Hulk Hogan’s Ex-Wife Linda Looked Back on Better Times with the WWE Star Days Before His Death 

Five days before Hulk Hogan’s sudden death at age 71, his ex-wife Linda Hogan reminisced about their past.

“The good old days!” Linda, 65, wrote on Instagram alongside an image from their 26-year marriage.

In the photo, Linda wore a glamorous black dress as she posed next to her WWE wrestler husband, who was dressed for the ring.

Earlier this year, the mother of two shared that the family they built together — including daughter Brooke and son Nick — was fractured and that she was estranged from Brooke, 37.

“It’s been 15-however long years since I left Hulk Hogan, and my family is the worst mess,” Linda, who was married to Hulk from 1983-2009, said in a video posted to her Instagram Stories on March 26.

She continued, “Brooke doesn’t talk to us. She had twins, she got married [and] she didn’t tell us,” Linda said, referring to Brooke and Steven Oleksy’s private wedding in 2022 and the birth of their twins, Oliver Andrew and Molly Gene, in January 2025.

Linda alleged that Brooke stopped talking to her when she got into a fight with her father about eight years ago. 

“I don’t know how that reflected onto me but she cut me out too,” she said. 

The family rose to fame together on their VH1 reality show, Hogan Knows Best, a series that aired for four seasons from 2005-2007.

In the video, Linda said that she was on good terms with Nick, but that she was still “sad” about how her marriage to Hulk ended.

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“I have to be honest about what I went through in my marriage,” she said. “And what it entailed and what it [has] caused over the years. He’s a complete liar. He’s a sex addict, yet he marches on, like, ‘Oh, I’m promoting my own beer, real American beer. Yeah, look at me,’ ” she said of Hulk’s beer company. 

Linda added, “I’ve given him more opportunities to come back and make up the family. It’s been 20 years and I’m still this sad. Somebody please explain that.”

In an interview with TMZ days after she posted the video to her Stories, Linda said Hulk was  “a s—– husband sometimes,” but was “always a good father.” 

“[He] spent probably over $3 million on Brooke’s career, with no questions asked,” she said.

After his divorce from Linda, Hulk married his second wife, Jennifer McDaniel, in 2010. They later divorced in 2021, after which he tied the knot with wife Sky Daily in September 2023.