{"id":183695,"date":"2025-07-29T22:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/brooke-hogan-pays-heartfelt-tribute-to-hulk-hogan\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:03:10","slug":"brooke-hogan-pays-heartfelt-tribute-to-hulk-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/brooke-hogan-pays-heartfelt-tribute-to-hulk-hogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Hogan pays heartfelt tribute to Hulk Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-29\" datetime=\"1753826590\" pubdate=\"\">29 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Brooke and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/hulk-hogan\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,hulk-hogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hulk Hogan<\/a> &#8220;had a connection deeper than words&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Brooke Hogan has paid tribute to her dad<\/p>\n<p>The wrestling legend died from cardiac arrest on July 24, aged 71, and Brooke, his 37-year-old daughter, has now taken to social media to pay tribute to her dad and to reflect on their turbulent relationship.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy post on Instagram, Brooke explained: &#8220;When he left this earth, it felt like part of my spirit left with him. I felt it before the news even reached us. I know he\u2019s at peace now, out of pain, and in a place as beautiful as he imagined. He used to speak about this moment with such wonder and hope. Like meeting God was the greatest championship he\u2019d ever have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brooke also used her post to &#8220;clear a few things up&#8221; regarding their estrangement.<\/p>\n<p>The realty star wrote: &#8220;It was a series of private phone calls no one will ever hear, know, or understand. My father was confiding in me about issues weighing on his heart, both personal and business. I offered to be a life raft in whatever capacity he needed. I told him he had my support. I begged him to rest, to take care of himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBrooke and her husband, Steven Olesky, actually moved closer to the wrestler as he battled with health problems.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;We had been through almost 25 surgeries together, and then all of a sudden he didn\u2019t want me at surgeries\u2026everything started getting covered in a thick veil. It was like there was a force field around him that I couldn\u2019t get through. (sic)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nTheir relationship ultimately collapsed amid a series of &#8220;respectful disagreements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nBrooke explained: &#8220;He was telling me these things, being so vulnerable with me and heard my pleas, then suddenly something shifted, and he made a choice to walk the path that clearly tore at his spirit. I felt a disconnect. What followed were respectful disagreements that took an emotional toll on me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBrooke ultimately took a step back from her dad in order to &#8220;protect [her] heart&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, she doesn&#8217;t have any regrets about how she dealt with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I know in my heart I did everything I could. He knew I would run through a burning building for him. And in many ways, along the path of life, I did. He knows how deeply, how hard and how purely I loved him. I am at peace knowing this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/brooke-hogan-pays-heartfelt-tribute-hulk-hogan-1422802.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 July 2025 Brooke and Hulk Hogan &#8220;had a connection deeper than words&#8221;. Brooke Hogan has paid tribute to her dad The wrestling legend died from cardiac arrest on July 24, aged 71, and Brooke, his 37-year-old daughter, has now taken to social media to pay tribute to her dad and to reflect on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4069,2790],"class_list":{"0":"post-183695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-brooke-hogan","9":"tag-hulk-hogan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}