Pamela Anderson ‘almost got killed’ by man who mistook her for Chicks member

Pamela Anderson is looking back at the time she “almost got killed” aboard a flight by a man who mistook her for a member of the Chicks. 

The Last Showgirl star, 57, recounted a harrowing incident during a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast when asked which celebrity she’s been mistaken for.

“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?’” Anderson recalled, adopting a gruff tone and pointing toward the audience. “And I was like, ‘Oh, my God. What have I done?’” 

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The actress explained that the unidentified man continued to snarl and glare at her whenever she turned to look back at him during the flight and, at one point, had to be physically restrained because he attempted to hurt her.

“This stewardess had to handcuff him to the chair because he was trying to attack me. Yeah. And, end up, he thought I was a Dixie Chick,” she said as the audience laughed. “Remember that whole Dixie Chick thing? I almost got killed on a plane.” 

While Anderson did not explicitly state when the incident took place, the Chicks, who changed their name in 2020, faced heavy backlash after singer Natalie Maines publicly condemned President George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq at a London concert in 2003. The Grammy award-winning band was subsequently blacklisted by country radio stations following her remarks, with angry fans destroying their albums, boycotting their tour, and sending the members death threats. 

Maines initially issued an apology for her comment, but later took it back in a 2006 interview with Time Magazine. “I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President. But I don’t feel that way anymore,” the singer said at the time. “I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever.

Anderson joked on the podcast that the airplane incident with the man was “minor,” before admitting that the experience had rattled her. She added, “I was scared to fly after that, a little bit.”

Listen to Anderson discuss the incident in the podcast above.