After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun (2024) s01e04 Episode Script
After the Sunset
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Everyone is set?
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Action!
Everything is
always happening.
Everything is always
happening.
Changes are always
taking place.
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For most
of the Baywatch actors,
the show had a bit of
a stigma to it afterwards.
I grappled with
taking it off my résumé.
I can't take it off my résumé.
It was two years of my life.
Yeah, I remember you
from Baywatch.
Oh, yeah,
but I've done other things.
Um, not right now.
Some of the most incredible
opportunities I had, I blew.
I just self-sabotaged,
because I was so scared.
Things were great
until they weren't.
♪
What are you drinking?
A gimlet.
A vodka gimlet.
At 8:30 in the morning?
It's a whirlwind of epic
highs and bitter lows.
In a moment,
when the doctor tells you
you have Parkinson's,
your whole life changes.
When we were paddling,
he'd be up my ass on my board.
Like, come on,
we're going further.
And this time, he's like,
"That's as far
as I can go, guys."
♪
Life after Baywatch
for a lot of the actors is
interesting.
It was so
life-changing for everybody
in such a different way.
Everybody has
a different story.
I did everything,
and I loved it.
Do I sound like an old-timer
when I say,
they just don't make
shows like they used to?
♪
♪
I'm 14.
I just stole a check out
of my mailbox for five grand
it has my name on it
to grab a limo
so we can go to the club
and tip the bouncer a grand
to let us in.
♪
I mean, even when I was 16,
it was already like,
you're a has-been, you know?
So I've been dealing with that
for a really long time.
♪
Jeremy Jackson had
a bad reputation.
And it was just like,
oh, it's the guy
from Baywatch that does meth.
Like, that guy is scary.
And that drug, crystal meth,
it changes who you are
and it makes you
it makes anyone
a fucking monster.
♪
I think
what concerned me most
about a lot of my castmates
was that they didn't understand
that this was gonna end,
and that they needed to be
ready when it ended.
That was a crazy time.
I mean, that was
you know, I was in
full-blown fuck it
full-blown fuck it mode.
Thatthat drug had a hold
of me, and, you know,
I was just spiraling
down for sure.
And I was very stuck there.
I didn't have
the power to abstain.
I left Jeremy's dad
when Jeremy was
three months old.
And he was in and out of jail.
And he could have been
anything he wanted to be,
but he was a drug addict.
So from a pretty early age,
when anybody would ask me
about my dad
or where my dad was,
I would just tell 'em
that he was dead.
♪
Jeremy was given crystal meth
at about 18 years old.
♪
And that wasthat was
the turning point for Jeremy.
And that was on his last
season of the show.
And I remember David saying,
are you, like, smoking pot
or something?
I was like, Jesus,
they think I'm smoking pot?
I mean, I could never
tell them the truth.
What would they think?
When you haven't slept
for five days
and you've been smoking
crystal meth, you know,
having somebody look you
in the eyes and say,
"Dude, are you OK?"
It's like the worst thing
that can happen.
That's how it starts.
And then by the time
the show ended,
he was a full-blown
drug addict.
I had been up for five days,
and I showed up to the set
and couldn't really even speak.
It was like marbles
were in my mouth.
Mymy tongue
wouldn't work right.
I couldn't "pronunciate" right.
I kept messing up,
kept forgetting,
kept forgetting,
kept forgetting.
I got so embarrassed
so embarrassed
that I had fallen
from my ability to perform,
fallen from one-take Jeremy
to, like,
"What's going on
with this guy?"
He knew he was fucking up.
And instead of
actually acknowledging that
he had a problem
and admitting to the problem
and maybe getting help,
he basically told everyone
to fuck themselves.
II just said,
"You know what?
I'm out of here."
And I literally put my
middle finger up in the air
and I told everybody
to fuck off.
And I just walked away with
my middle finger in the air.
I just walked away,
the whole way back to my car,
and just took off.
Took off.
That's when
I turned my phone off.
That's when I said, "Screw it."
That's when
I pulled the curtain.
And that's when I went dark.
My life slipped through
my hands like sand.
♪
I started hanging out
with gang members,
thieves and criminals
and prostitutes
and drug dealers,
and that became
my whole world.
I don't know.
I don't know how or why I just
pulled the curtain on one life
and I just stepped
into this other life,
like, completely.
I love Jeremy I think more
than I could ever imagine
anyone loving anyone and
or anything, just
and just to hato watch that,
it kind of feels like
being on a roller coaster
and going down into fire.
