Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee gave us a rock and roll love story for the ages: The blonde bombshell and the bad boy rock star fell in love at first sight, and flamed out with a bang. They may be happily married to new partners these days, but here's the reason why Pam and Tommy really split.

Despite Anderson once telling Lee not to visit her on a work trip to Cancun, he did anyway. Lee recalled in Mötley Crüe's 2001 autobiography, The Dirt,

"Evidently, [Pam] wasn't even going to return my call. [But her friends] saw how hard I was working and begged her: 'Go out with him for one drink. It couldn't hurt.' Well, it did hurt, because four days later we were married."

Just 96 hours after their first official date, they tied the knot on the beach in 1995. Lee remembered,

"Instead of wedding bands, we went for something more permanent: Tattoos of each other's names around our fingers…This was real. We were married."

At the time, Anderson told People magazine,

"It was just instant, mind-blowing animal attraction. He's everything I've ever wanted in somebody."

"Soon, soon, we wanna have babies."

Anderson got pregnant almost immediately after they got hitched, but suffered a miscarriage that left Lee quote "depressed for months." When the two welcomed their first son, Brandon, in 1996, a dark realization hit Lee. He wrote,

"Pamela and I got busy having kids so quickly that we never gave ourselves a chance to build a solid relationship. I asked her much later, 'Why didn't we work on our relationship more?' 'We couldn't,' she replied. 'I was pregnant the whole time.'"

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Moving way too fast | 0:18

An abusive home life | 1:32

Does he have a drinking problem? | 2:14

That famous video tape | 3:18

Never say die | 4:19