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Carmen Electra Says Rodman’s Drinking and Partying Ended Their 1998 Marriage

In a May 26 podcast she says the lifestyle damaged her health and a friend’s self‑help book pushed her to leave.

Overview

  • Electra told the Legally Goff podcast on May 26 that she could not keep up with Dennis Rodman’s nonstop partying and “constant drinking,” which she said made her decide to end the marriage.
  • The couple married in Las Vegas in November 1998, Rodman sought an annulment nine days later, they briefly reconciled, and Electra filed for divorce in April 1999.
  • Electra described a physical and emotional decline—saying she no longer recognized herself in the mirror—and credits a friend’s self‑help book with giving her the clarity to leave.
  • She says Rodman tried to reconcile after the split, at times showing a softer side but also turning up at her home and prompting her to move and change her phone number to create distance.
  • Electra emphasized the romance was real rather than a publicity stunt and her account is a decades‑later personal recollection set against Rodman’s public history of alcohol struggles and past treatment.