Brooke Hogan (Brooke Oleksy) has taken to social media to respond to the issues and accusations raised by her mother in her own post yesterday. In doing so, she has claimed she was abused as a child.
Hogan explained that her fading away from the public spotlight in recent years has been intentional.
“I try very hard to ignore issues surrounding my family, in hopes I might have peace in my life. Sadly, I’ve intentionally made myself smaller in my professional career in music and TV; simply to dodge the public negativity surrounding my family that has continuously and relentlessly overshadowed anything I do. If it were just me, I would continue to take the hits and shrink even smaller to avoid the dangers of speaking publicly. But I have my own family now and it’s affecting more than just me at this point,” she wrote on Instagram stating that she was sent the video her mother posted yesterday.
“That has made me feel the need to address the tip of a very large iceberg that is my immediate family. What little I am addressing does not even scratch the surface of what I’ve dealt with my entire life,” she continued.
Hogan stated that her heart breaks for her mother and that she indeed has been through a lot of trauma and pain.
“You can’t control how others treat you, but you can control how you treat others and cope with things,” she wrote.
Hogan explained that there are different reasons why she doesn’t speak to her parents.
“This decision was made based purely on how they have each dealt with me directly my entire life,” she said.
Hogan then revealed that she experienced growing up.
“What I’m about to say is not pointed at either person. And is in no particular order when it comes to who did what. It is my own personal truth, and you can do your own math. I have been EXTREMELY verbally and mentally abused since childhood. Sadly, it would frequently turn physical. And sometimes it’s not by the person you would assume, abuse comes in all shapes and sizes. This vicious pattern has robbed me of any sense of self-esteem or confidence I’ve been trained to pretend to have. It took me many years to figure out the things that were seemingly done “for me” really benefited someone else in a greater capacity,” she revealed.
Hogan also says she was manipulated by people she loved.
“Up until adulthood, I’ve received berating and vile text messages, verbal, public reamings with unbelievably hurtful words said to me that cannot be forgotten. I’ve been ASKED to defend poor behavior to the public and have done so out of love. Only to find I was misinformed, manipulated, and lied to. Still to this day I face constant ridicule for those poor decisions of others. I’ve watched others benefit financially off my suffering and embarrassment caused by their selfish behavior. While it caused my life to crumble, I continued to stay strong and silent. I was expected to – and DID forgive massive blows to my career and personal life, nasty behavior, omissions of truth, blatant lies, manipulation, and repetitive errors in hopes of renewing previous family bonds,” she wrote. “I’ve been used as a pawn, a buffer, and been treated like I’m downright stupid too. No child or human should ever experience something like this.”
Hogan says she wants to see the good in them but every time she has wiped the slate clean she has been “disrespected again and again”.
“I’ve repeatedly held my hand out to help them, only to have them pull me into the darkness with them. I’ve set boundaries that were not respected, and at this point, I can truly do no more. So here I am, an adult with a loving husband and two beautiful children of my own. And what I CAN do, is take control. I have been to therapy, I am doing the work. I am breaking the chain. It ends with MΕ,” she wrote. “Cycles must be broken, I feel God has given me the strength and duty to do so. At this point, my husband, my children, and relationship with God is my priority. There have been more than enough chances and reprieve given. It has to stop, it ends now. I will not let the false narrative continue past this point. Please heed my warning-I am CHOOSING peace. But do not mistake my kindness- or silence for weakness,” she wrote.
She concluded with: “Life is so precious. I want so much to be able to enjoy what’s important…my children and my life I have worked so hard to create and protect-and I hope everyone can give me the chance to do that without injecting any more poison into it.”
Hogan is married to Steven Oleksy, a former NHL player, and they recently welcomed twins, Oliver Andrew Oleksy and Molly Gene Oleksy in January of this year into their family.
Top Photo: Brooke Oleksy, Instagram.
