Brooke Hogan is opening up about a painful moment tied to WrestleMania 42 weekend — revealing she never received a direct invite to attend the event honoring her father, Hulk Hogan.
While WWE honored Hulk Hogan in a big way during the entire weekend, Brooke says she was never directly invited to be part of it — and the explanation she eventually got only raised more questions.
During a conversation with Bubba the Love Sponge, the topic came up as Bubba pointed out how visible Hogan’s legacy was at WrestleMania — including appearances by family members and major tributes — before directly asking Brooke if WWE had reached out to her at all.
“Brooke, did WWE reach out to you at any point with all the stuff they’ve been doing over the past couple years? Yeah—like Nick was front and center for WrestleMania and the bronze statue and the whole big hoopla, the respect that they paid your father. Did they ever—did they ever think about—did Triple H ever think about calling you?”
Brooke then explained that while she initially believed she hadn’t been invited at all, she later received a call from Nick Khan — who told her the invitation had actually been passed along through her brother instead of directly to her.
“No. So, I did—I said something on Instagram where I was like, ‘For everybody giving me crap for not being there, like I wasn’t invited.’ And Nick Khan called me personally and said that he extended the invite through my brother. And that was kind of it. So I mean, I would imagine that if I were to be able to go, I would probably have to be invited by Nick.”
The situation didn’t stop there. During the same discussion, it was brought up that she had been told a direct invite would follow:
“He did say he was going to invite you personally moving forward…on the call, which never happened recently.”
But according to Brooke, that never actually happened. That’s where the emotional impact of the situation really became clear.
“It really hurt to see Andre the Giant’s daughter there, you know, because this is the thing—I, right now, at the point in life I’m at, I could not be more disappointed and hurt, and just—what’s the word for just out of gas? Like, I’m just flabbergasted. I just—I have no more tears to cry. Defeated. I have no more gusto in me. And I just—I fought for my dad. The truth is, I fought so hard for my dad until I literally was about to lose myself.”
Her comments paint a picture of someone who felt left out of a major moment tied to her father’s legacy — despite WWE publicly celebrating him on one of its biggest stages.
With WrestleMania 42 now over, Brooke’s account raises questions about how communication was handled behind the scenes — and whether a direct invitation should have been made from the start.
Do you think WWE should have personally reached out to Brooke Hogan for WrestleMania 42, or was passing the invite through her brother enough? Let us know your thoughts.
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