"A major turning point came after he slept with my friend Christiane."
Brooke Hogan, in an interview with Us Weekly published Thursday, said her relationship with Hulk Hogan changed after his 2008 affair with Christiane Plante, one of her closest friends at the time.
"I forgive people very easily, sometimes probably too easily, and I forgave him, but something between us changed afterward. I don't think he ever related to me in quite the same way again."
Plante confirmed the relationship to the National Enquirer in 2008, saying it began when Hulk and Linda Hogan "privately knew their marriage was ending." Linda filed for divorce in 2007 after 24 years of marriage; it was finalized in 2009.
Brooke said the divorce changed the family dynamic and that her later estrangement from her father was the only way she could cope. She was not speaking with him when he died in July 2025 and asked to be removed from his will.
"I can love my father profoundly and still tell the truth about where...
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