Carmen Electra decided to “call it quits” on her marriage to Dennis Rodman because she was losing herself.
“It was just too hard to keep up with him and his friends,” the 54-year-old actress admitted on Tuesday’s “Legally Goff” podcast.
“I was always drinking,” the “Baywatch” alum recalls.
Electra, 54, told listeners that when she looked in the mirror, she “didn’t recognize[herself].”
“I had dark circles under my eyes. My face was swollen. I’m in my 20s! I thought, ‘I’ve got to stop, I’ve got to stop,'” she recalled.
“I just thought, ‘What good will come of this if I don’t leave him?'” she continued. “It was real love. It wasn’t a fake story. It wasn’t a publicity stunt. It was real love. It’s sad, but it had to end.”
The “Scary Movie” star said there was “a period” in which the former Chicago Bulls player, 65, showed his tender side after their breakup by being “really sweet and cute and crying.”
“[He]wanted me back,” she recalled. “I’m going to give back everything (he gave me). Not everything. I kept what he gave me when we were together, but then I gave everything back. It was tough.”
Electra said she needed to “move and change numbers” to completely separate herself from the athlete.
“He only came to my house and never left,” she claimed. “He threatened to get naked outside again. He just didn’t want the police to come. He didn’t want it to be a big deal.”
Representatives for Mr. Rodman have not yet responded to Page Six’s request for comment.
The “Meet the Spartans” star and the five-time NBA champion met in 1998 and married in a Las Vegas chapel in November of the same year.
Nine days after their wedding, Rodman filed for an annulment.
Electra and the former NBA star briefly reconciled, but their divorce was finalized in April 1999.
