Pamela Anderson ‘almost got killed’ on flight by man who thought she was a Dixie Chick: ‘He was trying to attack me’

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The Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks. The actress, 57, revealed the terrifying story on a recent episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast after being asked what celebrity she’s most often mistaken for. “This one time, I was on a flight and this guy came up to me and said, ‘Do you know what this country’s done for you?’” Anderson said, mimicking the man’s gravelly voice as she pointed to the audience gathered at the the 92nd Street Y for the recording.“And I was like, ‘Oh, my God.

What have I done?’”The situation reportedly got worse as the flight went on. The “Last Showgirl” star recalled seeing the man snarling and glaring at her every time she turned around in her seat to look back at him.

She said he ultimately became violent and had to be restrained to his chair. “This stewardess had to handcuff him to the chair because he was trying to attack me,” Anderson said. “Yeah!

And, end up, he thought I was a Dixie Chick,” she added, prompting the audience to laugh.“Remember that whole Dixie Chick thing?” she went on. “I almost got killed on a plane.”Though the “Pamela’s Garden of Eden” star didn’t say what year the high-flying ordeal allegedly happened, it’s assumed it would have been after 2003 when singer Natalie Maines of The Chicks — who changed the band’s name from the Dixie Chicks in 2000 — blasted then-President George W.