Pamela Anderson recounts a plane attack that is mistaken for a Dixie girl

Pamela Anderson recounts a plane attack that is mistaken for a Dixie girl

Pamela Anderson was asked during an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast if she has ever been mistaken for another celebrity and her answer was quite shocking. It turns out that a man once tried to attack Anderson on a plane because he thought she was a member of The Chicks, the legendary country music trio 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 has done for you?'” Anderson said. “And I thought, ‘Oh my God. What have I done?’ I thought, ‘Oh God.’ I looked back and he was (angry). Then this stewardess had to handcuff him to the chair because he tried to attack me.”

“Yeah. He ended up thinking I was a Dixie Chick. Remember the whole Dixie Chick thing?” Anderson continued. “I almost got killed on a plane. I was a little afraid of flying after that. “

Anderson chuckled as he told the story, but it was nothing to laugh about at the time. The Golden Globe nominee did not reveal when the incident occurred, but it likely happened sometime in 2003, amid the nationwide firestorm against The Chicks after lead singer Natalie Maines said during a March 10, 2003 concert in London that their band was ashamed when President George W. Bush was from Texas during the invasion of Iraq. The band’s reputation imploded and their music sales plummeted due to the controversial remark. The backlash is chronicled in the Chicks’ 2006 documentary “Shut Up and Sing.”

While Maines later apologized for the remark, she told Time magazine during the press tour for the documentary that she actually had no regrets about the remark, adding, “I apologized for disrespecting the office of president.” “But I don’t feel that way anymore. I don’t think he’s owed any respect.”

The Chicks officially changed their name from the Dixie Chicks in 2020 due to the word “Dixie” having historical ties to the Confederacy and the history of racism in the United States.

Watch Anderson’s full interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in the video below.

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