An angry passenger once mistook Pamela Anderson for a member of The Chicks

Pamela Anderson is still confused about the time a plane passenger thought she was a member of The Chicks.

While Anderson, 57, appeared on the Monday, January 6, episode of Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote her film The Last Showgirl with director Gia Coppola, the actress shared that a man once angrily confronted her on a flight and had to be restrained because of his vitriol for the Texas-based country band.

“One time I was on a plane and this guy came up to me and said, ‘Do you know what this country has done for you?’ And I thought, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’ ” Anderson said when host Josh Horowitz asked her if she had ever been mistaken for another celebrity.

“I’d look back at him and he’d be like ‘Grrr’ and I’d be ‘Oh my God,'” she added. “And then this flight attendant had to handcuff him to the chair because he tried to attack me. He ended up thinking I was a Dixie Chick.”

Anderson’s revelation drew laughter from Horowitz, Coppola and the live audience at Happy Sad Confusedwhich was recorded at New York City’s 92NY. “Remember that whole Dixie Chick thing? Yeah. I almost got killed in a plane,” she said.

The Chicks, known as The Dixie Chicks from 1989 to 2020, faced significant public backlash in the 2000s for sharing their disapproval of the US war in Iraq during a concert on March 10, 2003 in London, days before The United States and allied forces invaded the country. During that concert, lead singer Natalie Maines stated that the group was ashamed that then-President George W. Bush “is from Texas.”

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“It’s only like the 400th weirdest thing that’s happened in your life, to be fair,” podcast host Horowitz told Anderson after she shared the anecdote. “Yeah, it’s smaller. I was scared to fly a little after that, but you know.”

The Last Showgirl follows Anderson as Shelly, a veteran Las Vegas showgirl whose future becomes uncertain when her show abruptly closes after 30 years. She stars in the film with Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Billie Lourd, Kiernan Shipka and Brenda Song.

“I just wanted it to be raw and real, and I was ready for it and prepared for it and excited for it,” Anderson recently told PEOPLE about why she decided not to wear makeup in the film, except when her character appears on stage.

The Last Showgirl is in cinemas everywhere Jan 10.