It's like the worst feeling
is just watching your
who you love being taken away.
I quit the show
when I was 18.
And then when I was, like, 19,
they called me and begged me
to come to Hawaii
and do one episode,
which that one episode
was gonna, like, explain
to the audience
"why Hobie left."
I ended up coming back
for, like, a Baywatch: Hawaii.
And then three years later,
I did the Baywatch Reunion.
♪
I worked really hard.
I worked really hard
to get back in shape,
you know, kind of
come back and prove that
I got my stuff together,
because I had gotten sober
already by that point.
Jeremy.
Hey, Dad.
Summer and I are gonna
take the WaveRunner
over to this
more secluded beach.
We'll be back
before the wedding.
Hawaii was actually
so cool, man.
We swam with dolphins,
like, out in the open ocean
with Dave Navarro
and Carmen Electra.
Yeah.
A lot of people there, right?
So we all jumped in
and swam with dolphins,
like, out in the open ocean
hundreds of them.
It was so cool.
♪
Are you pretending
you're getting married
to Nicole Eggert?
♪
I would have.
I would have got married
to Nicole.
All right, here we go.
Go to one, please.
Four.
She always had
an edge to her, you know.
I mean, I grew up watching
Charles in Charge, too,
so she's like
my childhood dream
of, like, being cool enough,
old enough
to, like, maybe
make a move on Nicole.
And she was also very young,
you know,
but just a little out of my
age range until now.
So it's like, oh!
I don't know.
I put on my charms
and tried to woo her and
Jeremy and I
got to reconnect
at Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.
And Jeremy had really
gone through a lot
and was in
a really good place
and is just so open
and such a open soul.
And you don't have to put on
a show to be around him.
You can just be yourself
and he's himself,
and it's just all
very authentic.
So, you know,
it was really great
to spend that time
and reconnect.
I get really excited,
like it's gonna
change the entirety of my life
and it's gonna be
I'm gonna be there again.
I'm gonna be back there again.
I'm gonna be rich again,
I'm gonna be
be able to do it better
this time,
not ruin it this time,
you know.
And that Baywatch:
Hawaiian Wedding
was one of those things.
Oh, I'm sober.
I'm not all messed up.
I can go out there.
And then I went out there,
and I tried to stay sober.
I did, actually,
for the whole filming.
But as soon as
the filming was over, like,
I disappeared,
and I stayed on the island.
And then it got really ugly.
Really ugly, really fast.
It was epically painful.
♪
So, Nicole, in 2017,
during thesort of the height
of the #MeToo movement,
sort of made a flippant remark
to the media
about an allegation regarding
her co-star in
Charles in Charge.
And it got
a little bit of heat,
'cause people were
really like, "Oh"
you know, people were
paying attention.
Nicole Eggert would allege
that she had been
inappropriately touched
sexually by Scott Baio
while they were both working
on the sitcom Charles in Charge
when she was underage
and he was an adult.
You know, it's
such a confusing thing
for a young child at that age,
because, on one hand,
youryour
your hormones are crazy.
So when someone touches you
there,
it's not that it doesn't
feel good, because it does.
And that'sthat's
the fucked up part of it all.
Because it's so bad,
it's so wrong,
but then when you're touched
there, that feels good.
And it was time for me to get
that off of my chest and say,
I'm not gonna live
in denial anymore.
She calls me a rapist
and a child molester
almost daily to every
and any audience she can find.
And for months, we have proven
her story to be 100% false.
I knew that
the only way to heal from it
was to be
to lay it all out there.
Andand that's what happened.
And it was probably
one of the hardest things
I ever had to go through.
It's almost harderit's
almost harder than the abuse,
to be honest.
Now, even knowing that
a statute of limitations
has passed and there's
nothing legally
that can be done about it,
her getting peace of mind
has to be very freeing.
I was not happy or
comfortable with my sexuality.
It got me into a lot
of trouble on my last show.
Being who I was
and being the pretty one,
being the hot one,
got me into a dark,
dark place.
And that's why
I left Baywatch.
When you are seen as that
creature or that image,
it's hard not to buy into it.
It took me a long time
to get in touch
with my sexuality,
a lot of therapy
and a lot of thinking
and a lot of relationships.
I just needed a break.
I just needed to sleep in,
be irresponsible.
I needed to, like, live
like a teenager in my 20s.
And so that's what I did.
