Hulk Hogan In Tears During Good Morning Interview

"Oh my gosh, please forgive me. Oh, my gosh, Please forgive me. I'm a nice guy. I'm not the Hulk Hogan that rips his shirt off and bang, bang, bang, slams giants. I'm Terry Bollea, I'm a normal man." That's what WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan said during his first major interview with Amy Robach on ABC's Good Morning America on Monday. Hogan was fired by WWE last month over racist comments he made that were on a tape from nearly a decade ago. Hogan explained what happened back in 2006 when the sex tape was recorded and he made his racist comments that got him in so much trouble: "I was at the lowest point in my life to the point that I wanted to kill myself. And I was very mad at my daughter for really no reason. I was upset over a situation that happened between her and her boyfriend, and I had no idea that I was being taped." He even said he was suicidal during that period of his life, which is something he has said before too. Since then, he's remarried and has moved on from his problems.

Hogan denied being a racist, "I'm not a racist. I never should have said what I said. It was wrong." He added that the "N" word was something he grew up with: "Where I grew up was South Tampa and it was a really rough neighborhood, very low income, and all of my friends, we would greet each other saying that word. The word was just thrown around like it was nothing." Hogan said it was "devastating" when WWE fired him because it's like they are trying to erase everything he did in his career. The interview ended with Hogan issuing this statement: "Just because a person makes a mistake, just don't throw them away, because you don't throw good people away. If everybody at their lowest point was judged on one thing they said and all of a sudden your whole career was wiped out today because of something you said ten or twenty years ago, it would be a sad world. People get better every day. People get better." To close the segment, Robach said Hogan would love to get back to WWE and that he's also going to raise awareness for the impact of racial slurs. He sounded sincere to me, but it's going to take time for WWE to look past this and it may be years for WWE to welcome him back if they do at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxQeScQE9TQ