Pamela Anderson claimed she “almost got killed” on a flight after a man mistook her for a member of the country group The Chicks.
The “Baywatch” star recalled the aggressive encounter on Monday’s episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast with Josh Horowitz.
“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?’”
“And I was like, ‘Oh, my God. What have I done?’” Anderson, now 57, continued.
The former model claimed the man would snarl at her every time she looked in his direction and eventually tried to get physically violent.
“This stewardess had to handcuff him to the chair because he was trying to attack [me],” she alleged. “And, ends up, he thought I was a Dixie Chick.”
“Remember that whole Dixie Chick thing?” Anderson asked Horowitz. “I almost got killed on a plane.”
The actress joked the incident was “minor” but admitted she was shaken up and “scared to fly” afterward.
Anderson didn’t reveal when the incident occurred, however, it likely played out after The Chicks member Natalie Maines called out former President George W. Bush for invading Iraq during a 2003 concert in London, per Entertainment Weekly.
The Chicks, who changed their group name in 2020, were then banned from several radio stations, in addition to receiving death threats and having fans boycott their concerts and destroy their albums.
In 2006, Maines issued a fake apology during an interview with Time magazine, saying, “I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President. But I don’t feel that way anymore.
“I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever.”
However, the “Landslide” songstress slightly changed her tune on Bush when President-elect Donald Trump was running against President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
“Today, I might actually make out with George Bush,” she said during a July 2020 appearance on “Watch What Happens Live.”
Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer are also members of The Chicks.
