Hulk Hogan thought about taking his own life in 2007.

The wrestling legend hit rock bottom after he began to realise his body couldn't cope with the same ring rigours it used to, his reality TV show 'Hogan Knows Best' reality show - co-starring his wife Linda and children Brooke and Nick - was cancelled and his marriage was heading for divorce.

Speaking on a retrospective television show, he said: "Everything got dark, everything happened at once. I was drinking alcohol very heavily. It just all kept piling up. I always wondered how could someone possibly take their own life, and so I got to that point where I said, 'You know what, maybe this would be easy. You know, maybe this would be an easy way to fix things.' "

That year the former WWE star - real name Terry Bollea - had to support his son Nick after he was jailed for reckless driving after crashing his car, severely injuring his friend John Graziano in the incident.

Hulk couldn't take the "negativity" surrounding him but on one tough night it was the love of his fans that made him realise he could change his life.

He added: "There was incident in Miami on New Year's Eve where I was with my family and a bunch of my friends at a table. And there's a bunch of negativity about the food being bad, you know the champagne didn't work, even though it was all consumed.