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Hulk Hogan Responds To Ex-Wife Linda Saying She Feared Hogan Would Kill Her
Posted on Tue Jun 28, 2011 03:25 PM PDT
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Hulk Hogan called into the Bubba the Love Sponge Show radio program Tuesday morning to respond to comments that his ex-wife, Linda Hogan, 52, made on The Today Show the same day.
Linda claimed Hulk used steroids and physically abused her during their 25-year marriage. Hulk said on the show:
- "The stuff she said about me is a total, blatant lie. I never laid a hand on her. … She’s still riding on the Hulk Hogan name."
On Today to promote her autobiography Wrestling the Hulk - My Life against the Ropes, Linda said, "I was afraid he would kill me in a drug rage."
Linda told Matt Lauer that on one occasion Hulk pinned her to their bed with his hands around her throat. "I did not want to end up a statistic, like Nicole Simpson," Linda said, referring to OJ Simpson's wife. Linda filed for divorce in 2007.
She describes the world of wrestling and steroids as she knew it:
- "'Wrestlers had a reason to do every kind of drug and narcotic around and help numb them from the pain of what they were doing ... a lot of them did take steroids ... I was quiet and afraid to say anything. Had I said something the carpet would have been pulled from under his career. But it was scary. I did not know how far he would go."
Since splitting with Hulk, Linda has been dating a man 30 years her junior, who was a friend of her children -- Brooke and Nick. The Hogan family was depicted on the reality show Hogan Knows Best from 2005 to 2007.
Hulk, 57, is a 12-time world champion wrestler from the WWF. He also told Bubba that while he and Linda were married, his then-wife would constantly threaten that she would leave him for a younger man.
X17 caught up with Linda in LA on Sunday -- see the exclusive pics in our gallery below. She looks much happier now!
What do you think? Do you believe Linda?
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Comments
First, lay off the twinkii's Linda. Second, I hate it when a grown woman who obviously wants more money for her and the guy she's supporting need more money and uses the old, if I can help other women crap. Get a life!!!! What kind of idiot would buy a book like this. She misses the camera attention. Even since there son almost killed that young vet and they ALL feel no guilt. I lost ALL respect for Hulk and his horrible family.
Maybe we can all get lucky and they take each other out, at the same time.
Anything in lindas book about the incest between hulk & brooke?
Please! I'm a straight woman but, just living in the same house with her, would have made me want to kill her! I don't believe it, considering the way she spoke to him, belittled him, spent his money, and had her way on the show. She used him, and I have to agree, she's still using him to make more money. She seriously needs to go away.
She's looking mean. Why??? How can she be mad, after taking him for everything he's got??? Boy! She sure likes the cameras! LOL Look at her smile, knowing the cameras on clicking her! LOL
It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn't love you were in. There are no 'exit' signs in love, there is only an 'on' ramp. (( B_l_a_c_k_w_h_i_t_e_C_u_p_i_d. c_0_m )) Lots of my friends found their lovers through the se'rvice. You may have a try... ;)
pss: HULK HOGAN COULDN'T KILL A BUG, folks!!
google,hulk hogan incest.poor brooke.
Why aren't the children speaking up? If there was any violence, I'm sure they were witness to it. One of them is lying...
Neither of them are talented and fit to raise children, much less demand we care about their wasted, pathetic lives