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Hulk Hogan‘s daughter, Brooke Oleksy, is a new mother to twins — but the babies’ maternal grandparents won’t be meeting them anytime soon. The 36-year-old has revealed that she isn’t talking to either one of her parents — for harrowing reasons that she outlined in a seven-slide social media post.
In light of the Hogan family drama reaching a boiling point, Brooke published her allegations to Instagram on Thursday night, March 27. The writing first addresses a video that mom Linda Hogan posted to Facebook (and published by Page Six after Linda apparently deleted it) earlier that day in which she sobs and claims that Brooke hasn’t talked to either her mom or dad for almost eight years. She finishes the video by saying that her other child, son Nick, 34, “is still such a good boy.”
Linda, 65, and Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea, 71) were married from 1983 to 2009, welcoming Brooke in 1988 and Nick in 1990.
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“There was a recent video posted by my Mother that was concerning enough for people to send to me, that has made me feel the need to address the tip of a very large iceberg that is my immediate family,” Brooke wrote on Instagram. “What little I am addressing does not even scratch the surface of what I’ve dealt with my entire life.”
“I have been EXTREMELY verbally and mentally abused since childhood,” she claimed in the post. “Sadly, it would frequently turn physical. And sometimes it’s not by the person you would assume…This vicious pattern has robbed me of any sense of self-esteem or confidence I’ve been trained to pretend to have.”
The former couple’s estranged daughter wrote that “until adulthood” she “received berating and vile text messages, verbal, public reamings” and was asked “to defend poor behavior to the public.” After doing so, she said she was “manipulated and lied to,” and had to watch “others benefit financially off my suffering and embarrassment…I’ve been used as a pawn.”
“My family is very skilled at war,” she wrote.
Brooke said in the post that she loves her family and tried again and again to make things right. But now she is focused on her own husband — she married hockey player Steven Oleksy, 39, in 2022 — and their 2-month-old babies, Oliver and Molly. “Cycles must be broken,” she wrote. “I hope everyone can give me the chance to do that without injecting any more poison into it.”
If you or someone you know is experiencing child abuse, call The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1 (800) 422-4453, open 24/7.