A man attacked the actress on the plane. But the reason isn’t really conclusive…
Pamela Anderson has revealed in a new interview that she was mistaken for a member of the country band Dixie Chicks on a plane and attacked because of it.
“I was almost killed on a plane”
On December 6th, Josh Horowitz, host of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, released a new episode. His guest stars: Pamela Anderson and director Gia Coppola. In the 52 minutes they talked, among other things, about their film work together on “The Last Showgirl” (releases on March 20th). But then things went in a different direction…
In the podcast, the “Baywatch” icon also talked about an incident in which she was heavily punished: “This one time I was on a flight and this guy came up to me and said, ‘Do you know what this country is like? did she?’ And I was just like, ‘Oh, my God. What have I done?’” she began. And then: The stranger is said to have stared at Anderson the entire flight. Things soon came to a head and he tried to physically attack the actress. A flight attendant was probably just able to hold the passenger back.
“He thought I was a Dixie Chick,” Anderson then revealed. “Remember that whole Dixie Chick thing? “I was almost killed in a plane,” she said, but she didn’t go into more detail below.
Pamela Anderson in an interview:
The 2003 Dixie Chicks controversy
With the “Dixie Chick thing,” Anderson is referring to the harsh criticism from conservatives that the Chicks – formerly known as the Dixie Chicks – received when lead singer Natalie Maines publicly criticized then-sitting President George W. Bush for invading the United States denounced Iraq. At a concert at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire Theater in London, Maines told the audience that the band would not support the president’s actions. She upped the ante by saying she was ashamed that Bush, like her, was from Texas. Conservatives were shocked by these statements, which sparked a strong backlash in the United States.