Pamela Anderson subtly revealed the naked truth about her relationship with Liam Neeson.
The Baywatch actress—who shared many sweet moments with her costar while on The Naked Gun press tour—explained that she has no interest in doing anything in her personal life to gain publicity, thus shutting down any speculation that their romance was just a stunt.
"I do not and will never feed into PR stunts," she said onstage at the Deauville American Film Festival in France on Sept. 5, per People. "That would be a death sentence. I'm authentically driven. I'm superstitious when it comes to love. And I'm not comfortable sharing any shred of my romantic life."
Although Pamela, 58, said she doesn’t play up her personal relationships as a marketing tactic, she understands why audiences may have seen her chemistry with Liam, 73, on full display on the red carpet.
"I know I'll fall in love again and again onscreen. That is my job. If we do it well, you will feel it, a kind of projection. It is the greatest compliment," she continued. "So please think positive. And I appreciate your good wishes. There are no silly games being played. I'm sincere."
And while the Last Showgirl actress shared her gratitude toward those who have spoken positively about their dynamic, she made sure the audience knows she's not playing around.
"Do not mistake my kindness for weakness or my boldness for bitterness," she stated. "I'm here on this journey, not for money or for fame, but to see what I'm made of in truth, hard work and to leave behind an honest legacy my family can be proud of."
Last month, Pamela hinted at her rumored romance with Liam while celebrating the premieres of their new film as well as her stage production of Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real in Williamstown, Mass.
“What a week it’s been… there’s so much love in the air," she wrote on her Instagram Story Aug. 4. “Seeing you all at the premieres, in theatres, and at the play on Williamstown has truly filled my heart."
She continued, "Thank you for all your love, laughter, and for showing up—it means the world to me.”
And love seemed to be in the air the day prior, when the pair had heartwarming things to say about each other on Watch What Happens Live, when host Andy Cohen asked them each the sweetest trait about the other.
“Oh boy,” Pamela said, “just that he’s so kind and generous.”
For the Taken actor, he said, “Her spirit. And she’s a giggler like me, and I love that.”
For a look back on more of Pamela's relationships over the years, keep reading.
Scott Baio
The Happy Days star was linked to a slew of models and actresses in his heartthrob heyday—a pattern examined more closely in his reality series Scott Baio Is 45... and Single—and he dated Pamela Anderson right after she was named Playboy's Playmate of the Month for February 1990. They met at the Playboy Mansion, in fact, and Anderson's first-ever acting credit is a guest spot on Charles in Charge.
Bret Michaels
Anderson's first major romance with a rocker was in the 1993-1994 realm when she met Michaels—and he really tried to get in good with the whole family.
"One of her mom's favorite bands was the Beach Boys, so I called up John Stamos, who played drums occasionally for the band," he told Blender in 2009. "I said, 'John, can you put the mom on the side of the stage?' So he does—they even let her go out and sing with the Beach Boys. The next day, Pamela goes, 'My mom really doesn't like you very much.' I'm thinking, 'What the f--k?' The mom really didn't like the rocker thing or the way I looked—Pamela had never dated a rocker before. I think that played a big part in the relationship."
Jon Peters
Anderson briefly lived with the prolific producer of films such as Caddyshack, The Color Purple and A Star Is Born in the 1990s and they remained close friends.
Tommy Lee
The Baywatch star married Motley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee on Feb. 16, 1995. They met at a Beverly Hills club four days before saying "I do" on the beach in Cancun, the bride in a white bikini. Their love story was so much of a whirlwind, the groom's previous paramour learned it was over for good when she heard about his nuptials on the news. Anderson had "TOMMY" inked on her ring finger upon their return to L.A.
The highlights of their passionate but destructive three-year marriage, which was Lee's third, are easily their two sons, Brandon Thomas Lee, born June 5, 1996, and Dylan Jagger Lee, born Dec. 29, 1997. However, Lee was arrested for spousal battery and subsequently served six months in jail sentence. In 2002, Anderson revealed she had contracted hepatitis C from sharing tattoo needles with her husband. (In 2015, she said they were both free of the disease after undergoing treatment.)
"I picked her up many times from her lawyer's office and flew her up with her kids and hid her out in Aspen for a month because the guy was beating her up," Peters recalled to The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, referring to her tumultuous time with Lee. "But she made it through. She raised the kids. She's got money. She's got a career."
And, of course, there was the sex tape, recorded early in their union on a houseboat during an excursion to Lake Mead, that was stolen from their Malibu home and leaked into the world.
"We filmed everything… we were naked all the time," Anderson recalled on Piers Morgan's Life Stories in 2018. In the 2001 Motley Crüe biography The Dirt, Lee lamented, "Pamela and I got busy having kids so quickly that we never gave ourselves a chance to build a solid relationship. I asked her much later, 'Why didn't we work on our relationship more?' 'We couldn't,' she replied. 'I was pregnant the whole time.'"