I said, forget this,
I'm just gonna
I'm just gonna, you know,
sit back and relax
a little bit and just
take some time off.
And I needed that.
I needed that for my soul.
I just did.
I just needed to go out
and stay out too late.
What are you drinking?
A gimlet.
A vodka gimlet.
you know, and not be up
early in the morning
and hang with my friends
and go on trips
and just do all these, like,
things that I never got to do.
♪
And I sort of just
chose to live
off the fruits of my labor
for a while
and just really kind of
learn who I was,
and what was I doing,
and, you know,
was this for me?
Did I want to be an actress?
It's something that
fell in my lap.
It's nothing I ever,
you know, pursued.
So I had a lot
of soul searching to do.
I had a lot of just
needed time with me.
♪
And then I got pregnant.
♪
And then she was born,
and it was like
everything else went away.
And II met
unconditional love.
You know, raising this baby,
this baby girl, the best
best thing that
ever happened to me.
Taught me love and changed
my life in an instant.
So to feel that was like,
whoa, whoa.
Um, it's overwhelming.
And I just suddenly
wasn't Nicole anymore.
I wasI was Dilyn's mother.
And it gave me a purpose.
JustI got to shift.
I got to shift and
and start a different life.
♪
Hello, Mommy.
Hello, baby.
There's two words that really
make me absolutely insane
has-been and not relevant.
Tell that to my kids,
you know,
that I'm not relevant.
Nicole Eggert has done
a million different things
sometimes acting,
sometimes reality.
♪
I think that
I got more attractive
after Baywatch.
My 30s were way better
than my 20s, way better.
♪
And then I had
another child at 40.
♪
Well, things were going
really great.
Things were great
until they weren't.
And Iyou know, I've been
diagnosed with breast cancer.
And there's just really only
one way to deal with it,
and that's to face it
and fight it
and enjoy any time
you have left doing it,
you know?
'Cause if this is it
♪
I don't want
I don't want my last days
to be sad.
I don't want my kids
to remember me being sad.
So the day I shaved my head,
my daughter came home
from schoolmy youngest
and I said to her,
"Let's do it.
"Let's just get out
those buzzers,
and let's shave it off."
And she's shaving it,
and she's helping me,
and she's like,
"It's a good-looking head."
And, you know,
I was free of having to worry
about the hair anymore.
It just was one less thing
to think about.
It was one more step
forward in that journey.
And this is my truth.
This is who I am.
This is me.
This is what I look like
right now.
And this is who I am right now.
And I'm done hiding.
I'm done covering up
for anything.
All I know how to do
to be happy is be authentic.
Andand I'm finding that
that does meit does me well.
I'm so proud of you
and how good you're doing.
- Thank you.
- Holy smoke.
Last week,
I wasn't doing so well.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
- What was going on?
- It's like, you know, they put
- all this poison in you.
- Mm-hmm.
So you have to keep
the spirit up.
You have to keep the body
in a recovery mode
so that it can recover
from this horrible treatment.
And I only just bounced back,
and I have to go back again
Tuesday.
Can you believe
that's where we're at?
I'm old and gray, you know.
You got kids.
Yeah, but you're still
so much younger than me.
- You're doing really good.
- Huh?
- You're doing really good.
- Thanks.
You look really good.
Thank you.
- I love you so much.
- I love you so much.
This is from the top again.
Going from the top.
♪
MATTHEW: Baywatch had
an interesting trajectory.
It went up,
and then it went down,
and then it went really down.
But everything runs
its course.
Baywatch: Hawaii ran
two years,
and it was then canceled.
A couple years later,
we realized that
we could possibly sell
a movie,
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.
We had, I think,
22 cast members,
and many of them had never
worked together before.
They'd been in different
seasons of the show.
The chemistry was amazing.
Everybody loved being there.
We had to shoot the whole movie
in 19 days.
Hey, everybody,
Carmen Electra here in Hawaii
shooting the Baywatch
wedding reunion movie,
whatever the hell it's called.
We're all just really happy
to be here.
Everybody set?
Coming into
the Hawaiian Wedding,
I hadn't seen, you know, some
of these cast members forever.
Alexandra Paul and I had
a catfight scene.
♪
Going down alike,
this huge slide.
I mean, itit was so much fun.
Here we go.
Give me the right
shoulder so we can see it.
We have speed on the camera.
♪
And cut. All right.
And it was also
coming to the end of the '90s,
so the cycle was kind of
taking a natural curve also.
