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Brooke Hogan mirrored on the troublesome, fraught finish of her father Hulk Hogan’s life — and emotionally mentioned the place issues stand now along with her mom, Linda, and brother, Nick.
In an unique interview with Us Weekly, Brooke, 37 — who acknowledged she “didn’t speak” to her father for “two years” earlier than he died in July 2025 — recalled how her vocal distaste for Hulk’s interior circle in the end led to their estrangement.
“He said, ‘You go this way, I go that way,’” mentioned Brooke, who stars on season 7 of HGTV’s Rock the Block. “That hurt. I think that’s what makes me the most annoying member of my family. They know that I will just beat you up until you do the right thing. I could see what was happening with him with the people around him. I could also see his potential and see how life could be. And he just wasn’t there.”
Brooke continued, “I was pregnant with my twins. I was newly married. I just had to take a break.”
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Brooke welcomed twins Oliver and Molly in January 2025 along with her husband, former NHL participant Steve Oleksy, whom she married in June 2022.
Hulk died after struggling a coronary heart assault at his house in Florida. He was 71 years outdated.
“I don’t know if we would have ever reconnected, even if he were alive, because of the mindset he was in,” Brooke mentioned. “He would have had to have a change of mindset and a change of company. I don’t know if he was there. I don’t know if he was willing to do that.”
At the time of his loss of life, Hulk was married to his third spouse, Sky Daily. The pair tied the knot in September 2023, nonetheless, Brooke didn’t point out Daily by identify.
“You feel so powerless,” Brooke mentioned of these ultimate years. “It’s such a tangled web, too. It’s dangerous talking about, criticizing certain people. You just kind of have to shut up and let people make their own decisions because it was becoming too gnarly.”
As the one-year anniversary of Hulk’s loss of life approaches, Brooke can now, at the least partially, have a look at the occasions that transpired by means of a bit of a bittersweet lens.
“I’m glad he’s out of pain. I know he was in a lot of pain,” Brooke mentioned about her father. “In a weird way, I feel like I have a better relationship with him now. I find myself just talking to him and saying all the things I wish I could have said.”
She continued, “He was kind of tough. It was hard to have tender moments with him because he just didn’t want to talk about it.”
While Brooke has managed to seek out peace along with her late father, the identical can’t be mentioned for her relationship with her mother, Linda, with whom she had a public falling out final yr.
In March 2025, Linda posted through her Instagram Story that Brooke “doesn’t talk to us” and claimed her daughter “didn’t tell us” when she acquired married or had her twins.
Brooke responded through Instagram, explaining the decision to cut off her parents got here after she had allegedly been “verbally and mentally abused since childhood.”
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“That’s a really tough one,” Brooke mentioned. “I’m always like, ‘I didn’t ask for this. Please stop bringing me into it.’ And then somehow I always get brought into it. When it started to be things that weren’t true, I was like, ‘That’s not true.’ No child wants to not have their parents. It has to be serious enough to make that decision.”
Brooke mentioned Linda not too long ago despatched a textual content to her husband, Steve, that was “so cruel and so brutal that if there was any chance at reconciliation, that shut the door completely.”
“I don’t know why a family of mine would hate me when they know my heart,” Brooke contemplated. “It’s crazy. The divorce [between Hulk and Linda, which was finalized in 2009] caused a lot of triangulation. You’re dealing with two people who were probably soulmates, but with a lot of love comes a lot of hate.”
She continued, “I do think, as crazy as it was, my parents were 100 percent soulmates and they both absolutely spiraled once they lost each other. Their crazy was each other’s crazy.”
Brooke defined that her relationship with her younger brother, Nick, managed to get caught in the crossfire.
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“The saddest thing about broken families is the siblings,” Brooke mentioned. “The siblings suffer the most because you’re always forced to take a side. Nick and I, even though we had the same parents, we had two very different upbringings and two very different experiences. That is one thing my parents always said: ‘You guys are siblings, you always have to have each other’s back.’ No matter what trouble my brother gets into, no matter what he does or who he is, that’s my brother.”
She added, “Even if we don’t talk — because I haven’t felt supported by him in times where I really needed to feel that, sometimes I feel like he saw the same things I did and wouldn’t be a united front, that’s the thing that hurts me the most — but my brother is a very kind person. He’s very smart. He loves animals. There’s just so many great things about him and so many things that I love.”
Optimistically, Brooke concluded, “That’s my little brother and that can by no means change. He’s acquired a giant sister ‘til the end.”
While family drama continues to sort itself out, Brooke is making major strides in her professional career on the 7th season of HGTV’s Rock the Block, which pairs prime designers with celebrities, like Brooke, who share a ardour for design.
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“I got a lot of flack when people found out I was going to be on Rock the Block right after my dad had passed,” Brooke admitted. “But what they didn’t know is that I had already signed the deal. We were already in talks for a long time before my dad passed. It wasn’t like I was just jumping on the train.”
With the assistance of her childhood finest pal and Brooke Knows Best costar, Ashley Menendez, Brooke launched Nashville inside design agency BB Designs by Brooke in 2018.
“I grinded, it was really hard,” Brooke mentioned of changing into an entrepreneur. “Rock the Block was like a medal of honor. I think any designer would be like, ‘Hell yeah.’ This shows I’ve got the chops. They’re actually taking me seriously. It was really cool to get that call.”
Rock the Block airs on HGTV Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
