It was Lee’s persistence that finally got the pair to connect again less than six weeks later, in February 1995. He called her on the phone as she was getting ready to leave for Cancún, Mexico. Anderson told him about the trip, then insisted that he shouldn’t follow her there as she realized he seemed ready to do just that.
Lee followed her, tracking her to her Ritz-Carlton hotel in Cancún. This was their second in-person meetup. They ended up partying all night, which ended up with a marriage proposal and Lee spending the night in Anderson’s room, according to The New York Post. Four days later, the couple married on the beach, wearing “tattoos of each other’s names on their ring fingers” instead of traditional wedding bands (via Biography). He wore shorts and nothing else, Anderson wore a white bikini (per Esquire).
The New York Post reported Lee was “known for bingeing on groupies, drugging heroically and swallowing small lightbulbs for kicks,” so his spontaneous marriage took even the media by surprise. Anderson’s mother was also caught by surprise, later confessing she found out about the union via People magazine. When asked about eloping on the beach a few years later, Anderson would say, “We were madly in love. It wasn’t like drugs or alcohol or anything like that. We were both just really passionate about life” (via Esquire).
