Pamela Anderson ‘almost got killed’ by angry passenger on a plane

Pamela Anderson says she “almost got killed” during a flight when a passenger mistook her for another celebrity.

Pamela Anderson says she “almost got killed” on a plane when a passenger mistook her for another celebrity.

The actress, 57, revealed the unsettling moment during an interview about her new movie The Last Showgirl, when she was asked if she had ever been mistaken for another actor.

While Anderson had not been mistaken for another actor, she had been mistaken for a member of The Dixie Chicks, who changed their band name to The Chicks in 2020, while on a flight.

“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 recalled on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

She said the angry passenger kept at her and would growl every time she looked at him.

Pamela Anderson at the Golden Globes on Monday. Picture; Monica Schipper/Getty Images

The actress has been promoting her new film, The Last Showgirl. Picture: Cindy Ord/Getty Images

“This stewardess had to handcuff him to a chair because he was trying to attack me,” she said.

“It ended up, he thought I was a Dixie Chick. Remember that whole Dixie Chick thing? Yeah, I almost got killed on a plane.”

She added: “I was scared to fly after that for a little bit.”

The Dixie Chicks performing at the Grammys in February, 2003. They had no idea what was about to come. Picture: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images

The Dixie Chicks – Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson – faced huge backlash when Maines spoke against George W Bush’s imminent invasion of Iraq at a London concert in March 2003.

“Just so you know … we do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas,” she said.

Anderson on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ in 2003. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

The Dixie Chicks on the May cover of Entertainment Weekly in 2003. Picture: AP Photo/Entertainment Weekly

American country listeners responded furiously. Country stations throughout the US pulled the band’s music off air, and the trio received death threats.

Maines tried to further explain herself in a statement saying they were frightened by “the prospect of all the innocent lives that will be lost” in a war.

That didn’t appease critics, so two days later she publicly apologised to the president for her “disrespectful” remark. She retracted that apology in 2006.