Hulk Hogan opened up about hitting “rock bottom” following his divorce from his first wife, Linda Hogan, in his final interview before his death.
The late WWE icon — who died of a heart attack at age 71 in July 2025 — admitted to feeling suicidal after he said he gave much of his vast fortune to Linda, 66, in their divorce, which was finalized in 2009.
“I went home and I started drinking and, you know, started eating pills, and I just went down this rabbit hole for a couple days, and the next thing I know, I’m sitting in front of my bathroom with a gun in my mouth and not knowing what I was doing,” Hogan said in an interview for the Netflix documentary Hulk Hogan: Real American, which premiered on Wednesday, April 22.
“I hit rock bottom. I gave Linda 70 percent of everything because I just didn’t want to ever talk to her again, be with her, I never wanted to see her again,” the 12-time world champion added, per People. “So, I gave her everything to get rid of her, and after the divorce I had no money.”
Following his divorce from Linda — with whom Hogan shared daughter Brooke, 37, and son Nick, 35 — Hogan joined wrestling company Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling in 2009, which he said “saved me” because he was “broke.”
Hogan joined TNA alongside former WCW executive and longtime friend Eric Bischoff, who recalled in the documentary that at the time, Hogan “was down and he was hurting.”
“He was in the darkest, most devastating part of his life,” Bischoff added.
Linda was also interviewed for the documentary and spoke about feeling love for Hogan, even after his death.
“I still care about him the same … it doesn’t go away. I wish things would’ve turned out differently for us,” she said. “But then when he got sick, I realized that my love never faded for him. I still had love for him. I really do. I still love him.”
Hogan wed Jennifer McDaniel in 2010, a year after his divorce from Linda, but the pair divorced in 2021. In September 2023, he married Sky Daily, who remained with him until his death.
Following Hogan’s death in July 2025, Linda mourned the loss of her former husband, writing in an Instagram post, “I had no idea he would pass away this soon. We all really thought he would make a comeback! Big surprise. We are all devastated. It’s hitting me so hard.”
“I love you Hulkster. You were my man. The only man for me. RIP,” Linda, who wed Hogan in 1983, wrote.
Hogan’s cause of death was ruled an acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, per documents obtained by Us Weekly. The documents noted Hogan had a history of leukemia CLL, a type of cancer that affects white blood cells called lymphocytes, which he did not publicly reveal during his lifetime.
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