Hulk Hogan said in his final interview before his death that he once contemplated suicide after his marriage to Linda Hogan began to fall apart. In the Netflix documentary, he said he put a gun in his mouth during the breakup and then spent days drinking and taking pills as his life spiraled.
“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,” he said. Hogan, who died of a heart attack in July 2025 at 71, said he hit rock bottom after the divorce and gave Linda 70% of everything because he did not want to see her again.
That split carried heavy financial and personal consequences. Hogan said he was broke after the divorce and that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, or TNA, saved him. The documentary, Hulk Hogan: Real American, also points to his push to have his family star in the VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best as a major factor in the marriage breakdown.
Hogan and Linda were married in 1983 and had two children, Brooke and Nick. Linda also appears in the documentary and says her feelings for him never really disappeared. “I still care about him the same, it doesn’t go away,” she says, adding, “I wish things would’ve turned out differently for us.”
The most striking part of the documentary is that it leaves both the collapse and the lingering affection in the same frame. Linda says, “But then when he got sick, I realized that my love never faded for him,” and, “I still had love for him. I really do. I still love him.” For Hogan, the story ends not with the divorce itself, but with the cost of living through it and the support that pulled him back.
