Hulk Hogan "hit rock bottom" and contemplated suicide after splitting from his wife Linda.
The wrestling legend made the confession in an interview for his new Netflix documentary, Hulk Hogan: Real American, which took place shortly before his death in July 2025 at the age of 71 with Hulk - real name Terry Bollea - admitting he began unravelling as his marriage fell apart in the mid-2000s.
In the interview, Hulk claimed the couple's the bitter split left his totally broke, saying: "I went home and I started drinking and you know started eating pills, and I just went down this rabbit hole for a couple days and the next thing I know, I'm sitting in front of my bathroom with a gun in my mouth and not knowing what I was doing.
"I hit rock bottom. I gave Linda 70 per cent of everything because I just didn’t want to ever talk to her again, be with her, I never wanted to see her again.
"So, I gave her everything to get rid of her and after the divorce I had no money. I was broke, and so TNA [Total Nonstop Action Wrestling] saved me."
When asked by the documentary's producers to name a time when he was the happiest, Hulk revealed he still looks back on the early days of his marriage to Linda with fondness.
The pair married in 1983 and Linda - the mother of the wrester's two children Brooke and Nick - filed for divorce in 2007. It was finalised two years later.
Linda also appears in the documentary and she revealed she never stopped loving her ex even after they were divorced and her feelings became clear after Hulk started experiencing health issues.
She said: "I still care about him the same, it doesn’t go away. 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."
The documentary charts Hogan’s life and career, and includes a previously unannounced interview with Donald Trump, 79, filmed at the White House earlier this year.
Director Bryan Storkel told TMZ Sports Hogan played a direct role in arranging the meeting, by contacting the US president personally to secure his participation.
Bryan said: “There’s a nice little surprise interview with Donald Trump, which (Hulk) helped me set up. We went to the White House and interviewed Trump and he talked all about Hulk Hogan.”
He added the process required persistence, explaining it took a few calls for Hulk to convince the president to do the interview, before Trump eventually came around and agreed to sit down for a chat.
Bryan said Hogan had initially planned to attend the interview but was unable to do so due to a medical procedure.
He added: “Hulk was supposed to go with us, but he ended up going in for a surgery right before that.”
Bryan travelled to Washington without him and described speaking to Hogan shortly before meeting Trump.
He said: “I’m there on the phone with Hulk Hogan outside the Oval Office, and he was so excited we got the interview. That’s the last phone call I had with him, actually."
