Sometimes when celebrities who really love the spotlight appear to be crazy in love, it's easy to think they're just hamming it up. Those red-hot love affairs just get more camera time. But when it comes to the relationship between Pamela Anderson and rocker Tommy Lee, that wasn't the case.
Pamela is opening up about her relationship with Tommy Lee in her new memoir, Love, Pamela. She says there was no pretending. He was really her one true love.
"We just wanted to have babies and be together forever," she writes of the early days with Tommy Lee. Pamela, now 55, recalls that their relationship was incredibly deep. She even says she had never loved like that before and hasn't since.
"My relationship with Tommy may have been the only time I was ever truly in love," she writes.
Pamela and Tommy Lee didn't last. But they did have two children together: Brandon, 26, and Dylan, 25. But their relationship was anything but conventional.
"We had fun," she writes, "and our rule was no rules."
Pamela also opens up about the infamous sex tape, which she says she has still never watched. "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," she writes.
Pamela describes the painful destruction of her and Tommy Lee's relationship. With the stress of the sex tape looming, Tommy Lee became aggressive with her one night. "Tommy ripped Brandon off me and threw me and Dylan into a wall," she writes. She called the police, which led to her husband serving six months in jail. After that, their relationship couldn't be saved.
"The divorce from Tommy was the hardest, lowest, most difficult point of my life," she writes of leaving her husband. "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."
These days, Pamela is single and says she's focused on self-love. "I don't need someone to bring me roses," she told People in a new interview. "I've just planted a hundred rose bushes. I can get them any time I want — and they're my favorite roses."
While she's been married six times, Pamela says that her life alone is "more romantic" than it's ever been. "I light my candles, have my music playing. I have my piano, I'm sure it would be lovely if someone else was in my life and wanted the same thing but I've just never met them. It's usually about catering to them, and there has to be a balance."
