Photo: BANG Showbiz. All rights reserved. Pamela Anderson thinks she could have "definitely" ended up like Amy Winehouse.
The 57-year-old actress endured a tumultuous time in the media when her sex tape with ex-husband Tommy Lee was leaked online in the late 1990s and later admitted that she once tried to take her own life as she compared her own relationship with fame to that of the late 'Back to Black' legend, who died in 2011 at the age of just 27 as a result of alcohol poisoning. But the 'Baywatch' star - who has Brandon, 28, and 26-year-old Dylan with Motley Crue rocker Tommy - noted that it was in fact her boys who "saved" her from such a fate, even though she knows that is a lot to put on their conscience. She told Glamour magazine: "[Amy] came to my show in Las Vegas.
I still have her jacket with a ticket to the magic show in her pocket." Asked if she thinks her own story could have ended in a similarly tragic way to Amy's, she said: "Definitely. There were many times where I could have just gone that way, but what saved my life – and you never want to put this on your kids – were my boys.
Because without my boys, I wouldn’t have been able to be as strong as I was. "I had to be strong for my boys. And I also had to leave Tommy for my boys.
And even though I married other people and I did other things, my intention was to create a family for them." The Playboy legend - who has now been sober for a considerable amount of time - is also noted for her activism work .