Hulk Hogan’s funeral noticed the late wrestler’s mates, household, and former colleagues collect to pay their last respects, however his daughter, Brooke Hogan, was notably not in attendance. Given their relationship on the time of Hulk’s passing, that may have some considering her absence was a snub. Nonetheless, the other is true, and the previous actuality star shared through social media that selecting to not attend the funeral was her means of honoring her father and what she believed he would have needed. 

Brooke opened up about not attending the service in a touching Instagram publish. “My father hated the morbidity of funerals. He did not need one,” she started her caption. For that cause, she continued, “I needed to make my very own resolution to honor him the most effective and most real means I knew how … privately … the best way that made me really feel the closest to him.” Brooke went on to share that she, her husband Steven Oleksy, and their youngsters had spent the day on the seashore in his honor. “Daddy, we honored you within the easiest wat that agreed with my soul … Each grain of sand and each wave jogged my memory of being your seashore child, and introduced us nearer to you,” she wrote. 

It bears mentioning that regardless of Brooke having determined in opposition to going to the funeral herself, she actually did not begrudge those that did. Quite the opposite, her publish started with a be aware that she understood why others felt it was essential. “I do know individuals grieve in some ways,” she acknowledged, earlier than including that it had been particular for her to see the outpouring of affection her late father obtained. “I am so grateful for all of the celebrations and occasions organized to honor him,” Brooke mentioned. 

Instagram wasn’t the one place Brooke Hogan addressed her dad’s stance on funerals. The day of the service, she additionally referred to as in to “The Bubba the Love Sponge Present” and talked about that it had come up in a dialog they’d had forward of her wedding ceremony to Steven Oleksy. 

Talking on the podcast, Hulk Hogan’s solely daughter shared that she’d requested him to stroll her down the aisle — and that he was the one particular person she’d requested to be there. Nonetheless, she defined that he’d mentioned no. “He goes, ‘I do not — nope, I do not do weddings, I do not do funerals anymore.'” Brooke added that when she requested if he’d contemplate making an exception simply as soon as, she was nonetheless met with a powerful no, although he reiterated that they’d his blessing even when he wasn’t there himself. “‘You possibly can’t get me to depart the seashore,’ you already know, was his factor,” she mentioned. 

In gentle of Hulk’s aversion to funerals and option to spend his days on the seashore as an alternative, Brooke’s sendoff actually is a becoming one — and he or she addressed that in her Instagram publish. “The one factor lacking right now was him in [his] pop up garden chair watching the waves … and the sundown,” she penned. There is no fallacious or proper approach to grieve, nevertheless it’s clear Brooke is dedicated to honoring her dad as she knew him, and we’re wishing her nothing however peace.