In an episode of "Where Are They Now?" featuring Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea, the former professional wrestler told Oprah Winfrey he contemplated suicide shortly after his reality show ended.
The show aired Nov. 17 with Hogan describing what described his life as "crashing and burning" shortly after the reality show "Hogan Knows Best," was cancelled in 2007 the same time his marriage began to fall apart.
"After the show I kinda hit rock bottom, everything got dark, everything happened at once," he said. "I was drinking alcohol very heavily. It just all kept piling up, it all kept mounting and mounting I didn't know how to handle it."
Hogan confessed contemplating suicide, a state of mind he never thought he'd find himself in.
"I always wondered how could someone possibly take their own life, and so I got to that point where I said, 'You know what, maybe this would be easy. You know, maybe this would be an easy way to fix things.'"
Hulk talked about his experience of having his son, Nick, go to jail after being in a car accident in August of 2007.
Nick lost control of his sports car, injuring himself and his best friend, John Graziano, according to the Huffington Post. He pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to eight months in jail. At the same time, Hogan said his marriage was also going downhill.
Hogan mentioned a turning moment where he realized he needed something different in order to pull himself out of the emotional hole he was in.
"There was incident in Miami on New Year's Eve where I was with my family and a bunch of my friends at a table," he said in the episode, "And there's a bunch of negativity about the food being bad, you know the champagne didn't work, even though it was all consumed. And when I walked outside, some kid ran up and hugged me and was like, 'Oh I grew up watching you. I didn't have a dad, you're like a dad to me.' And there was another person that said 'Hey Hulk, we love you.'"
Hogan said he didn't understand what was going on when it happened but then it hit him that there was "clean air and that there's dirty air," adding he just "got sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Since his divorce with Linda Hogan in 2009 after 24 years of marriage, Hogan married his girlfriend Jennifer McDaniel shortly after in 2010, according to Huffington Post.
"Before, it was always, well you're supposed to be this wrestler, you're supposed to be this husband or father that makes this crazy money and travels and works and does this," Hogan said. "And then I realized all that stuff -- the peace, love, the joy, that still, small voice, the energy, that God presence -- is part of who I'm meant to be."
