The Real Reason It Happened

Why did Tommy Lee and Kid Rick fight? The famous brawl happened at the 2007 VMAs and Pamela Anderson is sharing her aspect of things.

It has been nearly two decades since the well-known brawl between Tommy Lee and Kid Rock (real name: Robert “Bob” James Richie) came about at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. Although all parties have reputedly moved on from the incident, it remains a memorable staple in popular culture.

After all, Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson was once on-again, off-again with ex-husband Tommy Lee at the time and Kid Rock was additionally her ex-husband. So, to the world, folks imagine that the battle was merely because of a love triangle.

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Now that years have passed, the surprising combat has made headlines once more because of Pamela’s new memoir, Love, Pamela.

So, why did the rock stars decide to throw fists at the 2007 MTV VMAs? Here’s the entirety that we all know.

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Tommy Lee and Kid Rock's combat left Pamela Anderson feeling "bamboozled," she revealed in her memoir.

Baby … the boys were fighting!

Pamela is protecting nothing back in her newly released memoir Love, Pamela.

In the e book, Pamela may be very open about her failed marriages with each Kid Rock and Tommy Lee. Interestingly, the Baywatch icon also sheds some light on the well-known brawl at the 2007 MTV VMAs. And in keeping with Pam, MTV perhaps set the entire factor up.

Keep in thoughts, Pamela had a romantic historical past with Tommy, whom she married in 1995 and divorced in 1998. However, Pam and Tommy had a historical past of breaking up and making up.

Pamela also wrote that she hadn’t kept involved with or noticed Kid since their divorce in 2006. So, when everyone attended the VMAs, it was the first time the former pair saw one some other.

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As Pamela went to take her seat previous Kid, "Tommy pulled me onto his lap" and Pamela joked to Criss Angel that she’d like for him to “make Tommy disappear.”

Kid watched the complete trade cross down and wasn’t happy.

"Bob saw the whole thing and was fuming from his seat across from us," Pamela wrote.

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Shortly after, her exes “dove at each and every other” and the fight ensued.

"Fists were flying, and the whole thing ended up on live TV. I walked out," she added. "It was a setup. MTV must have been thrilled. I told the press waiting outside that we were bamboozled."

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Kid Rock and Tommy Lee spoke out about the struggle and pointed blame at each other.

Soon after the proper, Tommy Lee spoke his piece by way of his web site after the state of affairs occurred.

“Here I'm minding my very own industry [when] I am getting a tap on the shoulder from Kid Pebble,” Tommy wrote, per People. “I get up and include him with a semi-hug and say 'Hey dude … What up?' He punches me in the face, smartly if ya wish to name it that… more like a b---h slap! … Wuss!!”

Tommy shared that he was once nearly in a position to get revenge but was once removed by way of security earlier than he may shield himself.

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Interestingly, Kid seemed on The Kevin & Bean Show on KROQ-FM quickly after the fight, and he shared that his reasoning for striking Tommy has to do with old beef.

“It’s been going on for five years,” Kid mentioned. “I did what any guy would do, any man across the country, across the world would do. It kills me just to be related to it, to have my name in a sentence with him, it honestly destroys me.”

Kid additionally stated that his battle with Tommy had not anything to do with Pam, as many folks speculated. He went on to recount cases during which he felt disrespected by means of Tommy.

“Last touch I had with him was when me and Pam have been going thru our divorce,” Kid said. "He picked up her BlackBerry and started emailing me a lot of horrendous things. It was extremely disrespectful.”

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Kid went directly to proportion that the incident was once certain to happen.

“This was once unavoidable. I needed to do what I had to do as a result of this was a long time coming. You know, I got here again from the rest room and he was sitting proper there. It used to be even more disrespectful after everything he stated, I was like that’s enough, that’s it.”

There’s no telling if the mud has in the end settled between the rock stars, however their combat is surely one lovers won't ever omit.

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