Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson has named the one man who has been her true love.
Surprisingly, despite their well-documented tumultuous love life, the 55-year-old Playboy cover girl has revealed that her very first husband, Tommy Lee, is the only man she has ever truly been in love with.
In an excerpt from her book Love, Pamela shared with People on Wednesday, the star spoke candidly about her doomed romance with the Mötley Crüe drummer, whom she was married to from 1995 until 1998.
Her other marriages were to Kid Rock from 2006 until 2007, Rick Salomon from 2007 until 2008, and then again from 2014 until 2015, and finally her bodyguard Dan Hayhurst, whom she wed in 2020 and split from in January 2022.
Number one: Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson has named the one man who has been her true love and it is Tommy Lee, her husband from 1995 until 1998
Early look: The 55-year-old Playboy cover girl wrote about her true love in an excerpt from her book Love, Pamela that was shared with People
Despite their many ups and downs – Pamela once told an LA court that her children ‘were not safe’ with Tommy – she now confesses she’s ‘made peace’ with the hell-raiser and is looking back at their relationship more fondly.
‘We just wanted to have babies and be together forever,’ she said of her time with the rocker, with whom she shares two children – sons Brandon, 26, and Dylan, 25.
‘My relationship with Tommy may have been the only time I was ever truly in love,’ she revealed.
However, their relationship suffered a hit when their sex tape was stolen and leaked – which Pamela suggests was the catalyst for why they ultimately split up.
So much love: In her book she gushes over the bad boy of hard rock. ‘We just wanted to have babies and be together forever,’ she said of her time with Mötley Crüe rocker Lee
New look: The excerpt from Pamela’s book was shared with People magazine
She made the tape with drummer Lee, who is now 60, during a 1995 vacation to Lake Mead, a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States.
‘It ruined lives, starting with our relationship — and it’s unforgivable that people, still to this day, think they can profit from such a terrible experience, let alone a crime,’ Pamela shared in her memoir.
And then Tommy became violent, she claimed.
In her book the Stacked actress said that the drummer twisted her arm when they were with their sons.
They were drawn to each other: ‘My relationship with Tommy may have been the only time I was ever truly in love,’ she revealed. Seen in January 1998
Before it all fell apart: But their relationship suffered a hit when their sex tape was stolen and leaked. Seen at the 1999 MTV Video and Music Awards
‘Tommy ripped Brandon off me and threw me and Dylan into a wall,’ she claimed.
She called 911 and Lee was arrested. He reportedly served six months in jail for ‘felony spousal abuse.’
‘The divorce from Tommy was the hardest, lowest, most difficult point of my life,’ Pamela wrote.
‘I was crushed. I still couldn’t believe that the person I loved the most was capable of what had happened that night. We were both devastated, but I had to protect my babies.’
New docu too: She also has a Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story coming out that same day
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On the cover of People it is stated that she has since ‘made peace’ with Tommy.
Lee has been married since 2019 to 36-year-old actress and Vine star Brittany Furlan.
In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning the TV star said that the sex tape she made with Lee was just innocent fun between two happy people.
‘We were two crazy naked people in love,’ she told host Jim Axelrod.
‘I mean, we were naked all the time and filming each other and being silly,’ she added.
But making that tape public was the real problem. ‘Those tapes were not meant for anybody else to see,’ the Barb Wire actress added.
These days she is happy living on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
‘I feel like I’ve left here, did something crazy and came back in one piece,’ Anderson said in the interview with CBS. ‘Like I said, I don’t know what I’m capable of. I still don’t know, but I think that was the beginning… all the rest of it, it’s, you know, behind me. I feel like I’m in a really good place.’
Meanwhile, Pamela’s other marriages were far from perfect.
The star was handed heartbreak with second husband Kid Rock when she announced in 2006 that she had suffered a miscarriage.
Just weeks later, Rock ended the marriage, filing for divorce due to ‘irreconcilable differences.’
It was love: ‘We were two crazy naked people in love,’ she told CBS last week
He later told Rolling Stone magazine that problems started when Pamela was upset that skipped out on seeing her in Canada because he wanted to attend a Los Angeles Lakers game instead.
In 2016, Pamela was forced to slam ex-husband Rick Salomon after he made a series of disturbing allegations against her, calling the actress a ‘serial baby killer.’
Pamela filed for divorce from Rick on Feb. 11 2015, and the following year secured a temporary restraining order against him.
She claimed that Rick had sent her ‘harassing’ text messages and email – where he called her a ‘serial baby killer’ claiming that she had terminated multiple pregnancies.
Pamela’s book comes out January 31, 2023. She also has a Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story coming out that same day.