New York, NY - July 10th, 2008 - Brooke Hogan, daughter of American Gladiator co-host Hulk Hogan speaks to INSIDE EDITION about her upcoming VH1 reality show Brooke Knows Best and the turbulent year her family has had.

The Hogan family is facing problems after the success of the reality show Hogan Knows Best, from which Brooke Hogan's show will spin-off. Her brother Nick was convicted in May of this year for reckless driving when he crashed his vehicle, critically injuring his passenger John Graziano. Linda Hogan filed for divorce from husband Hulk Hogan in November, 2007.

Hogan tells INSIDE EDITION she is currently estranged from her mother.

Hogan: "I don't really know what my mom's motive is right now.  I'm not talking to her right now.  I see her at the jail visitations.  It's really hard because I need my mom right now more than ever.  I just broke up with my boyfriend, I'm dealing with not having my brother, I mean it's just a whole bunch of stuff that I really wish I could just call my mom and talk to her and I don't have that."

Hogan: "She used to be my hero...Now she's making all the wrong decisions and it's really hurting me because I just don't understand it...I don't agree with what is going on and I don't condone it."

Hogan: "I'm like, ‘Why do I have to be the mommy?'...I don't want to be the mom. I want to be the kid."

Hogan tells INSIDE EDITION she can not even comment on her mother dating someone younger than herself.

Hogan: "I do not have any words for that...I know if I was her age I would not be doing that, but people have different motives and people have different reasons for doing things that they do.

Hogan also speaks with INSIDE EDITION about the turbulent year her family has had.

Hogan:  "It has been really tough....When my brother went to jail, that was probably the worst time in my life because we're like twins.  We spend every minute together."

Hogan tells INSIDE EDITION her brother has been threatened while incarcerated.

Hogan: "He's doing a lot better. They put him in general population now with kids his own age and he's doing good.  He's been threatened a couple of times but thank God he's like 6'3" and he can hold his own."

Hogan tells INSIDE EDITION her brother Nick will not be part of her new reality show.

Hogan: "It's humiliating enough...I think just out of respect for my brother I think I just didn't even want to go there."

Hogan: "He's still innocent inside so I'm like, ‘Nicky don't change, don't be influenced by those kids in there.'"

Hogan also speaks with INSIDE EDITION about the widely criticized phone conversations between her father and brother regarding John Graziano.

Hogan: "I know that my brother and my dad and my mom and I all love John...I mean he spent most of his life since he was 15 or 16-years-old at our house.  My mom would have to remind him to check in with his own mother."

Hogan: "I think my dad was just talking like a father...When my brother was in solitary confinement he was going crazy.  So, in that situation when you're a parent you kind of panic and you say anything to relieve them of that stress."

Hogan also revealed to INSIDE EDITION that Playboy called her.

Hogan: "I was like, ‘Dad, I know that this is like a really weird question but Playboy called. What do you think about that'...He just was like, ‘Well, I don't want you doing it.'  He is kind of over protective and he doesn't like the scandalous pictures and stuff."

Hogan also speaks with INSIDE EDITION about her once strained relationship with her father and their reconciliation.

Hogan: "The one thing that makes me respect somebody is truth, when they tell the truth.  So instead of hiding what happened, instead of being scared or not talking to me, he came forward to me. He was like, ‘Look this, this and this happened. You know I love you.  It was a weird time. I just want to tell you the truth.'  That can do wonders for me.  If somebody just tells me the truth then I'm fine."

Hogan  tells INSIDE EDITION what she thinks about her father's new girlfriend, Jennifer McDaniel, who is 20 year's his junior.

Hogan: "She's very nice.  She's really sweet.  She's actually a really good influence and a good support system right now."

Hogan tells INSIDE EDITION what she believes the biggest misconception is about her family.

Hogan: "All these people have been making my family look like we're mean people and we're just being horrible to the Grazianos and all this stuff...We are so not like that."

Hogan also tells INSIDE EDITION why she chose to do another reality show, even after her father has cited their previous reality show as a major factor in the breakdown of his marriage. 

Hogan: "I don't think a reality show can ruin anything....I think it just put more pressure on the situation."

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