10 Wrestlers Who Escaped Certain Death
4. Hulk Hogan
'The Hulkster's personal peaks and valleys over the past decade have resulted in two alleged suicide attempts, including one famous talk-down as he had his 'finger on the trigger'.
Revealing in his second memoir 'My Life Outside The Ring', Hogan explained that the collected pressures of his son Nick's impending incarceration following a near-fatal car accident and the divorce proceedings with now ex-wife Linda almost convinced him to end it all. Mixing rum and Xanax, he was apparently holding a gun to his head when American Gladiators co-host Laila Ali happened to call. Her kindness on the phone supposedly convinced him life was worth living.
After a successful return to the WWE fold in 2014, Hogan's world again came crashing down, and it hurt inside. A ultimately successful lawsuit against Gawker resulted in private audio being leaked of 'The Hulkster' using a host of racial slurs that again put paid to his cushy ambassador deal with Vince McMahon.
Noting months later that the spell threw him into another battle with depression, Hulk told media outlets that he again contemplated suicide. Asking himself 'What’s the easiest way out of this?', he noted that his faith in God and relationship with new wife Jennifer McDaniel kept him from a fatal finale.