Hulk Hogan’s cause of death is now public, mere weeks after his representatives denied speculation he was severely ill. Hogan, 71, died of a heart attack after suffering from multiple chronic conditions.

Hogan's leukemia diagnosis, a type of cancer affecting white blood cells, had not been publicly disclosed prior to his death.

Brooke Hogan is speaking out following the death of her father, Hulk Hogan, with whom she shared a complicated but loving relationship leading up to his death. In a lengthy, emotional letter posted to Instagram on Tuesday (July 29),