Brooke Hogan says she opted for intimacy over custom when it got here to saying goodbye to her late father, Hulk Hogan.
The previous actuality TV star, who hasn’t been involved along with her dad for a number of years, defined in an Instagram submit revealed Tuesday why she determined to skip the WWE icon’s funeral.
Hulk, whose actual title is Terry Bollea, died of cardiac arrest final month. He was 71.
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A funeral was held for the wrestling legend Tuesday in Clearwater, Florida, which included visitors just like the “A-Team” alum’s spouse, Sky Day by day, his ex-wife Linda Hogan, musician Child Rock and comic Theo Von, Folks stories.
However Brooke — who was the star of her father’s actuality TV collection, “Hogan Knows Best” and its spinoff “Brooke Knows Best” within the 2000s — didn’t attend.
Later that very same day, the “About Us” singer defined her absence in a carousel submit, which featured photographs of herself, her husband Steven Oleksy, and the couple’s twins Oliver and Molly — whom they welcomed in January — spending some household time on the seaside.
“My father hated the morbidity of funerals,” Brooke started. “He didn’t want one.”
She went on to say that though she’s “grateful for all celebrations and events organized to honor him,” she reminded her followers that “people grieve in many ways.”
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“As his daughter, I had to make my own decision to honor him the best and most genuine way I knew how…privately…the way that made me feel the closest to him,” Brooke wrote.
She then revealed why her household determined to go to the seaside quite than attend his funeral.
“Daddy, we honored you in the simplest way that agreed with my soul,” she wrote. “We took our babies to the beach, and put them in the same salty waters you loved. Molly loved the water. I think she’ll be a ‘little fish’ as you called me.”
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She continued, “We love you and honor the things that made you so special. Every grain of sand and every wave reminded me of being your beach baby, and brought us closer to you.”
“The only thing missing today was [you] in is pop up lawn chair watching the waves… and the sunset 💔,” she added.
Hulk’s household life has been strained for years as a result of a string of controversial incidents, which additionally shifted the way in which the general public seen the WWE Corridor of Famer.
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In 2007, his first spouse, Linda filed for divorce amid accusations that the wrestler had cheated with one among Brooke’s buddies. In 2012, the web site Gawker posted a secretly recorded intercourse tape of Hulk having an affair with a detailed pal’s spouse. This prompted Hulk to sue Gawker, and throughout the litigation course of, a recording was found of Hulk occurring a racist rant about his daughter relationship a Black man.
Regardless of the hardships, Brooke did appear heartbroken by her father’s dying.
“When he left this earth, it felt like part of my spirit left with him,” she wrote on Instagram after he handed. “I felt it before the news even reached us.”
