Hulk Hogan appeared on Good Morning America this morning to defend the controversial remarks he made in a video that leaked last month.
“I’m not a racist,”; he told ABC News. “I never should have said that. It was wrong.”;
Hogan was caught saying “F*cking n*ggers”; on the 2008 tape, causing World Wrestling Entertainment to cut ties with the wrestler. But Hogan now reveals that he was referring to his daughter Brooke Hogan’s then-boyfriend and says that he blames his upbringing; citing growing up using that word on a regular basis.
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“People need to realize that you inherit things from your environment,”; he says. “And where I grew up was South Tampa, Port Tampa, and it was a really rough neighbourhood, very low income. And all my friends, we greeted each other saying that word.”;
The wrestler adds that he was at a low point in his life when he was captured on the tape – something that he hopes people will sympathise with.
“If everybody at their lowest point was judged on one thing they said and let’s just say in high school, you may have said one bad thing and all of a sudden, your whole career was wiped out today because of something you said 10 or 20 years ago, it’d be a sad world,” he says. “People get better every day. People get better.”