So it started
kind of declining.
♪
Baywatch was a whirlwind
of epic highs and bitter lows.
Jeremy went through just a
aa number of infractions,
you know,
coming out of Baywatch.
You know, arrests, drug use.
Jeremy's hit rock bottom
probably 100 times.
And he knows
it all is from Baywatch.
And it's not Baywatch's fault.
It just happens to be where
he was when he was growing up.
♪
Jeremy, how are you, man?
It's good to be free, huh?
Yes.
How you feeling, buddy?
Yeah, you know what?
You know, you look good,
I got to say
I got to say that.
I've been through
tougher times.
I'm just happy to be out.
Jeremy's sobriety was
a problem.
I know every time he's fallen,
he wants to get better.
Sometimes
you gotta hit bottom
before you can bounce back,
you know?
I thought
I'd already hit bottom.
I thought I was already there.
I thought I was done
with that thing.
14 years clean and sober.
And you know what?
I went back to drugs.
I went back to partying
and heartache
heartache and disaster.
And it only got worse
from there.
Addiction is
such a scary thing.
When he started kind of taking
a few steps back
and found himself in trouble,
I was like, "This can't be."
I had to go to rehab.
I had to go to jail.
When Jeremy went to jail,
Alexandra Paul called me
and said, you know,
do you want to go down there
andand visit him
and make sure he's OK?
And I was like, "Of course."
I justmy heart stopped.
And I was like,
"I can't let my friend,
"my family member
just sit it jail.
"This isn't right.
"This just isn't right.
"There's something wrong
with the system.
He needs recovery,
and he needs help."
It's hard to see a kid
at that age
in that situation
and know where he comes from
and also know that
he has a huge fucking heart.
He didn't belong there.
It wasn'tit's not
where Jeremy should be.
I don't think
he would've made it.
Alexandra Paul,
David Chokachi, Nicole Eggert,
they came to visit me in jail.
They really were there for me
when I needed them the most.
I always have this, like,
want to protect him
and want to make sure he's OK
and check in with him,
because I feel like
a lot of times,
people won't fight
for themselves all the time.
What about rehab?
I'm going
I'm on my way there.
I'm gonna go see Dr. Drew
and freaking Bob Forrest
right now.
I'm gonna go crying with
my tail between my legs, man.
All right.
Hey, listen,
humble is good, bro.
Listen, I'm wishing you
the best, huh?
- God bless.
-All right.
Take care.
Good luck to everything, huh?
- Thank you.
-Take care, bye.
I did five years
on probation.
Fought that battle,
fought that war,
got in there, messed it up,
came out alive.
I've done so much work
to kind of downplay Baywatch
and to get away from it
or to forget about it.
I did things over and over
again, even though it hurt me,
even though it hurt my family,
even though it hurt
my finances,
even though it hurt my career.
They want me to be on TV.
They want me to talk
about Baywatch.
What do I want to talk about?
I want to talk about this.
Recovery is the only thread
that connects me to sanity
or connects me to the potential
of an amazing life.
Without recovery,
I got nothing.
I'm completely flippin' nuts.
Jeremy finally gave up
chasing the high.
I don't need to do drugs.
I don't need to be
an actor anymore.
I don't need to be famous.
And Jeremy's new high
is helping other people.
Where he's at in life,
what's important to him,
it's all changed
for the better.
Together awhile ♪
Are we gonna have to start
in space ♪
So just fly with me tonight ♪
Go far beyond the sky ♪
Let's just get away ♪
Fly away to never land ♪
As long as you hold my hand ♪
Speed it up,
slow it down, down, down ♪
You ain't gotta make
a sound, sound, sound ♪
You got us going
round, round, round ♪
Everybody's going
round, round, round ♪
Speed it up,
slow it down, down, down ♪
Ain't nobody tell me
now, now, now ♪
How does it feel
to be the big 4-0,
and what's your reflect?
Hey, Jeremy!
Yeah!
David H. is here,
if you want to just come up
OK!
Welcome him for a sec.
All right!
Hey, dude.
Happy birthday, bro.
Yeah.
Yeah, man! Whoo!
He's not Knight Rider
anymore, you know.
He's not a superhero.
And I justI really hope
we get to be more close.
I'm in a place in my life
where I can be
a better friend to him.
We've done huge things
together,
epic things together.
We've shared big
experience together.
We've kept secrets
for each other, you know.
You don'tyou don't want
to go too long without
talking to your big brother.
