Nick Hogan was released from a Pinellas County Jail in Florida late last night after serving 166 days of his 8 month jail sentence. 

Nick was picked up by his sister Brooke who embraced him tightly as he left the prison.  "Not seeing him for six months has been really, really hard," Brooke writes on her MySpace page. "He always knows how to make me feel better or make me smile when I need it, and it's been tough without having him there to hug me just at the right time, or crack a joke when I'm havin' a bad day."

She continues, "There have been a lot of supporters and a lot of haters that have come up to me and said things that have helped and things that made me feel like I couldn't make it through another day... Some people wish terrible, terrible things on us and say the most nasty comments that I can't even repeat on here... It really hurts.

"I understand people have their own opinion, but most of the people that come up to us don't know the whole story or how much we really, really love John [the victim]," she says. "It's really sad because we're not bad people. We're just going through a really hard time, and so is John's family."

Nick was sentenced to jail after pleading no contest to reckless driving charges stemming from an August 2007 crash that left his best friend, John Graziano, in critical condition.