Nick Hogan sure has some good PR people working for him. For a long time it was hard to figure out why he hadn’t hired anyone to help him tame his douchiness. Well, not tame it in terms of his actual personality. Just learn how to hide it from the public, and do a better job of saying what everyone wants to hear. You know, how he actually feels regular human emotions like regret and sadness and thinks about things other than himself. Oh, and the children. He wants to help the children. Radar Online has a new video interview with Nick Hogan where he sort-of apologizes for leaving his friend in a permanent vegetative state after a drunken drag race on a public street – only he does it in a roundabout way by never mentioning what he did, never mentioning his friend by name, and saying that he’s going to start a charity for kids – in which they’ll be drag racing.

With autumn rapidly approaching, Nick Hogan is ready to turn over a new leaf.

Just shy of two years removed from his darkest hour — the August 2007 crash in Florida that left him behind bars, and friend John Graziano badly injured — the 19-year-old son of wrestling legend Hulk Hogan held nothing back about his past, present and future in an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com on Thursday.

“Something I’d want people to know now, is that I’m very sorry about my accident that happened and I feel the most regret in the world over that day, August 25 and I pray everyday over what happened, and everyone that was involved,” Nick told RadarOnline.com reporter Katie Rhames.

It’s been more than 25 years since Hulk Hogan became a household name and worldwide role model to children advising them to train, say their prayers and eat their vitamins. Now, Nick is following in his father’s footsteps in becoming a mentor and role model to kids with KIOTT, an organization he devised while in jail with aims to provide younger people with a safe venue to sow their wild oats behind the wheel.

“What KIOTT is, is an advocacy group I started that takes kids off the streets and puts them in racetracks, just a motivational thing to gets kids to stop doing stupid stuff on the streets.” Nick told RadarOnline.com. “I moved on in a positive way with KIOTT, and trying to do everything I can to give back to the community I took so much away from.”

While Nick candidly admitted that the loneliness he felt during his jail sentence was traumatizing, he said some good came out of the soul searching he did with the extra time he had on his hands.

“While I was in there, I really had a lot of time to think about everything that was going on in my life, and who I am inside,” Nick told Rhames. “At the time with the divorce, there was so much going on I had no control of… I really, really got in touch with what I feel I’m being called to do, and doing the right things and helping other people out.”

[From Radar]

Nick Hogan couldn’t turn over a new leaf if he were an oak tree. Ooooh, snap, arbor humor! I am so confused about his charity thing. He’s really vague, but what it sounds like is Nick is trying to get kids “off the streets” and onto the racetrack. But the problem is he nearly killed his friend John Graziano – who he conveniently never even named in the interview – by drag racing. On the street. So when he says he’s getting kids off the streets, does he mean it in the gang sense? General teenage hooliganism? Or does he mean it in terms of kids that are racing on the streets? He doesn’t say, and if he means it in terms of anything other than getting kids to stop drag racing, then he’s a moron.

Okay a little more research makes it clear the organization Keep It On The Track is indeed aimed at taking kids who want to drag race on the street and putting them on a track instead. And while that’s certainly better than the street, I’d argue that it’s still inappropriate for Nick to be involved with it. He was a track racer when he got in the crash nearly two years ago. It seemed to just fuel his fire and give him more of a drive to race any and everywhere he could. Maybe that’s a desire that’s just there with some people, and if you can steer it to a safer place, great. But it didn’t work for Nick, so he’s really not doing any favors by promoting the organization.

And while he does take some responsibility – finally – it’s way too little and way too late. He should have been crying about this on every show that would have him. Instead he got out of jail and went right back to racing his cars and living his life. There’s no apology I’d accept after two years. Time does not heal all wounds: in fact some grow deeper and are compounded by the fact that it took the person so long to do the right thing. It’s easy to assume Nick is genuine and was young and try to give him another chance. He said some right things. But he’s only saying them because someone smarter than is telling him to. There’s no real remorse there, or it would have been there a long time ago.

Here are Nick and Hulk at Brooke’s birthday party on May 5th in Vegas. Images thanks to WENN.com .