Most embarrassing moment was
when we were up
at the Kern River.
My mom bought me
a pocket knife.
We're in an inflatable raft
going down
a fucking whitewater rapids
with $100,000 cameras,
$100,000 sound equipment,
actors and hair and makeup,
and I'm like,
I wonder if this knife
would go
Yeah!
And David
And so I
I took the rap for it.
I took the rap for it.
OK, I'll take the rap for it.
And then he did it again!
The second boat!
What is wrong with him?
Shame on you
And now here we are,
he just turned 40.
What would be some
fatherly advice
for someone such as
Jeremy Jackson?
Well, you know what?
The fatherly advice,
not to engage.
-Yeah.
- Don't engage.
Don't engage.
Yeah. With this?
Don't engage with anything.
-Yeah.
- Just laugh.
-Yeah.
- Justjust let it go, man.
I mean, let it go.
-Amen.
- Let it go.
If you let it go, it works.
Speed it up,
slow it down, down, down ♪
You ain't gotta make
a sound, sound, sound ♪
You got us going
round, round, round ♪
Anybody can achieve
anything they want in life.
The problem is, you don't
really know what the costs are
before you jump
into the deep end.
You can only know
through experience.
Would I do it all over again?
Probably not.
Probably not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪
Yeah!
♪
If you look at Baywatch
from the actor's perspective,
it was an opportunity
to be put on the map.
♪
But for most of the Baywatch
actors, nothing came from it.
It was too much, too soon,
and it had a bit of a stigma
to it afterwards.
♪
When I left Baywatch,
I left because
I really wanted a film career.
That was extraordinarily
important to me.
Some of the most incredible
opportunities I had, I blew.
I just self-sabotaged
because I was so scared.
I had the opportunity to go
and read for Martin Scorsese
for Sharon Stone's part
in Casino.
- Come on!
- Yes!
Thank you, very nice.
I told you I was hot tonight.
And I said no.
And what I did was,
I burned so many bridges,
major bridges in Hollywood,
because nobody understood
why I wasn't going.
Just, "She said no"?
Who does she think she is?
I was terrified.
I didn't feel good enough.
II grappled with
taking it off my résumé.
It was two years of my life.
It's the most number one
watched show in the world.
You can't take it off
your résumé.
But it really stinks now,
because I'm this woman
who's trying to act still,
and yet, I still can't be
taken seriously
because I was a Baywatch babe.
Most people
in Hollywood look down on it.
I carried that kind of shit
with me, that Baywatch shame.
When we wrapped on Baywatch,
I was able to go back and have
a full-time job as a fireman.
I feel sorry for
the other actors
who had to go back
out in the street
and start peddling their wares.
Mike Newman, he went
back to being a firefighter.
Most people don't realize,
Mike Newman was a firefighter
still while he was
filming the show.
He never stopped his job.
He'd go back and forth.
♪
The best person,
I think, on the show
was Newmie,
because he was real.
♪
Life after Baywatch
has been great,
because I retired
from the fire department and
after 25 years
and I built a house
on the North Shore of Oahu,
and I love to go over there
and surf.
♪
My house is
literally two blocks
from where we shot the show.
♪
I knew that after I was
shooting Baywatch: Hawaii,
I had gotten a chance
to look at houses and
and see property.
I knew I wanted
to retire over here.
♪
So my relationship
with Mike Newman
is pretty interesting.
I had heard that
he had Parkinson's
through Nicole,
and didn't know if
he would want to participate.
♪
It's kind of tough
getting diagnosed
with something like that.
In a moment,
when the doctor tells you
you have Parkinson's,
your whole life changes.
♪
You have to reorder your life,
'cause all those things
that you had planned
for your family and yourself
and adventures that
you wanted to go on,
you're not going.
♪
This is the part I always
♪
Mike Newman's not
a guyhe's not a crier,
so when you see that,
you know it's serious.
This guy's hurting
in a number of ways,
not just physically.
It'sit's painful for him.
So Parkinson's is
the second most
common disease
behind Alzheimer's,
whichthat's a lot of people.
When I wake up in the morning,
I'm weak and jittery.
I take about 10 medications
a day.
I take the drugs that actually
boost my dopamine level
and make it more potent.
♪
How are you gonna
change gears?
How are you gonna
adjust your life
so that you can get
those things out of it
that you wanted to,
but there's also gonna be
a lot of things
that you can't do?
♪
He still trains.
I mean, he can't walk,
but he can swim.
