The discussion around Hulk Hogan’s death has taken a more personal turn. Brooke Hogan opened up about her difficult relationship with her father in the years before he passed away. Although the Clearwater Police Department has officially closed the case and ruled Hogan’s death a natural one, Brooke believes the investigation should have been more thorough.
Brooke has recently questioned how the Clearwater Police Department handled the investigation into Hogan’s death. Nevertheless, she says her biggest pain comes from what happened between them before he died.
Brooke Hogan opens up about her estrangement from Hulk Hogan
Speaking on The Bubba the Love Sponge Show, Brooke Hogan responded to criticism from fans who have questioned why she wasn’t at Hogan’s funeral and why she seemed absent from his life in his final years. She said that the situation was much more complicated than people realize.
Brooke said Hogan had shared some of his fears and concerns with her over the years. She claimed she tried many times to help him. However, she eventually felt there was only so much she could do if he wasn’t willing to accept that help.
She explained that their relationship gradually became strained and believes outside influences may have contributed to the growing distance between them.
“My father expressed distress to me. My father expressed the same fears I had. There’s a cloudy point where I don’t know what happened, but I have had people tell me that somebody started talking poorly about me to my dad, which led to my dad being kind of dismissive, kind of crappy to me, kind of whatever. And the whole thing bubbled into this icky little blister that popped,” Brooke said.
She said there were times when she felt her father was struggling, and she wanted him to accept help and support, but he chose not to.
“And I said, ‘I can’t do it anymore. I can’t save you. I can’t help you. You tell me that you need help, You tell me that you want out. You tell me that you’re scared. I’m scared too. Come with me.’ And he said, ‘No.’ And everything that I was talking about, I was right about,” Brooke said.
Brooke also pushed back against claims that she abandoned her father.
“And that’s the most frustrating thing is that the public wants to crap all over me for not attending my dad’s funeral or not being there or not being part of the last two years of his life. Well, trust me, I wanted to be there,” Brooke said.
She also claimed Hogan surrounded himself with people she didn’t trust and whom she viewed as opportunists. Brooke said she even told her husband that she feared her father wouldn’t do well without a strong support system around him.
“But he opened the door to a parade of users that came in. And as I watched it, my heart sunk because I told my husband, I said, ‘Babe, without me there, my dad’s not going to last long and I’m scared.’ And I literally had my hands tied and everybody wants to just absolutely trash me for coming out of the woodwork now. But this is the only time I’ve been able to come out of the woodwork. Thank God for you, Uncle Bubba, that you’ve got a platform. Thank God. And you’ve always been a voice to the people, but this is something that again goes beyond my father,” Brooke said.
Because of that, she finds the criticism especially painful. In her view, many people are judging a situation without knowing what was happening behind the scenes.
At the same time, Brooke continues to raise questions about the official investigation into Hogan’s death.
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