Not to mention tangled up in litigation, the couple filing a $10 million lawsuit in 1996 to stop others profiting from distribution of the tape, which they had stashed in a safe and didn't even know was missing until the previous Christmas. But, hard copies of the home movie having already penetrated the public sphere and Penthouse having reported on all the details, they eventually signed the copyright over in 1997.
They continued to see each other after she filed for divorce in 1998, their physical attraction never being the issue. They talked of remarrying, but by 2000 had settled into seeing other people.
Kelly Slater
In The Dirt, Lee recalled finding out while he was in jail that Anderson was dating her old Baywatch costar Kelly Slater, who was part of the cast from 1992 to 1993.
"I learned a lot," the world champion surfer demurely reflected to Metro News in 2011. "I don't have any ill feelings toward her. I wish her well. Hey, we had an amazing time together."
Marcus Schenkenberg
After splitting up with Lee (again), Anderson dated the Calvin Klein model for the last half of 2000, reportedly after seeing him rescue a bird who had fallen into a Monaco toilet. They shot an ad campaign for Iceberg clothing and he guest starred on her show V.I.P. before they called it quits.
Kid Rock
Anderson boarded the Kid Rock roller coaster in 2001 and their first engagement was announced in April 2002 after the "Bawitdaba" singer popped the question in Las Vegas.
Anderson got off the ride in 2003.
Tommy Lee
In 2005, Lee told People, "We're crazy in love. We're going to take things slowly and see where they go."
Kid Rock
But in 2006, Anderson was back on the Kid Rock train, the two of them embarking on a raucous wedding parade, tying the knot four times. In November of that year, however, the V.I.P. star shared she had suffered a miscarriage.
That same month, she filed for divorce after four months of holy matrimony, citing irreconcilable differences. "I'm moving on. … I feel like I'm finally free. … I'm in love," she shared on her website. "I'm happy. … I see the light. … Sounds dramatic, but it's true."
And they never spoke again after that was settled in 2007.
"He's the only person I don't talk to," Anderson told Elle in 2014. "We blew it, and the kids suffered."
On CBS Sunday Morning in 2012, Kid Rock said he "wouldn't have gone in like that" if he didn't think their marriage could've gone the distance. But he had since learned that "if you touch a hot stove and get burnt, don't touch it anymore." With Anderson, he explained, he had taken "both hands and held 'em there for, like, an hour. I don't even go near the stove anymore!"
Though it seems as though they would've had their share of issues anyway, legend has it that their marriage was never the same after Anderson was carried away by Sacha Baron Cohen, who seems to enjoy crediting the actress' cameo in 2006's Borat for the hasty end to her and Kid Rock's union.
In 2019, Cohen said on the Daily Beast's The Last Laugh podcast that he texted Anderson after the film's screening to ask her how it went, he said, and she replied, "'He's getting divorced.' I was like, 'why?' And she goes, 'The movie.'
"And I thought it was a joke," the British actor recalled, "but then a few weeks later they got divorced and they put as a reason for divorce, Borat."
Rick Salomon
Anderson got right back into the game, however, marrying professional poker player Rick Salomon—who had previously been married to Shannen Doherty but who was far more notorious for co-starring in Paris Hilton's sex tape—in 2007.
Before they could get too far into the weeds with that, the union was annulled after five months, so though there was a quickie wedding the transaction counts as neither a marriage nor a divorce.
"He was just always there, and I was like, you're always here," Anderson recalled to Elle of the decision to just marry him one night in Vegas in between shows at Planet Hollywood serving as Dutch illusionist Hans Klok's assistant.
Tommy Lee
Almost always in the wings, however, was Lee. The 1990s-era wild ones gave it another go in 2008, with Lee telling Rolling Stone, "Pamela and the kids have moved in with me. It's awesome, man. It's definitely working. You can tell on the kids' faces—they're happy when we're together."
That arrangement lasted until 2010, when they split up for good. The musician went on to date singer Sofia Toufa and then Vine star Brittany Furlan, who he married in 2019.
Asked about their intense love affair that lasted for the better part of 15 years, Anderson told People in 2015, "There was Tommy and then there was nobody else. He was the love of my life. We had a wild and crazy beginnings that was too much for both of us." But, she continued, "It really was love at first sight," and their kids were "grateful to be born out of true love. Everything else I was trying to piece together."
She and Lee were "good friends," she stressed, and and were getting better at co-parenting after their nasty custody battle of the early '00s. "He's such a supporter of mine and I'm really happy we're on such great terms...There's a connection there that will always be."
