Anderson has always been skeptical when it comes to Hollywood, even when she was living in it. She pulled her sons out of classes in Los Angeles and enrolled them in a boarding school on Vancouver Island to offer them something akin to her own British Columbia upbringing (she was born in Canada but became a U.S. citizen after moving to Los Angeles). Her relationship with Lee, one of three ex-husbands, was famously volatile, with accusations of abuse leveled at the Motley Crue drummer. "I picked her up many times from her lawyer's office and flew her up with her kids and hid her out in Aspen for a month because the guy was beating her up," recalls former mogul Jon Peters, who briefly lived with Anderson in the 1990s. "But she made it through. She raised the kids. She's got money. She's got a career."

Her son Brandon recently was involved in a physical altercation with his father over derogatory tweets the rocker posted about Anderson. But these days Anderson tries to keep her distance from family dramas. "I stay out of it," she says. "The kids are adults, and they make all their own decisions. I look at the differences in their personalities and their fearlessness and their ambition and their clarity, and I'm just so proud of both of them."

She only hopes she won't be appearing as a character in the upcoming Netflix movie about Motley Crue, The Dirt. "I can't imagine it being of any interest," she says. She's even more dismissive when it comes to her other famous ex-husband, Kid Rock. She says she never spoke to him again after they divorced in 2007 and isn't buying his new Redneck Everyman persona. "When he was with me, he didn't hunt. I don't think he was very Republican, but now he is. Oh well." She sighs.

Source: hollywoodreporter.com