Pamela Anderson Says She's Not in an 'Okay' Place with Ex-Husband Tommy Lee: 'Wish We Did Have a Better Rapport'

Mar. 15, 2025

Pamela Anderson on Jan. 5, 2025 and Tommy Lee on April 29, 2024.Photo:Amy Sussman/Getty; Michael Tullberg/Getty

Amy Sussman/Getty; Michael Tullberg/Getty

Pamela AndersonandTommy Leedo not appear to be on the best of terms right now.

While Anderson, 57, appeared onSiriusXM’sAndy Cohen Liverecently to promote her new movieThe Last Showgirl, the actress admitted she and Lee, 62, have not been speaking as often as in years past after Cohen, 56, asked about theformer couple’stwo sons.

“Forgive me — is Brandon’s dad Tommy?” Cohen asked as the two discussed howThe Last ShowgirldirectorGia Coppolaoriginally got in contact with her through her oldest son Brandon Thomas Lee, 28. Anderson and Lee also share son Dylan Jagger Lee, 27.

“Both of them are. Same father,” Anderson responded. When Cohen asked whether she and Mötley Crüe drummer Lee remain “capisce,” she said, “I mean, we used to talk a lot more. Not recently, unfortunately, but you know, I wish we did have a better rapport right now.”

“My youngest son is engaged and we’re gonna have grandkids together,” Anderson added. “It’ll be okay, eventually. It’s just kind of a moment right now.”

Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson on Sept. 18, 1999.Barry King/Liaison

Anderson and Lee famously got married during a whirlwind 1995 romance; they welcomed their older son Brandon in 1996 and welcomed Dylan Jagger Lee the following year. The pair divorced in 1998, though they have gotten back together and broken up again several times in the years since.

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Lee, for his part, has beenmarriedto comedianBrittany Furlansince February 2019; the pair met on the celebrity dating app Raya in 2017. Back in January 2023, Anderson said during an appearance onThe Howard Stern Showthat she and Lee “text here and there” as parents.

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee on Sept. 30, 2015.Todd Williamson/Getty Images

While Anderson spoke with Cohen about Lee and the former couple’s two children, she heaped praise on her sons Brandon and Dylan. “He’s such an amazing person, and he’s the movie star. I don’t know what— but he’s very…he loves business. You know, he’s just a deal maker and he loves it,” she said of Brandon, while Dylan is “a musician and also an entrepreneur and they’re great.”

Anderson’s new movieThe Last Showgirlis in theaters Jan. 10.

source: people.com