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Hulk Hogan (pic) is reportedly on the mend after undergoing “pretty serious heart surgery” amid his estrangement from daughter Brooke.
The 71-year-old wrestling star is “recovering” and “doing well,” an insider told Us Weekly on Wednesday, though they offered no other details on what led to the operation.
Earlier in the day, radio host Bubba the Love Sponge said he’d heard that Hogan had been hospitalized.
“There are phone calls being made to various family members about getting to town to come say your goodbyes,” said the on-air personality. “I’ve heard people say that he might not make it.”
In the wake of the chatter, the source told Us Weekly the surgery wasn’t a “near-death thing,” assuring fans that Hogan is not “on death’s door.”
The famous family made headlines in March when Hogan’s ex-wife Linda posted a tearful video about the “mess” of their relationship with Brooke, whom she claimed “doesn’t talk to us.”
“She’s had twins. She got married, she didn’t tell us,” Linda said at the time.
Brooke and former Stanley Cup winner Steven Oleksy secretly tied the knot in June 2022 and became parents this January, with the arrival of fraternal twins.
“I have completely separate reasons for going no contact with each of my parents,” Brooke said in an Instagram statement following her mother’s video. “No contact with my Mom has nothing to do with my Dad, and no contact with my Father has nothing to do with my Mother.”
The new mum then accused her parents of longstanding abuse — verbal, mental and “frequently … physical. And sometimes it’s not by the person you would assume.”
Linda responded to the allegations by accusing her daughter of once being “so drunk she broke my collarbone and cut my lip.”
The matriarch conceded that she’d “spanked Brooke once” and called her “a couple of names,” but insisted she “by no means ever treated her the way she’s painting it.”
Oleksy defended his wife against the “laughable” allegations, saying that Linda Hogan’s claims “fall well short of the truth.”
The Daily News has reached out to a representative for Hulk Hogan. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
