The estranged family of WWE icon Hulk Hogan have revealed how they plan to heal after his tragic death.
The wrestling legend died at the age of 71 last month after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater, Florida – with tributes quickly pouring in for the WWE icon.
One of those tributes included a candid statement from his daughter Brooke, who opened up on her troubled relationship with the WWE icon in the wake of his death.
By the time Hogan died, he had gone years without speaking to Brooke, 37, and, according to her partner, had ‘no interest’ in meeting his daughter’s twins.
Despite the fractured relationship, the passing of the WWE icon hit hard for Hogan’s estranged family and now they have revealed how they plan to deal with his death.
Brooke’s husband, Steven Oleksy, told People: ‘We believe family is created, and through these trying times, great people have come into our life or come back into our life, and it’s brought us some great relationships and a great support system that we look at as family’.
In January, the couple welcomed their twins, Oliver Andrew and Molly Gene, whom Oleksy has called ‘absolute bundles of joy.’
He continued: ‘I’m looking forward to getting back and shifting our focus on our own family, and just taking the lessons that we’ve learned through these situations and just incorporating them into our own family and making sure that our son and daughter feel the love that we have for them each and every day’.
In the days that followed Hogan’s death, Oleksy revealed that he did in fact try to resolve their feud but that attempt was rebuffed by the WWE icon.
According to People, Oleksy said: ‘I sent text messages once again to kind of gauge where he was at, but there was no interest.’
‘She [Brooke] was there for every surgery leading up to the last two years. She would fly down on her own dime, take care of her dad, and it just made a lot of sense.
‘No one understood his body, procedures, medications and everything else more than my wife,’ he said.
Meanwhile, according to Us Weekly back in April, Oleksy had been ‘proactively trying to foster peace for years’.
The outlet claims that he had requested a ‘man-to-man conversation’ with Hogan but his efforts were rebuffed by the wrestling icon.
The report quotes a source close to Oleksy and Brooke who claimed that the couple’s ‘hurt is very, very heavy’.
Oleksy offered a public defense of his wife at the time, saying he wouldn’t ‘stand by and allow anyone to continue to hurt’ Brooke.
Hulk welcomed Brooke as well as son Nick, 35, with ex-wife Linda – whom he was married to from 1983 to 2009.
He later tied the knot with Jennifer McDaniel in 2010 until their divorce in 2021. Two years later, the WWE legend said ‘I do’ to Sky Daily and the pair were married up until his death on Thursday.
Brooke and her father last spoke nearly two years ago in September 2023 only weeks before he married his third wife Sky.
On that call, Brooke expressed love and concern for her father – telling him that he shouldn’t be working so hard due to his declining health. Despite her pleas for him to enjoy more of his life, those requests fell on deaf ears. The pair didn’t speak again.
Despite their fractured relationship, Brooke was recently left frustrated after being snubbed of an invite from the WWE as they paid tribute to her late father.
‘For those of you giving me c*** for not attending my Dad’s tributes, @WWE did not extend an invite,’ she wrote on her Instagram story Wednesday.
Daily Mail has contacted WWE for comment.
Meanwhile, her brother Nick honored his ‘best friend’ and father in a heartbreaking statement as he joined the WWE’s poignant tribute ahead of Monday Night Raw.
He looked visibly emotional as he stood alongside WWE stars past and present for a 10-bell salute to his father. His wife Tana Lea was also seen wiping away tears after joining her husband on stage for the event in Detroit.
