Hulk Hogan Cries Over Racial Slurs: 'Please Forgive Me, I'm a Nice Guy'
Fighting back tears in a new interview with Good Morning America, the legendary WWE star -- whose real name is Terry Bollea -- asked for forgiveness for a leaked 2008 tape, in which he repeatedly uses the N-word among other highly offensive comments.
The remarks were in reference to his daughter, 27-year-old Brooke Hogan, dating a black man at the time.
I'm not a racist. I never should have said what I said. It was wrong," he stressed. "I'm embarrassed by it."
Hogan also said that it's "very fair"
to say he inherited a racial bias from the environment he grew up in.
"People need to realize that you inherit things from your environment," he explained. "And where I grew up was south Tampa, Port Tampa, and it was a really rough neighborhood, very low income.
And all my friends, we greeted each other saying that word. The word was just thrown around like it was nothing."
Hogan called the WWE's decision to remove any mention of him from their website -
- he's no longer listed as a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, and his merchandise can no longer be found at the WWE Shop -- "devastating."
"Everything I've done my whole career and my whole life, was like it never happened
-- like I never existed," he said. "Oh my gosh, it was devastating.
In ET's interview with Brooke, she insisted that her dad "didn't mean" any of the slurs that were caught on tape.
"I feel bad for my dad, but I also feel bad for the African-American fans and stuff because they don't know that he didn't mean it," Brooke said.
"You know, it would be offensive. But this is something that we have to put a stop to everyday, because I'll be honest with you,
I've had a black guy call me a honkey, and I've also been told that white people smell like bologna. I don't take offense to it, I just laughed at it."
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