Hulk Hogan death: Brooke Hogan raises questions about father's leukemia diagnosis, concerns about third marriage

Following her father Hulk’s death, Brooke Hogan is raising questions. She specifically pointed out his reported leukemia diagnosis as well as his third marriage to Sky Daily.

Hogan shared her concerns during her first interview since her father’s death, appearing on the Bubba the Love Sponge show. Hulk Hogan died died last month at age 71 after medics were dispatched to his Clearwater, Fla., home. It was described by emergency operators as a “cardiac arrest.”

A cremation report obtained by ABC News said Hogan from atrial fibrillation and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. However, Brooke Hogan said she didn’t know of such a leukemia diagnosis.

“For me, the no autopsy and the leukemia out of nowhere hits me as B.S.,” Hogan said. “… And I would be surprised that a surgeon would work on somebody with leukemia or somebody that would see a high white blood cell count and not do further investigation first. The first option is … treat the leukemia.”

After her father’s death, TMZ reported Brooke Hogan asked to be taken out of his will. The report cited an apparent distrust of the people around the WWF and WWE legend, and she confirmed that request during the interview.

Hogan said that distrust came after warnings from Mike Rinder, a former senior executive of the Church of Scientology who died in 2025. Hulk Hogan’s wife, Sky Daily, said she belonged to the Church of Scientology.

Once Brooke Hogan got married and started to have kids, she pointed out she had more at stake. As a result, she asked to be taken out of her father’s will.

“I loved him so much,” Hogan said of her father. “But when he entered this world of what Mike Rinder had warned me about, and I was now pregnant with twins and married … and I have something to lose, money didn’t matter. I was like, ‘Take me off everything.’ And I was sobbing when I wrote the message to Terry McCoy – the guy who manages his money. I was sobbing. And I just said take me off everything. I don’t want to be a part of it.

“In my mind, this is how the math was going to work out. If Sky is a Scientologist – which, apparently, she is still in good standing, but she says she left. It’s not for me to judge. She was always nice to me. I have no problem with Sky. But if she was a Scientologist, I know that that’s a very powerful backing. … I don’t want to fight [her mother] Linda, I don’t want to fight Scientology, I don’t want somebody I love to get knocked off. I don’t know how deep this stuff goes. It scared me. I just said, I want out. And It was never about money.”

Brooke Hogan: ‘I would’ve made him an Elvis legacy’

When it came to her father’s intellectual property, Brooke Hogan said she hoped to create a legacy similar to Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe. However, she made it clear she didn’t want to go through his inner circle, which is why she chose to step away.

“I had hoped that my dad at least trusted me with his IP – his intellectual property and his trademarks and stuff – because I would’ve done the right thing,” she said. “I would’ve made him an Elvis legacy or a Marilyn Monroe legacy or a Selena legacy.

“And I hope that whoever has his marks does that. I just know that the people around him are pretty shady and not in his best interest.”