Brooke Hogan Breaks Silence on Hulk Hogan's Death, Clears Up Relationship

Brooke Hogan is breaking her silence on Hulk Hogan's death ... and she's clearing up a few things involving their relationship.

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The former reality star, 37, took to social media on Tuesday, July 29 to share a lengthy, emotional message about her father, whose real name was Terry Bollea. In the extensive Instagram post, Brooke detailed her father's health over the last few years, and set the record straight on her estrangement from Hulk.

She began by discussing her deep "bond" with her father.

“When he left this earth, it felt like part of my spirit left with him. I felt it before the news even reached us,” Brooke wrote. "... I know he’s at peace now, out of pain, and in a place as beautiful as he imagined. He used to speak about this moment with such wonder and hope. Like meeting God was the greatest championship he’d ever have."

Then, saying it was "necessary to clear a few things up," Brooke explained that it was not a single "fight" or one moment that caused their estrangement.

"It was a series of private phone calls no one will ever hear, know, or understand," she said. "My father was confiding in me about issues weighing on his heart, both personal and business. I offered to be a life raft in whatever capacity he needed. I told him he had my support. I begged him to rest, to take care of himself."

Brooke said that she and her husband, former NHL player Steven Olesky, moved to Florida to be closer to Hulk as he dealt with health issues. "We had been through almost 25 surgeries together, and then all of a sudden he didn’t want me at surgeries…everything started getting covered in a thick veil. It was like there was a force field around him that I couldn’t get through."

"He was telling me these things, being so vulnerable with me and heard my pleas, then suddenly something shifted, and he made a choice to walk the path that clearly tore at his spirit," she continued. "I felt a disconnect. What followed were respectful disagreements that took an emotional toll on me."

"During the last two years, I had to step away to protect my heart," she said.

During that time, Olesky had stayed in contact with Hulk, Brooke said, "without me knowing, trying to find a safe way back in for me. After my father passed, I read those messages, some answered, some ignored….but all of them broke my heart."

"I know in my heart I did everything I could," Brooke said. "He knew I would run through a burning building for him. And in many ways, along the path of life, I did. He knows how deeply, how hard and how purely I loved him. I am at peace knowing this."

The post comes five days after emergency services were called to Hogan's home in Clearwater Beach, Fl. at 9:51 a.m. local time, according to dispatch calls reviewed by PEOPLE.

The WWE legend also shared son Nick Hogan with Brooke's mother, his ex-wife Linda.

Brooke, who, along with her family starred on the reality show Hogan Knows Best from 2005 to 2007, did not attend his wedding to his third wife Sky Daily in September 2023.

Her estrangement was the subject of a March 2025 Instagram Story by her mother Linda. “Brooke doesn’t talk to us. She had twins, she got married [and] she didn’t tell us," Linda, 65, said in the story.

Since leaving the Hogan family spotlight, Brooke has ventured into design, launching BB Designs by Brooke in 2018.

Brooke tied the knot in 2022 with Oleksy. The two kept their relationship largely quiet, and announced the birth of fraternal twins, Oliver Andrew and Molly Gene, in January 2025.

In addition to his daughter’s tribute, other celebrities such as Dwayne Johnson, Sylvester Stallone and John Cena have shared messages devoted to Hogan and offered condolences.