Born, Terry Gene Bollea on August 11, 1953, the former WWF wrestling champion describes in his book how he once came ‘damn close’ to suicide after a night at a club. Ingesting a cocktail of Xanax and rum, he picked up a gun and even fingered the trigger, but an opportune call from his ‘Gladiators’ co-star Laila Ali brought him back from the edge.
The wrestler now admits that near-fatal night in December of 2007 was the start of a long-overdue wake-up call. The combined effect of “going to a club, drinking, getting all that attention from girls,” then coming back to a dark, empty home filled with only the ghosts of his now defunct marriage nearly depressed him to death.
Hogan believes that Linda, who is now his ex-wife after 23 years was the source of his torment, “Linda’s spending time with a 19-year-old boy – In the house that I pay for,” he writes.
