By Mallory Mattingly
Brooke Hogan, daughter of the late wrestling star Hulk Hogan, recently reflected on whether her father would be “proud” of her.
“Half of me is like, ‘I can’t believe I’m here.’ I can’t believe that design is what I ended up doing. I wonder if my dad would be proud and be like, ‘This is cool,'” Brooke told her ROCK THE BLOCK partner, HGTV’s Scott McGillivray, for the Season 7 premiere, per PEOPLE. “’Cause I never wanted to take daddy’s money. So when I was building my business, I was really building it with no capital, no help from anybody else.”
Hulk died on July 24, 2025, from an acute myocardial infarction.
Brooke was overcome with emotion when she thought about what he dad would think of her work on the HGTV show.
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“I got called to do ROCK THE BLOCK long before my dad passed. But obviously, I didn’t tell him that I had it because we weren’t talking,” she said as she teared up. “But I told my husband, I was like, ‘I wonder, I wonder if my dad would be proud knowing that I’m doing this.’ You know, ‘I wonder if…'”
She added that her father encouraged her to get her real estate license.
When her father passed away unexpectedly last year, Brooke got candid about how she felt.
“My dad’s blood runs through my veins. His eyes shine through my children. And our bond has never broken, not even in his final moments,” she shared on Instagram. “We had a connection deeper than words, one that spanned lifetimes. I am so grateful I knew the real version of him. Not just the one the world viewed through a carefully curated lens. We shared a quiet, sacred bond, one that could be seen and felt by anyone who witnessed us together. When he left this earth, it felt like part of my spirit left with him. I felt it before the news even reached us.”
“I know he’s at peace now, out of pain, and in a place as beautiful as he imagined. He used to speak about this moment with such wonder and hope. Like meeting God was the greatest championship he’d ever have,” she added.
Brooke then cleared the air due to what the media kept portraying about her and her dad’s relationship.
“We never had a ‘big fight.’ My father and I never ‘fought.’ It was a series of private phone calls no one will ever hear, know, or understand. My father was confiding in me about issues weighing on his heart, both personal and business,” she revealed. “I offered to be a life raft in whatever capacity he needed. I told him he had my support. I begged him to rest, to take care of himself. He had nothing else to prove to the world or anyone.”
It sounds like working on ROCK THE BLOCK gave Brooke a chance to reflect on her journey of independence and her relationship with her dad.
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