The Wit and Wisdom of Pamela Anderson

The undisputed queen of the tabloids is on marriage number three and counting

By Kate Torgovnick
Published: Dec 28, 2007
Photography by ©Globe Photos

“I was watching a girlfriend in a fashion show when they first came up to me. I said, ‘No. Are you crazy?’ My boyfriend at the time was furious. So out of spite, I did it.” —on deciding to pose for Playboy

“I’ve never seen an episode of Baywatch. I watched part of one once, and I almost fainted.”

“I met him at a club. It was New Year’s Eve and I bought a shot for everybody. He thought I’d only bought one for him.” —on meeting Tommy Lee

“People are hanging from the trees outside our house. Tommy went out and this guy goes, ‘Listen, if you can get Pamela out of the house, I’ll split the money with you.’” —after their wedding

“It was stolen from our house. We had a lot of videotapes of us running around, a little bit of nudity here and there. They spliced it all together and made it look like we’d created some kind of pornography.” —on the infamous sex tape

“I have two children now instead of three.” —after her first divorce

“There’s a little cult of different people who love that movie. I mean, I know a lot of drag queens who dress up like Barb Wire.”

“The doctor told me, ‘You have a little glitch in your blood work. You have Hepatitis C.’ I said, ‘Okay. How do I get rid of it?’ He said, ‘You can’t. You’re probably going to end up dying from this.’ It wasn’t good bedside manner.”

“I was in St. Tropez, and I would have married the fisherman on the corner. We both wanted a family, we both have kids. But when we were together it just wasn’t a good thing.” —on her whirlwind marriage to Kid Rock

“If there’s a tabloid around, you can’t help but pick it up. If you see something about yourself, you say, ‘God. That’s awful.’ Then you turn the page and you’re like, ‘Oh. I can’t believe so and so is doing that.”

“As soon as I left, meow. They all went after each other." —about Tommy Lee and Kid Rock’s scuffle at the MTV Music Video Awards

“I paid off a poker debt with sexual favors, and I fell in love. It’s so romantic.” —on her courtship with Rick Salomon

(Sources: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Larry King Live, Interview Magazine, TV Guide, The Howard Stern Show)