Did everyone watch the new Naked Gun, which came out over the summer? I loved it – it had fewer sight gags than the original films, but they captured the humor and energy. I absolutely loved Danny Huston in it too, he was fantastic! Anyway, Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson absolutely pulled it off. They were great in the movie, and they played on their real-life chemistry to sell the movie during the promotion. They even circulated rumors that they were dating in real life. Obviously, we later learned that whatever it was – a situationship? – ended soon after the film’s premiere. Well, now Pamela is explaining what really happened.
As she celebrates the close of her red-hot year, Pamela Anderson is ready to address what really happened with Liam Neeson, her co-star in the summer box office hit, The Naked Gun. While the headlines of their surprise romance were met with enthusiasm by many and skepticism by some, Anderson, 58, shares her memories of their private relationship for the first time in this week’s PEOPLE cover story.
“If you must know, Liam and I were romantically involved for a short while but only after we finished filming,” she says. The two spent an “intimate week” together at his home in upstate New York. “I had my own room,” she notes. “Our assistants both came; even family stopped by.”
The pair “went to dinner at a tiny French restaurant where he introduced me as the ‘future Mrs. Neeson,’ ” she continues. They spent time in his garden, where, she says, “I tended to a rosebush overgrown with mint … I was happy to help, and he appreciated.”
Following what she calls their “romantic lost week” — during which Neeson chased off a bear from the breakfast window in his bathrobe — “we went our separate ways to work on other films,” she explains.
“We were having fun,” she says, calling their connection “a little bit like a Nancy Meyers film.”
“I always was laughing when people thought, ‘Oh, that’s a publicity stunt.’ I’m like, ‘A publicity stunt? This is real. We have real feelings.’ ”
“I adore Liam,” she adds, “but we are better friends, in full honesty.” They reconnected while promoting The Naked Gun over the summer, cuddling and holding hands — she even gave Neeson a playful swipe of her Sonsie lip balm on Andy Cohen’s What What Happens Live.
The two last saw each other in August when he surprised Anderson by coming to see her at the prestigious Williamstown Theater Festival, where she was performing in Tennessee William’s Casino Real. “He is such a supporter of this new trajectory in my career and kindly tells me he is very proud of me,” she says. “I’m sure we will always be in each other’s lives.”
All of this sounds believable and plausible. Liam has had unimaginable loss in his life, and Pamela spent years with guys who did not treat her well. It was probably nice for Liam and Pam to just have a quiet friendship with some sexual tension and leave it at that. I’d be willing to bet that Liam is the kind of man who simply likes having a woman around as well, and I bet he loved having Pam at his home, tending to his garden and just bringing some feminine energy to his life. Anyway, I hope they make another Naked Gun!
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
