Sacha Baron Cohen confirms that Borat DID led to the end of Pamela Anderson's wedding in 2006 with Kid Rock

Sacha Baron Cohen is frank and blames the failure of Pamela Anderson's short marriage with Kid Rock.

The British actor and actor has confirmed long-standing rumors that it was Baywatch Beauty's role in his 2006 film Borat that put the nail in the coffin of his relationship with the musician.

Baron Cohen, 47, told Matt Wilstein of the Daily Beast that the split had taken place after Kid Rock had attended the screening of his film. Borat was approaching Anderson for a book signing and was trying to take her to a "traditional wedding bag" and pick her up. in Kazakhstan.

After seeing Borat at a private screening, Kid Rock was apparently launched in an angry tirade against the blonde actress and reportedly called a pin-up by calling him "a whore" "and a" slut ".

Baron Cohen said that he sent a text message to Anderson after the screening and asked what her husband had thought of the film and its cameo.

She said, "He is getting divorced," said the Golden Globe winner.

I was like, & # 39; Why? & # 39; And she goes, "The movie." And I thought it was a joke, but a few weeks later, they divorced and they invoked the reason for the divorce, Borat, he said.

Anderson and Kid Rock tied their ties with a yacht moored in Saint-Tropez in southern France on July 29, 2006. She filed for divorce on November 27, two weeks after Borat came out in movie theaters. .

Baron Cohen also confirmed that Anderson had got the gag right and that when he approached her when signing the book, she had known that he was an actor playing a role.

"Otherwise it would have been an abduction," he joked.

In the film, which won an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, Baron Cohen starred as a TV personality from Kazakhstan who travels to the United States to tell what makes the film the best. Great America.

Along the way, followed by a documentary film crew, Borat falls in love with the beauty of Baywatch and embarks on the mission of finding her and marrying her.

"We did this scene twice, actually," Baron Cohen said of the "wedding bag" scene.

"The first time we did it at a book signing, I grabbed it over my shoulder and went out with her without anyone doing anything. I was like, what kind of fans are they?

He said that during the second attempt, the people around them had followed them and in the fray, Anderson had accidentally "cut his jaw".

Baron Cohen pondered, "She lost two things. One, she lost a tiny bone in her jaw. And second, she lost a husband.

The filmmaker is currently advertising his showtime show Who Is America? before the announced Emmy appointments.