Pamela Anderson's on-screen kiss triggered 'insanely jealous' reaction from Tommy Lee

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As "Baywatch" reboot news heats up the waters in Los Angeles, David Chokachi reminisced about the good, the bad and the downright uncomfortable times on set of the world's most popular television show.

Chokachi, who portrayed lifeguard Cody Madison in 65 episodes of the program, remembered one less-than-perfect day filming at the beach. His character was in an on-screen romance with Pamela Anderson's character, C.J. Parker, much to the dismay of her real-life lover, rock star Tommy Lee.

Anderson wrote about Lee's jealousy in her memoir, "Love, Pamela," and detailed more in her Netflix documentary about a dramatic incident in which Tommy trashed her "Baywatch" trailer upon finding out she had an onscreen kiss with Chokachi.

"I was there when he destroyed her trailer," Chokachi exclusively told Fox News Digital. "I literally walked by her trailer and I heard, like, demolished … things shattering, and I didn't know what was going on. I went down to the set and found out he had destroyed her $1 million trailer.

"It turns out he wasn't that bad guy, and we ended up going to dinner and partying together a couple of times, but he was insanely jealous, and he did not like to see his wife or girlfriend at the time on camera kissing another dude. He just was ... extremely jealous, threatened the producers' lives. I mean, I was like, 'It's just TV, man.'"

In her 2023 documentary, "Pamela, a love story," Anderson remembered that Tommy would "sneak in" to her trailer between filming "because it was his time with his wife." While reading an excerpt from her diary, Anderson said she hadn't told Tommy about the kiss, and once he found out, "he lost it."

"He came and trashed my trailer on the set. Put his fist through a cabinet. I apologized for not telling him – lying, as he put it – and told him it wouldn’t happen again," she said.

Chokachi remembered the entire situation being "very sad."

"Unfortunately, like, for her, I saw the effect of him and his, like, his kind of power or his, like, nastiness, because she'd be really nervous," he said. "If there was a make-out scene, she'd have to tell him we're shooting at a different location or tell the crew to tell Tommy we're going to be shooting somewhere else, so he doesn't show up on set and see her making out with me because he's going to go to through the roof.

"You could tell she was nervous about it, like just on her mind a lot – the unease that was at home. It's definitely a bummer because she's such an awesome human being. She is so funny and so beautiful. I was like, ‘Why would anybody treat this girl like anything but the amazing human being that she is.’ I couldn't understand it."

In February 1998, two months Anderson and Lee welcomed their second child together, the Mötley Crüe drummer was arrested and charged with felony spousal abuse and later pleaded no contest. She filed for divorce hours later. Tommy was sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to serve three years probation.

The friendly exes reconciled a few times through the years before deciding co-parenting their two boys was best for their relationship.