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Hulk Hogan’s final interview before his tragic death has finally been released in a new Netflix documentary, Hulk Hogan: Real American.
The documentary includes Hogan’s last sit-down interview, filmed before his death last year. In it, the WWE icon is questioned about the death of his brother Alan, who died from an overdose in 1986, and the conversation becomes too painful for him to continue.
In scenes featured in the film, released on Netflix today (April 22), Hogan becomes visibly overwhelmed while speaking about Alan and ultimately asks for the interview to be halted.
“You have to stop, you’re digging way too much for me,” he told production.
Reflecting on their childhood, Hogan said he and Alan “weren’t that close,” and described his brother getting involved with a difficult crowd from a young age.
“By the time he was seven, he was riding with a bunch of bikers,” he explained, adding that Alan ‘got in some trouble here in Florida and he ended up in Oakland, California’.
According to Hogan, the two reconnected after Alan left rehab, and Hogan tried to support him in whatever ways he could.
He also recounted the day he learned Alan had died, noting that his brother had been expected to travel with him to a fight that same day.
Hogan said Alan later told him he couldn’t make the trip and asked for money to cover rent. After Hogan’s flight, he received a phone call informing him that Alan had overdosed and died.
“It was a hard one to get over,” he said.
In another part of the documentary, Hogan acknowledged he had not been truthful about steroid use during a 1994 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, where he denied taking them.
He also said he began using the drugs two years after he finished high school.
Hogan died at 71 at his home in Clearwater, Florida, last July—nearly four decades after his brother’s death.
His cause of death was later confirmed as acute myocardial infarction, more commonly known as a heart attack.
Following his death, his wife Sky Daily shared a tribute online, writing: “He had been dealing with some health issues, but I truly believed we would overcome them. I had so much faith in his strength. I thought we still had more time.
“This loss is sudden and impossible to process. To the world, he was a legend… but to me, he was my Terry. The man I loved. My partner. My heart.”
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