Carmen Electra said she ultimately decided to “stop” her marriage to Dennis Rodman because she was losing herself.
“It was just too hard to continue to keep up with him and his friends,” she admitted on the “Legally Goff” podcast Tuesday.
“It was constant drinking,” the “Baywatch” alum added.
Electra, 54, said she “didn’t recognize [herself]” when she would look in the mirror at home.
“I had bags under my eyes. My face was puffy. I’m in my 20s! I thought, ‘It’s got to stop. It has to stop,’” she recalled.
“I just thought, ‘I’ve got to get away from him because what good is going to come out of this?’ It was real love. It wasn’t a made-up story. It wasn’t a publicity stunt. It was real love,” Electra shared.
“It’s sad but it had to end.”
The “Scary Movie” actress said “there were times” after their breakup when the former Chicago Bulls star, 65, exhibited a softer side by “being really sweet and cute and cry[ing].”
“[He’d] want me back,” she confessed. “I would just give everything [he gave me] back — not everything. I kept the things that he gave me from when we were together but after that, I gave everything back. It was hard.”
Electra said she had to “move and change [her] number” to completely separate from Rodman.
“He would just come to my house and not leave,” she claimed. “He’d threaten to get naked again outside. I just didn’t want the police [to come]. It didn’t want it to turn into a big thing.”
The “Meet the Spartans” star and the five-time NBA champion met in 1998 and wed in a Las Vegas chapel that November.
After nine days of marriage, Rodman filed for annulment.
Electra and the former NBA star reconciled briefly but finalized their divorce in April 1999.
