Pamela Anderson says she “almost got killed” on a plane after being mistaken for someone else.
The 57-year-old actress recalls being spotted by an angry man on a flight, and he “tried to attack” her. It turns out he’d mistaken her for a member of country’s the Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks.
“This one time, I was on a flight and this guy came up to me and said, ‘Do you know what this country’s done for you?'” she says.
“And I was like, ‘Oh, my God. What have I done?’ And then I looked back at him and he’d [growl at me]. This stewardess had to handcuff him to the chair because he was trying to attack me,” Anderson explains, speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
“Yeah. And, it ended up… he thought I was a Dixie Chick. Remember that whole Dixie Chicks thing? I almost got killed on a plane!”
The former Baywatch actress added that the whole incident left her slightly “scared” to fly afterward. She remembers just turning around in her seat to look back at the man, who was scowling at her the whole time.
“When you look back and he’s like [scowling] at you. That was minor [though]! I was scared to fly after that!”
The Last Showgirl star doesn’t explicitly state when the incident took place, but the group faced controversy when member Natalie Maines condemned then-President George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq while performing at a concert in London in 2003.
Three years after making the comments, the “Goodbye Earl” hitmaker said that she “didn’t feel that way anymore,” but didn’t think that Bush was “owed any respect” at all.
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