Pamela Anderson wishes she was on better terms with ex-husband Tommy Lee.
During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live on January 9, the actress and model discussed her past relationship with Lee, to whom she was married from 1995 to 1998.
“I mean, we used to talk a lot more,” said Anderson, 57. “Not recently, unfortunately, but you know, I wish we did have a better rapport right now.”
Anderson and Lee are parents to two sons, Brandon Thomas, 28, and Dylan Jagger, 27. With Dylan recently getting engaged, Anderson expressed hope for improved relations between her and Lee.
“My youngest son is engaged and we’re gonna have grandkids together,” she said. “It’ll be OK, eventually. It’s just kind of a moment right now.”
The couple started dating in December 1995 and tied the knot just four days later in Cancún, Mexico. Upon returning to the US, Anderson moved in with Lee while his home was under renovation. Unfortunately, an incident involving a stolen sex tape by a disgruntled electrician led to a widely publicized $10 million lawsuit, straining their relationship.
“Not being able to do anything … about [the tape] was adding so much frustration and stress to our relationship,” he said in a 2014 episode of 20/20. “It was just consuming us.”
In 1998, Lee was arrested for felony spousal battery and was sentenced to six months in jail as Anderson filed for divorce. She called her divorce the “hardest, lowest, most difficult point of my life,” in her 2023 memoir, Love, Pamela.
Anderson and Lee briefly reunited after Lee’s release, but the relationship did not last.
In the time since, Anderson has been married four additional times. She and Kid Rock tied the knot in 2006 before getting divorced just a year later. She was then married to professional poker player Rick Salomon twice, from 2007 to 2008 when they had their marriage annulled, then from 2014 to 2015. Anderson married her bodyguard Dan Hayhurst in 2020 and they divorced in 2022.
As for Lee, the Mötley Crüe drummer married actress Brittany Furlan in 2019.
Anderson further explained her feelings toward Lee in her memoir, writing about the importance of having him as a coparent.
“Tommy is the father of my kids and I’m forever grateful,” she wrote. “My relationship with Tommy may have been the only time I was ever in love.”
