Hulk Hogan's wife, Sky Daily Hogan, broke her silence for the first time following the wrestler's death. "I wasn’t ready for this…and my heart is in pieces," she wrote in part on Instagram on July 25.

Inside Hulk Hogan's scandals and controversies inside and out of the wrestling ring through his decades in the public eye, before his death on Thursday, July 24 at age 71.

Hogan then pursued legal action, filing a whopping $100M civil lawsuit against the media company. In a landmark 2016 verdict, a Florida jury sided with Hogan, finding that Gawker Media had breached his privacy by releasing the tape, resulting in a staggering $140M award for the wrestler.