Why Brooke Hogan Went No Contact With Parents Before Hulk’s Death originally appeared on Parade.
Brooke Hogan opened up about why she had gone no contact with parents Hulk Hogan and Linda Hogan just four months before her father’s shocking death — and the 37-year-old claimed both parents failed her in separate ways.
“I will keep things as vague as possible to continue to protect people…that should have protected me. Most importantly, I have completely separate reasons for going no contact with each of my parents,” she explained via a lengthy Instagram post in March 2025. “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.”
She went on to claim, “I have been EXTREMELY verbally and mentally abused since childhood. Sadly, it would frequently turn physical. And sometimes it’s not by the person you would assume, abuse comes in all shapes and sizes. This vicious pattern has robbed me of any sense of self-esteem or confidence I’ve been trained to pretend to have.”
Hogan detailed some instances of alleged abuse but mainly kept the details under wraps.
“Up until adulthood, I’ve received berating and vile text messages, verbal, public reamings with unbelievably hurtful words said to me that cannot be forgotten. I’ve been ASKED to defend poor behavior to the public and have done so out of love,” she continued. “Only to find I was misinformed, manipulated, and lied to. Still to this day I face constant ridicule for those poor decisions of others. I’ve watched others benefit financially off my suffering and embarrassment caused by their selfish behavior. While it caused my life to crumble, I continued to stay strong and silent.”
Hogan added, “I was expected to – and DID forgive massive blows to my career and personal life, nasty behavior, omissions of truth, blatant lies, manipulation, and repetitive errors in hopes of renewing previous family bonds. I’ve been used as a pawn, a buffer, and been treated like I’m downright stupid too. No child or human should ever experience something like this.”
Linda Hogan, 65, followed up with a response via her Facebook page the next day, where she denied the allegations made by her daughter regarding herself and her ex-husband, who was born Terry Bollea.
“Seems narcissism runs deep in this family. Brooke is a narcissist just like her dad … going out … spewing lies to everyone and I’m supposed to defend my truth against that. I’m not about to do that,” Brooke’s mother wrote. “It seems to me that she doesn’t want the truth being revealed to her new hisband [sic] and his family about who she was and things in her past.”
She continued, “I think I spanked Brooke once yeah I called her a couple of names, by no means ever treated her the way she’s painting it. They had cell phones. She could’ve posted horrible things about me back when all of this was supposedly happening, but nothing 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 went on to make her own allegations against Brooke. “It’s her angle to keep her family away from her now, revealing who she used to be after drinking a half a bottle of vodka,” she wrote in her Facebook post. “[Brooke] was so drunk she broke my collarbone and cut my lip and insisted everyone take her to the hospital because she was poisoned and she wasn’t. She was just drunk… there’s many stories like that. I’m not gonna go on, but I’m not gonna defend myself against these ridiculous allegations. I’ll do that in court if she keeps it up.”
In response, Brooke shared a second statement via Instagram where she showed what appeared to be proof that her mother had, in fact, met her husband, Steven Oleksy. Alongside the second statement, the BB Designs By Brooke founder included a photo of herself, her husband, and her mother with two other people, and it included metadata showing the image was allegedly taken in June 2023.
“My post did not directly accuse anyone of the behaviors mentioned. So if she’s triggered by something, I think that speaks volumes,” Brooke noted in her response statement. “She is however making a serious accusation against me directly that has zero validity. And THAT I take seriously. I have plenty of people who know the truth, and I know the truth, so I am not afraid.”
She also captioned the post, “Thank you for all of the support. I am embarrassed that I even have to make another post about this.”
Linda and Hulk married in 1983 and divorced in 2009. They share two children, Brooke and Nick Hogan, and shared their lives as a family with the world on their reality series Hogan Knows Best from 2005 to 2007.
Why Brooke Hogan Went No Contact With Parents Before Hulk’s Death first appeared on Parade on Jul 24, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 24, 2025, where it first appeared.
