Overlook being written within the stars — this love was written within the sand.
Such have been the beachside vows that Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee exchanged in Cancun, Mexico 30 years in the past on Feb. 19, 1995 — simply days after their first date.
The nuptials of the ‘90s icons — the bombshell and the unhealthy boy — have been straight out of a sweeps episode of “Baywatch.”
The Mötley Crüe drummer had secretly adopted Anderson right down to Cancun and shortly made his intentions clear on their first date.
“The first thing he said to me was ‘I’m going to marry you,’” Anderson instructed Larry King in 2002. “And I said, ‘What? No one’s ever said that to me in a first sentence.’”
And certain sufficient, Lee popped the query just some days later.
“That night at a disco called the La Boom, I took off my pinky ring, put it on her finger and asked her to marry me,” he mentioned in Mötley Crüe’s 2001 autobiography “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band.”
“She said yes, hugged me, and stuck her tongue down my throat.”
With the bride sporting a bikini and the groom rocking board shorts, the 2 received married the very subsequent day after the proposal.
“We asked the hotel to find someone to perform a marriage ceremony,” wrote Lee within the ebook. “We gave blood, sniffed out a marriage license, and were on the beach getting married before the day was over.”
They sealed the deal by tattooing one another’s names on their ring fingers.
Though their tumultuous marriage would solely final till 1998 — whereas the love affair can be on and off once more for years after that — Anderson and Lee have been some of the iconic {couples} of the ’90s.
“It really was love at first sight,” Anderson instructed Individuals in 2015. “I only knew him four days before I married him.”
Nevertheless, they really met on New Yr’s Eve at Hollywood’s Sanctuary, weeks earlier than they received hitched.
“Suddenly, a waitress came over and said, ‘Tommy, here’s a shot of Goldschäger. It’s for you, from Pamela Anderson,’” Lee recalled in his 2004 memoir “Tommyland.”
“I pushed my way into [her] booth, slid over her girlfriends’ laps and forced myself a space right next to her. Then I grabbed her face and just licked the side of it, from chin to temple.”
Face-licking apart, Lee was a gentleman that night time. “She was so beautiful, I couldn’t even bring myself to think of defiling here with thoughts of lust,” he wrote. “I just stared at her all night, and she just stared back.”
Certainly, on the finish of the night time, Lee merely walked Anderson again to her buddy’s automotive, requested for her quantity and gave her a goodnight kiss.
The 2 talked on the cellphone within the weeks earlier than Lee made his shock transfer to woo Anderson whereas she was doing a photograph shoot in Cancun.
“We just wanted to have babies and be together forever,” Anderson instructed Individuals in 2023.
However the honeymoon would grow to be over after the honeymoon. Throughout a five-day houseboat journey to Lake Mead in Nevada, the newlyweds made the notorious intercourse tape that will put their marriage to the take a look at after it was stolen by their former electrician Rand Gauthier.
“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,” wrote Anderson in her 2023 memoir “Love, Pamela.”
Anderson went on to provide start to their son Brandon in Could 1996, however with tensions from the intercourse tape and Lee’s consuming taking a toll on their marriage, Anderson filed for divorce six months later. Nevertheless, they reunited shortly thereafter.
One other son, Dylan, was born in December 1997. However two months later, Lee was arrested and charged with spousal abuse after Anderson accused him of attacking her as she held Dylan. Lee pleaded no contest to spousal abuse and was sentenced to 6 months in jail.
“I couldn’t understand why Pamela had followed through with pressing charges,” Lee wrote in “The Dirt.” “She was probably scared and thought I was some crazy, violent monster; she probably thought she was doing the right thing for the kids.”
After his launch from jail, the now-divorced couple shared a kiss on the World Music Awards and walked the MTV VMAs crimson carpet collectively in 1999. They have been even discussing remarriage.
“I picture Tommy and me … old, toothless, on a bench somewhere with our tattoos,” Anderson mentioned on the time.
However issues fizzled once more, with Lee happening to this point Mayte Garcia, Prince’s ex-wife, and Anderson having a relationship with Child Rock, who she would marry.
Nonetheless, they continued to carry a particular place in one another’s hearts. In 2005, when Lee even participated in Anderson’s Comedy Central roast, he mentioned, “You’ve always been there for me, and your spirit and kindness is an inspiration to me. Like I said 500,000 times, and on that damn sex tape, ‘I f—king love you, baby.’ ”
And in 2008, Lee mentioned they have been giving it one other shot. “We’ve only given it a try 800 times — 801, here we go,” he instructed Rolling Stone.
For Anderson — who’s up for Finest Actress for “The Last Showgirl” on the Display Actors Guild Awards on Sunday — “there’s a connection there that will always be.”
“There was Tommy and then there was nobody else,” she instructed Individuals in 2015. “He was the love of my life.”
In “Love, Pamela,” she wrote, “My relationship with Tommy may have been the only time I was ever truly in love.”
