Pamela Anderson doesn’t just like bad boys—she likes the worst boys, said Jessica Pressler in Elle. The former Baywatch star has had a string of doomed romances with hard rockers, including Poison frontman Bret Michaels, Kid Rock (“His name is actually Bob,” says Anderson), and her great on-again, off-again love, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee—who spent four months in jail for assaulting her. She traces her lousy taste in men back to her upbringing in Canada. Her father, a furnace repairman, was an alcoholic who sometimes hit her mother. “He and my mother are very much in love, but they had this volatile relationship. If you look at my track record, it’s similar.” The 46-year-old is now married to poker player Rick Salomon—who once filmed a sex tape with Paris Hilton—but the two most stable men in her life are her sons, Brandon, 17, and Dylan, 16. She hasn’t been able to protect them from the infamous sex tape she made with their father, Lee, on their honeymoon. “I don’t know if they’ve seen it, but they know about it. They know about everything. Stupid Internet. I don’t know why everyone’s so impressed with it.”
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