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Hulk Hogan contemplated suicide aft his divided from ex-wife Linda Hogan.
In nan precocious athlete’s last question and reply earlier his decease past year, which appeared successful Netflix’s “Hulk Hogan: Real American” documentary Wednesday, he elaborate his post-divorce “rock bottom.”
The master wrestler, who died of a bosom attack astatine 71, said he became “broke” aft giving his erstwhile spouse “70 percent” of his money to “get free of her.”
When nan “Hogan Knows Best” alum was near pinch “no money,” he made a viral quip to Rolling Stone astir “taking nan precocious road” and not “do[ing] nan O.J. Simpson thing,” referencing nan NFL subordinate allegedly sidesplitting woman Nicole Brown Simpson.
Following backlash from nan headline-making statement, Hulk remembered, “I went location and I started drinking and, you know, started eating pills. I conscionable went down this rabbit spread for a mates days.
“The adjacent point I know, I’m sitting successful beforehand of my bath pinch a weapon successful my rima and not knowing what I was doing,” Hulk continued.
He went connected to telephone nan breakup “very tough” and credited TNA (Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) with “saving” him financially.
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His friend Eric Bischoff characterized this play arsenic nan “darkest, astir devastating” portion of Hulk’s life.
“He was down, and he was hurting,” Hulk’s chap WWE Hall of Famer, 70, said.
Linda, 66, besides appeared successful nan documentary and opened up to viewers astir really overmuch she “still care[s]” astir her ex-husband contempt their falling out.
“It doesn’t spell away,” she said of her feelings for Hulk. “I wish things would’ve turned retired otherwise for us. But past erstwhile he got sick [with leukemia], I realized that my emotion ne'er faded for him.”
She insisted, “I still had emotion for him. I really do. I still emotion him.”
Elsewhere successful nan doc, Linda shared a raunchy communicative astir her and Hulk’s first date, claiming he went into nan bath successful his flat for “the longest time” earlier emerging “completely naked.”
The erstwhile mates were joined from 1983 to 2009, welcoming girl Brooke, 37, and boy Nick, 35, during their clip together.
Brooke is presently estranged from her family members and did not participate successful nan project.
Her brother, however, appeared successful nan doc arsenic he helped attraction for his dada astatine nan extremity of his life.
The task besides covered Hulk’s staggering fentanyl use, his WWE firing, his “rough” puerility and more.
If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, telephone aliases matter nan Suicide & Crisis Lifeline astatine 988.
