April 16, 2024: Anderson is cast opposite Neeson in The Naked Gun, a reboot of the slapstick comedy franchise from the 1980s starring Leslie Nielsen.
2023: In the final chapter of her best-selling memoir, Love, Pamela, Anderson writes of her sons, “Both you boys are born from a rare kind of romantic love.” (Anderson was married to rocker Tommy Lee from 1995 to 1998.)
She continues, “Which leads me to Tommy. Thank you for just being you, and for being the catalyst for everything good in my life.”
2020–2021: Anderson meets and marries her builder and bodyguard, Dan Hayhurst, while renovating her grandparents’ home in Canada. At the time, she told Vanity Fair, she began to “romanticize everything. Everyone was looking good—all the contractors that were here.”
The marriage lasted less than a year. In the same interview Anderson said, “It ended up being a disaster.”
2009: Anderson and Lee end their on-again, off-again relationship for good nearly 14 years after they first meet.
March 18, 2009: Natasha Richardson dies of a traumatic brain injury following a skiing accident in Quebec. She left behind her husband, Neeson, and their two sons, Micheál and Daniel, who were born in 1995 and 1996.
Speaking with Anderson Cooper in 2014, Neeson opened up about Richardson’s final hours.
“‘Oh, darling. I’ve taken a tumble in the snow.’ That’s how she described it,” he said, remembering a phone call after the accident. At the time Neeson was in Toronto filming; he immediately boarded a flight when it became clear that her condition was serious.
He also reminisced about their first meeting on stage while performing Anna Christie on Broadway in 1993. “She was a radiant beauty,” he recalled. “Yeah, cascading hair. I remember. There was—that was very, very attractive.”
“I’d never had that kind of an explosive chemistry situation with an actor, or actress,” he said.
1998: Anderson files for divorce from Lee following his arrest. He was charged with spousal and child abuse after assaulting Anderson in their home while she was holding their infant son.
The couple shares two children: Brandon, who was born in 1996, and Dylan, who was born in 1998.
1995: Pam Anderson weds Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.
1994: Liam Neeson marries British actor Natasha Richardson.
