Hulk Hogan explains in a new documentary about his life that he was the "happiest I've ever been" when he was raising his two young children alongside ex-wife Linda Hogan in the 1980s
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Hogan delves into his tumultuous life and career in a new interview filmed shortly before his July 2025 death
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Hulk Hogan: Real American is now streaming on Netflix
Shortly before his death last July,Hulk Hoganshared that he believes he was “happiest” in his life when he was raising his two young children alongside his wifeLinda Hoganin the 1980s.
Hogan, who died from a heart attack in July 2025, is the subject of Netflix’s new four-part docuseries,Hulk Hogan: Real American, out Wednesday, April 22. Much of the documentary details the late pro wrestler’s embattled personal life, including his immediate family and the family he began with his ex-wife Linda Hogan after they married in 1983.
Hogan and Linda, 66, shared two children together:Brooke Hogan, now 37, andNick Hogan, 35, who were both born in the years after the couple tied the knot in 1983.
Despite his and Linda’s 23-year marriage ending in a bitter divorce in 2009, Hogan reflects fondly on their life together in Netflix’s new docuseries, which features what turned out to be the late pro wrestler’s final interview of his life, filmed three months before his death last summer.
Towards the end of the series, Hogan is asked when he was the “happiest” he had ever been in his life.
After reflecting for a moment, Hogan shares that throughout the final years of his life he began to have routine flashbacks thinking back to when he and Linda were married, and Brooke and Nick were still young children.
“That was probably the most happiest I’ve ever been,” Hogan explains in perhaps the documentary’s most emotional and poignant moment, while showing home video of the late WWE star rolling around on the floor and playing with his children when they were kids.
Earlier in the documentary, Hogan explains that having kids changed his life.
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“My whole reason for living changed instantly,” Hogan says at one point while talking about when his first child, Brooke, was born. “I had no idea that my whole focus would change to try and protect this human being.”
Later, while talking about Nick’s birth, which was a surprise to him as he and Linda had not discussed plans to have another kid, Hogan tells producers he was “ecstatic” at the idea of having “a baby boy.”
The two remained close throughout Hogan’s life and are shown working out together in the beginning of the documentary at their family’s home in Clearwater, Fla.
“He was always affectionate with the kids,” Linda says elsewhere in the documentary. “[He] never forgot to say ‘I love you.’”
In the documentary’s final episode, Linda becomes emotional while discussing her late husband, who she says she still feels “love” for despite their highly publicized divorce.
“I still care about him the same, it doesn’t go away,” Linda explains. “I wish things would’ve turned out differently for us. But then when he got sick, I realized that my love never faded for him. I still had love for him. I really do. I still love him.”
Hulk Hogan: Real Americanis now streaming on Netflix.
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