After being friends for more than 96 hours, Home Improvement and Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue rocker Tommy Lee eloped on the beach in Mexico in 1995.
Their relationship lasted three years, and during that, the couple was a victim of scandals that ranged from leaked sex tapes to a domestic conflict which led to Lee’s six-month sentence in prison for abuse of a spouse. However, they shared plenty of good times as well.
Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee Meet
In the mid-90s, Anderson was a staple of the Baywatch series, appearing in five of the show’s first 11 seasons. Lee and Lee were in the same circles, as The New York Post reported, and they eventually met on New Year’s Eve in 1994 in a nightclub on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip called Sanctuary. In an interview Anderson gave in 1995 to Movieline back in 1995, Anderson states that the relationship started with him holding her hand and kissing her face. Her reaction? “I believed Anderson was a cool, friendly, and nice person. I gave him my contact number.” In his autobiographical memoir about the group, The Dirt, Lee writes about his time with friends the night before, “popping E, drinking champagne, and fucking around like madmen,” before he noticed Anderson. Lee confirms that Anderson was licking him.
Jon Peters (2020)
In January 2020, Pamela and Jon, a producer on A Star Was Born, were married in a private ceremony held in Malibu, Calif., her representative told E! News and added, “They love each other very much.” Then, 12 days later, the actress revealed they had parted ways.
“The warm reception has moved me to Jon and my union,” Pamela stated in an email to E! News. “We would be very grateful for your support as we take time apart to re-evaluate what we want from life and one another. Life is a journey, and love is a process. With that universal truth in mind, we have mutually decided to put off the formalization of our marriage certificate and put our faith in the process.”
In September 2020, Pamela tweeted a link to an article on her new love affair in her guard. She wrote, “Pamela Anderson never got engaged with Jon Peters – it was simply a strange meal … not marriage nor divorce. …”
Pamela Anderson Wore a White Bikini At Her Beach Wedding to Tommy Lee
The past was when entertainment news stories covered the scandalous actions that were the pranks of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. Their romance was brought back to the forefront when the show was launched. Emmy award-winning Hulu shows Pam & Tommy. The show concentrates on the beginning of their relationship, with particular attention paid to their open sex tapes and divorce procedures. The second episode offers glimpses of Anderson and Lee’s beach wedding in the summer of 2005, when the Baywatch actor wore a white bikini.
Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee’s Divorce
Although Lee states that Lee and Anderson had a great time and were “so f*cking happy,” Lee admits that “nobody thought it would work, but it did for a while.” At this time, the couple was surrounded by scandal and heartbreak. As per The Dirt, Anderson suffered an unplanned pregnancy shortly after the wedding ceremony, and the paparazzi continued to target the couple.
The couple split in 1998 after three years of marriage. They have two children: Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee. During their marriage, Lee was arrested for domestic abuse and later jailed. As The New York Times reported, Anderson altered the tattoo to read “Mommy” after they split. A decade later, in 2009, Anderson Lee and Lee publicly declared their reunion; however, they did not remarry.