Nonetheless, she’s not with out remorse over the Rodman relationship. “If we might have grown extra collectively, I actually noticed myself being with him eternally,” she continued. “I understand how a lot he beloved me.”
By 2003, Electra had discovered her twin flame in one other star, Jane’s Habit and Purple Scorching Chilli Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro. The wise-cracking musician and Electra shared an prompt, camera-ready connection. Photographer David LaChapelle styled the pair bare on gurneys for his or her wedding ceremony invitation, she mentioned Hugh Hefner attended their wedding ceremony with playmates in tow, and the pair was tapped for their very own MTV actuality present, Til Loss of life Do Us Half: Carmen and Dave. “It was actually stunning in a gothic, stunning and form of darkish [way],” she mentioned. “Darkish and lightweight mixed.”
The wedding lasted 4 years, all through which, Electra remembers Navarro’s substance abuse and alleged infidelity have been front-page information. “I had by no means been round a junkie,” Electra mentioned. “My associates informed me that it’s important to be there as a result of in the event you’re not, he’s going to die…it was very, very exhausting for me and one thing that I didn’t perceive. And [his cheating] was on the quilt of each journal, I used to be actually embarrassed. Coping with that publicly on prime of all the things.”
A consultant for Navarro didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Electra nonetheless is on good phrases with all her well-known exes. Earlier than Prince died, she mentioned they’d plans to reunite within the studio. She and Rodman share the identical illustration, whom she says has implied Rodman may wish to get again collectively (“I might if we might,” she says at this time). The actor has additionally thought-about reconnecting with Navarro, with whom it has at all times been a case of “unsuitable place, unsuitable time.” She feels it’s kismet that Navarro and Prince share the identical birthday.
“I used to be very codependent,” she mentioned of her earlier relationships. “My feeling was, Wow, once I wanted you, the place have been you?”
Whereas Carmen Electra could be single, she’s not with out admirers. You may pay for the pleasure of her digital firm by way of OnlyFans, the place she leverages her enduring standing as a intercourse image and even shares exclusives on the positioning alongside the likes of Sopranos actor Drea de Matteo. Lately, Electra cedes management to nobody, save Kim Kardashian. She and McCarthy, additionally 51, had a “good snigger” about reuniting in bikinis for the Skims marketing campaign.
Marlon Wayans in contrast her to the Skims founder. “She was the Kim Kardashian of that day,” he mentioned. “She was the Julius Erving to Michael Jordan. She was likable—throughout MTV, all within the magazines, each man needed to be along with her and each woman needed to be like her.”
The storm has subsided, and with it, the servers’ consideration. By now, they’re well-acclimatized to Electra—shifting on, as followers so typically do, to the following unknowable factor. Electra appears unbothered that on this café, at the very least, she’s yesterday’s information. She has survived and thrived this lengthy due to a 30-year decision to by no means take herself too significantly. And it doesn’t matter what’s subsequent, she’s not about to alter course.
“That is me, that is it,” Electra continued, shifting a hand as much as her greatest, and most underrated asset: her coronary heart. “One other step, one other step.”