Rick Salomon
Talking to Elle about what a weird move it was to marry Salomon back in 2007, she said, "Yeah, at that time it was a bad idea. But I love Rick. I love him to this day. And my kids love Rick. Out of everybody I know—as crazy as he is—I trust him the most." (In 2013 she had told Ellen DeGeneres they were "friends with benefits.")
So much so, that she had married him again by the time the article was published in March 2014. She filed for divorce that July, though—but then pulled the petition a month later.
"It's a real marriage. It has its ups and downs," she told People in September 2014. "I think we're doing fine." Anderson filed for divorce again in February 2015, and that time it was for good.
Vladimir Putin
Anderson, who visited the Kremlin in 2015 to discuss wildlife protections with Putin's chief of staff, didn't flat deny in her 2018 sit-down with Piers Morgan that she and the divorced Russian president may have had a bit of a thing.
"I wrote to [Putin] and asked him to stop the importation of seal products," she said, giggling. "So he did. He made it actually illegal to import seal products into the country."
As Morgan pressed her to confirm whether she'd actually spent time with the autocrat in person, she said vaguely, "Obviously we've been in the same place together, uh, sometime." But she insisted, "Lets not go any further with this one."
Julian Assange
Whether or not they ever moved past the friends stage, considering the WikiLeaks founder was holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid being arrested, Anderson was inspired by the polarizing Australian.
"We talk about everything," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. "We talk about the Bible, we talk about what's happening with my kids, what's happening with his family. It's not just about politics, even though I do take a lot of notes and it's so overwhelming, the information he gives me."
After spending seven years at the embassy, Assange was arrested in April 2019 and Anderson visited him behind bars, remaining one of his most outspoken champions
In 2020 Assange's lawyer, Stella Moris-Smith Robertson, revealed she's had two children with him since their relationship turned romantic in 2015. Asked how she felt about the high-profile female visitors he had, she told The Australian, "I'd rather have them reporting about Pamela visiting than stories about me being pregnant. And it allowed Pamela to go on TV and she is very articulate."
Adil Rami
She may have been publicly supporting Assange, but in 2018 the then-50-year-old was living with the 32-year-old French soccer player in Marseille.
"He's not a part of that [celebrity world]," she told The Hollywood Reporter of the athlete. "That's the best part."
But in June 2019 she shared it was all over.
"The last (more than) two years of my life have been a big lie," she wrote on
Instagram, noting that she had been "scammed" and that he was "living a double life."
"He called those men monsters," she wrote. "But this is worse. He lied to all."
In his own post, Rami said he maintained a relationship with the mother of his two children, Sidonie Biemont, but there was no gross deception on his end.
"Pamela is someone whole, who I respect, who has convictions and who is sincere in her struggles and for whom my love was always sincere," he wrote in French, per ETOnline. "I am simply determined to preserve a lasting relationship with my children and their mother, Sidonie, for whom I have a deep respect. It's true that I should have being more transparent in this relationship. I take responsibility."
Jon Peters
Peters came back into the picture in a surprising way in 2020.
"I was in India and I went to this panchakarma cleanse, and I'd been gone for three weeks in this ayurvedic center, meditating, just so clear," she told The New York Times in May of that year. "I came back and VWOOM, within 24 hours, I saw Jon. It was like this little whirlwind thing, and it was over really quick."
"We're all wounded people," added Anderson, who in recent years has opened up about suffering traumatic sexual abuse as a child. "And I'm a big believer in fate, destiny, all those crazy things. So I just—there's something about knowing somebody for so long and thinking, 'Oh!' ."
Page Six reported that Peters paid off almost $200,000 in bills, but he later denied commenting on the matter, telling the Ladysmith Chemainus Chronicle, "I've loved this kid since she was 20 years old. I still love her. We're friends. We'll always be friends. I helped her in a way that she needed, but it's between her and I."
Anderson also told the Chronicle, "I don't need anyone to pay my bills," but confirmed he wrote her a check for $100,000.
"I hope he's doing OK, actually, during this whole crisis," she told the Times, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic, "because I want to make sure he's healthy and... But I'm not in touch with him."
Dan Hayhurst
Apparently feeling quite safe and protected, Anderson married her bodyguard on Dec. 24, 2020, at her house on Vancouver Island. The pair had grown closer while socially distancing from others during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Pamela is over the moon and feels more at home than ever before," a source told E! News about the nuptials. "This is really such a full-circle moment and return to her roots. They are actually both natives to Vancouver Island. They are splitting their time between Malibu and her family home in Vancouver. Spending time during quarantine has been cathartic for them both."
On Jan. 20, 2022, E! News confirmed the pair had separated. "When you live with someone and spend all this time with them, for the better part of two years, you get to really know them inside and out, for better and for worse," said a source close to the pair. "There was no straw that broke the camel's back. He is not the man she hoped he was."