Hulk Hogan is ready to talk. Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea , is finally speaking out after a secret recording that showed him making racist remarks was leaked earlier this summer. "I never should have said what I said," he confessed. The former WWE star opened up about the home environment in which he was raised and said that the n-word, which he used repeatedly in the recording while talking about daughter Brooke Hogan 's dating life, was thrown around like it was "nothing." He also said he was infuriated about a situation that happened between Brooke and her boyfriend.