. The Hogan family rose to fame together on their VH1 reality series, Hogan Knows Best. The series aired for four seasons from 2005 to 2007.
“Brooke doesn’t talk to us. She had twins, she got married [and] she didn’t tell us,” Linda said about Brooke and Steven Oleksy's private wedding in 2022 and the birth of their twins, Oliver Andrew and Molly Gene, in January 2025.
Linda alleged that Brooke stopped talking to her when Brooke got into a fight with her father around eight years ago. “I don’t know how that reflected onto me but she cut me out too,” she said.
Linda confirmed that she still has a relationship with her and the WWE star’s son, Nick Hogan, 34. “He’s still such a good boy.”
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“I have to be honest about what I went through in my marriage,” she said. “And what it entailed and what it [has] caused over the years.”
“He’s a complete liar. He’s a sex addict,” she continued. “Yet he marches on, like, ‘Oh, I'm promoting my own beer, real American beer. Yeah, look at me,’ ” she said of his beer company.
“I've given him more opportunities to come back and make up the family,” she said. “It’s been 20 years and I’m still this sad. Somebody please explain that.” Adding, “I do love living alone. I don’t ever want to be married again after him, trust me.”
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After Hulk and Linda divorced, he married his second wife, Jennifer McDaniel, in 2010. They later divorced in 2021. He then tied the knot with his current wife, Sky Daily, in September 2023.
At the time of Hulk and Daily’s wedding, Brooke released a statement via Instagram addressing her absence from the wedding, saying the Hogan family’s dynamics have “experienced a LOT of change.”
“For my own journey to healing and happiness, I have chosen to create some distance between myself and my family, and am focusing on people and things that heal my heart and align with my own personal beliefs, goals, and values," she wrote at the time.
