HULK HOGAN'S scandal-scarred life in and out of the wrestling ring once drove him to consider suicide!
In a 2007 memoir, he revealed he was “riddled with personal torment” after wife Linda dumped him.
He said he sat alone in his house for two days, downing Xanax with rum, and then sticking a handgun in his mouth.
“But before pulling the trigger, the phone suddenly rang,” he wrote.
The caller was his then “American Gladiators” co-host Laila Ali, who convinced him not to take his life.
Hulk’s life imploded in a $50 million divorce when Linda accused him of cheating with a close friend of daughter Brooke.
The woman, Christiane Plant, later apologized, telling The ENQUIRER: “I’m terribly sorry for what occurred.”
There was more trouble when his son was involved in a felony car crash in Clearwater, Fla., in 2008 that seriously injured a pal.
Nick was sentenced to eight months in prison.
Hulk faced allegations of steroid use in the early ’90s, and briefly left the grappling game.
But even before the racist scandal, he couldn’t avoid controversy.
In 2011, The ENQUIRER reported Hulk was embroiled in a gay furor following allegations made by a friend of ex-wife Linda.
Barbara Leslie – the estranged wife of Ed “Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake” Leslie – said her husband’s “bromance” with Hulk always struck her as “extraordinarily suspicious.”
“I’ve watched my husband and Hulk interact for the past 20 years, and there have been many times when I felt they were much too close for comfort,” she said.
Hulk, who married second wife Jennifer in 2010, scoffed at the charges.
