Hulk Hogan‘s daughter has sensationally shared wild conspiracy theories about his death, with a friend of the wrestling icon seemingly accusing the authorities of foul play.
Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, died on July 24 from a cardiac arrest, according to a Florida medical examiner’s office.
The 71-year-old had previously had leukemia and atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm, the report from the District Six Medical Examiner also said.
But in response to an Instagram post publicizing an article by radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge that reads ‘Quick cremation without autopsy raises questions about Hulk Hogan’s death’, Hogan’s daughter Brooke posted ‘exactly’.
Bubba’s allegations include that Hogan’s body has already been cremated, somebody could have injected something into the wrestler’s dialysis port while he slept to induce a heart attack and questions around why an autopsy wasn’t carried out.
Bubba, whose real name is Todd Clem, also references the fact that Hogan’s wife Sky Daily has links to Scientology and pointed out that Hogan has an estate that he claims to be worth in the region of $40million to $50m.
Clem did not offer facts to substantiate his stunning claims, which stem from a report in the Tampa Bay Times from July 31 that says Hogan was ‘doing therapy’ when he collapsed at his home in Clearwater Beach on July 24.
The report says paramedics told staff at Morton Plant Hospital that Hogan had just returned home from surgery and was ‘currently waiting to start dialysis’. Clem claims nobody knew the wrestling icon was due to begin dialysis.
In a bid to revive him, medics reportedly gave Hogan drugs that can treat excessive levels of potassium, a sign of kidney failure. These can lead to cardiac arrest.
Hogan was also given two milligrams of Narcan, the drug that can quickly reverse opioid overdoses. There is no indication that Hogan had overdosed.
However, The Tampa Bay Times also revealed the Pinellas County Medical Examiner did not perform an autopsy on Hogan because his death was not deemed to be suspicious.
‘There were no signs of foul play or suspicious activity,’ Maj. Nate Burnside of the Clearwater Police Department also told reporters.
According to his death certificate, Hogan is going to be cremated at the Bay Area Crematory in Clearwater. A specific date for that has not yet been announced.
A spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office confirmed a request for cremation on July 31, telling Page Six: ‘I’m not aware of when Mr. Bollea will be cremated, only that we’ve received a request for cremation approval.’
Bubba and Hogan had a complex relationship. The wrestler was the best man at Bubba and wife Heather’s wedding, but was then filmed having sex with her in 2012.
In 2016, a Florida jury awarded Hogan $115million and an additional $25million in punitive damages in a lawsuit against Gawker Media because it obtained and posted an excerpt of video of his sexual encounter with Heather. The jury agreed with Hogan’s claim that the post violated his privacy.
Hogan ended up settling the case for millions less after Gawker filed for bankruptcy.
‘I’m heartbroken to hear of Terry’s passing,’ Bubba told TMZ after Hogan’s death.
‘As everyone knows, we had our issues, and those issues were mostly my fault. I loved him as a friend while he was with us and will continue to love his memory as a friend going forward.’
Brooke, meanwhile, was estranged from both of her parents for years before he passed and she has taken herself out of her father’s will.
She phoned into Bubba’s Twitch stream on Tuesday and, when asked for her thoughts on some of his theories, said: ‘I do think it’s weird that no autopsy was performed.
‘Because yes you can have a heart attack, but what was the reason for the heart attack? If he was up and doing breathing exercises then that means the surgery on his heart was a success and it was working.
She also added that ‘the leukemia out of nowhere hits me as BS’ and insisted she never knew of that diagnosis.
Brooke continued: ‘I would be surprised if a surgeon would work on someone with leukemia or a high blood cell count and not do further investigations. I told my dad “put cameras in your house because one of these b******* could push you down the stairs and nobody would ever know”.’
She also claimed she told her late father not to marry Sky because of his concerns about her links to Scientology.
In an emotional interview where Brooke fought tears at the beginning, she was asked about her relationship with Sky and Scientology.
‘That’s a loaded question,’ Brooke said. ‘He told me he’s never getting married again. She’s (Sky) nice, and she’s cool (at the beginning), and, you know, I don’t really want to go into too much detail about our conversations, but he was saying, you know, “She’s pushing the marriage thing real hard”.
‘And I said, “Well, Dad, you don’t have to do what you don’t have to do, you know.” Blame it on me.’
She claims that her father was fearful about ending things with Sky, alleging that he said: ‘Well, if I broke up with her, it’d be really bad.’ And I said “What do you mean?” And he goes, “I don’t want to get into it”, you know, whatever.’ That was the first thing where I was like “what the hell? Why would he say that?”
It was then that Brooke learned about Sky’s links to Scientology. She continued: ‘Somebody brought it to our attention that she was a Scientologist. She said she was a Scientologist but she said she left. I started digging a little bit deeper. I don’t know much about Scientology at all so, I’m just telling you what my digging did. She’s still in good standings.’
Speaking about why she removed herself from Hogan’s will, Brooke added: ‘I said to take me off everything, I didn’t want to be a part of this. I was sobbing when I sent the message to Terry McCoy, the guy who manages his money.
‘If Sky is a Scientologist, which apparently she is still in good standings, she said she left, it is 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’s a very powerful backing.
‘I don’t want to fight Linda (her mother), 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. It was never about money.’
