so you literally didn t go because you didn t know how to get to marina del rey. - yeah. - and if your boyfriend didn t drive you, - you wouldn t have gone? - pamela: right. and he was going for an audition, david charvet. so we both got the job. your life is just a series of chance things, isn t it? accidents. ( chuckles ) yes. yes, that s what i like about it. that s what s not a lot of planning. - so you were on home improvement. - that was my first job. harvey: i know. you were a big hit on tool time as lisa. why did they hire you, do you think? you didn t have a lot of acting experience. pamela: they had me come in and they just had me on tape and they just said, count backwards from ten and say your name, and i remember saying, ten, nine, eight, and so they gave me the job. i don t know, it was something really ridiculous. you counted backwards from ten and got the job that way? yes, that s how i got the job. that s gonna piss off a lot of actresses. i guess i did it rea
they re both healthy and they re not, you know, into the into anything bad. and they re very focused. they re not like me. they are calculated and ambitious and boys. and they re so sweet. with me, they don t let me pay for anything, do anything. they look after mom. they don t ask me for anything. they re very proud. how did it affect them that you had, you know, you were a sex symbol, you were on baywatch. you know, this tape had come out. how did it affect them in school? oh, they they got into some fights. you know, people teased them and, uh, they, unfortunately, came upon things that i was waiting age appropriately to be able to talk to them about these things, and there s never a right time. harvey: well, it wasn t a secret that you had done playboy 15 times. it wasn t a secret you were on baywatch. it wasn t a secret about this tape. i mean, that was bad. kids in school teasing them about seeing their mom and dad. and that was hurtful and horrible, and also and when i
so let s try and work it out. it just was too broken at that point. i m greatly saddened that my children are gonna grow up without their mother and father being married. that that really that bothers me a lot. i thought we d be together forever. i really did. - you, uh, married kid rock. - yes. harvey: there was a pretty famous incident in 2007 at the mtv vma awards where tommy went after kid rock. i remember it because it was the very first day tmz went on television. - oh, no. - and i remember we thought we ve got to blow up the whole show because look what just happened. pamela: i could just see them looking at each other and i thought, something bad is gonna happen. and i end up going out the door leaving, and they jumped at each other on live tv. and went after each other. - you re like helen of troy. - i don t know. i just went to my hotel, and as soon as i got to my hotel, my friends were there saying, you re not going to believe what happened. and i said, oh, no. i co
and then all of a sudden, i was the blue zone girl. and after that, i did a commercial for labatt. glad to see that smiling face hey, you re gonna like this place doo, doo, doo, gonna break out the blue so tell me what happened after that because it s pretty amazing that you just show up at a game, put a t-shirt on, and you become a star. pamela: phone rang and it was marilyn grabowski from playboy and asked me to come shoot a cover. i ve been on 14 or 15 covers. not all of them have centerfolds of me inside. not all of them have pictorials inside of me. harvey: were you freaked out? i was, i was. i was very shy. like i said, getting over my shyness was really, uh that was really important for me to be able to. face my fears and be brave in all sorts of situations in my life after that. i think it really set me up for quite an exciting, bold life. it s an odd thing that somebody who is shy by nature and not particularly trusting goes from that to playboy.