Sacha Baron Cohen Says ‘Borat’ Split Up Pamela Anderson And Kid

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Sacha Baron Cohen not too long ago reentered the limelight together with his critically acclaimed Showtime sequence Who Is America?, however the comic won’t ever escape the infamy of his earlier satirical characters. This is very true of Borat, wherein the comedian actor who performed the fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev on his quest throughout the United States to search out Pamela Anderson and suggest to her. The movie got here out practically 15 years in the past, but it surely’s again within the information because of Cohen’s upcoming look on The Last Laugh podcast.

Specifically, Borat is again due to what it supposedly did to Anderson’s marriage to Kid Rock. At across the similar time that the film was being launched, the movie star couple was enduring a bitterly public divorce that some tabloids have been attributing to Anderson’s involvement within the undertaking. While discussing this with The Last Laugh, Cohen confirmed for the primary time ever that this was certainly the case. In explicit, Cohen confirmed it concerning a 2006 information story that claimed Rock had “started screaming at Pam, saying she had humiliated herself” after watching a particular screening of the movie:

Baron Cohen mentioned that he texted Anderson after that screening and requested, “How did it go? What did he think?” She texted again that they have been getting divorced. When he requested her why, she replied, “The movie.”

“And I thought it was a joke but then a few weeks later they got divorced and they put as a reason for divorce, Borat,” Baron Cohen added, earlier than joking, “I think they were a fantastic couple, so it’s a shame. Much better than Julian Assange or whoever she dated later on.”

Unsurprisingly, neither Anderson nor Rock has spoken publicly about Cohen’s feedback.

(Via The Daily Beast)