♪
I love to swim.
And the great thing
about Parkinson's is
that the more you work out
and the more exercise you get,
the slower your disease
progresses.
He started swimming
all the time,
and he could smoke me
in the pool.
His legs don't work.
Like, it's all upper body.
He's
And legs are barel
and you're like, holy shit.
And as I'm hanging out
with him, I'm going
I'm like, that's the story.
It's the story of this guy
is just not gonna give up.
He's not gonna succumb
to this illness.
♪
When I'm paddling
out in the ocean
and I'm by myself,
there's a certain amount
of danger to that.
And you've got to be
a little bit more conservative
in the way
you conduct yourself,
because you're just not
as strong as you would be.
So there's a little bit
of danger involved
being out there by yourself.
But I always paddle
with a buddy if I can.
♪
We would hang out.
And he was so inspiring
to watch.
And I remember one day,
we were
I used to take him,
when he could
when he was
a little more mobile,
I would take him down to
the beach, like, once a week.
And he has trouble getting
from the sand to the water.
But once he's in the water,
it's like smooth sailing.
Getting him from the water
to the sand out to the car
is very difficult,
because he'she's shot.
You gotta pull him out
and go in.
And he was pretty much
just holding onto my back
the whole way up the beach.
And this lady came up to us.
She was a nurse.
And she stopped, she goes,
that was the most inspiring
thing I've ever seen.
♪
And that's when
I knew I had a story.
♪
It just sucks, like
you know, lifelife happens.
♪
I guess the blessing is
his son has come up
through the whole program,
and he's a full-time
lifeguard now.
Big bubble.
Good boy.
And big bubble and big arms.
You gotta swim over there.
Yeah, you gotta swim over.
So we look at
the Newmans' home videos.
Mike's son is
a full-on waterman.
He grew up in a pool.
He grew up doing ocean swims.
He grew up prone paddling.
You know, he grew up
watching his dad
on a TV show about lifeguards.
♪
It's ironic, because
this little bit of sand
has been good to me.
And now it's starting to be
good for my son.
Chris Newman,
who looks just like Mike
it's almost funny when
you see 'em side by side
Chris decided to be
a lifeguard.
And Mike did not tell him,
push him, ask him.
Chris did it on his own.
That's really cool
that Chris is working
in Will Rogers headquarters,
because it's the same place
that we shot the show.
And I'm very proud of him.
♪
Mike is a competitor,
and he's not competing
against other athletes
or other lifeguards anymore.
He's competing
against the illness.
And he will continue
to compete with that
until the day he dies.
♪
Mike has declined
in the four years
that I've known him,
to the point
it's hard to watch sometimes.
♪
But he's nothe's not just
gonna sit in a corner
because it's a degenerative
disease,
and what I can do today,
I'm not gonna be able
to do tomorrow.
What motivates me,
being a Parkinson's patient,
to get out of bed
in the morning is,
there's plenty of stuff
I can go do
and plenty of stuff
to keep me busy.
♪
I'm just gonna go
until the wheels fall off.
♪
♪
It's great
to see all the actors
involved in this documentary.
They each have
their own story,
and Baywatch has been
a big part of their life.
Good morning, angel.
♪
Hello.
Everything is
always happening.
Everything is always
happening.
Changes are always
taking place.
Erika and I were together
when I bought my place here.
I knew this is where
I wanted to be,
or was going to end up
when I was done.
Come on over here.
Hang right there.
I did the right thing,
and I'm a supervisor
at the ski school.
All right.
Hey, move fast!
Go that way.
I did not know that.
It makes sense.
How'd he end up here?
- I think we all
have to reinvent ourselves
from time to time.
When you're an actor
in Hollywood, chasing,
you couldn't relax,
because you were always,
"When's the next gig?
What am I gonna do?
"I gotta stay in shape.
I gotta be in an acting class.
I gotta move over here.
I gotta meet this person."
Blah, blah, blah.
And it's just constant
go, go, go, go, go.
So when we decided to come
here, I found peace.
Sounds familiar.
I work on the mountain.
When I go home now,
my mind's off.
I don't think about work.
I'm good.
♪
Life after Baywatch for
a lot of the actors
is interesting.
Michael Bergin has
had this amazing career,
and doing real estate
instead of, you know, trying
to live up to this Baywatch,
you know, look.
There's just so much more
to people
than what they look like.
It was fun.
I've been off the show
for 25, 30 years,
and it's just like,
people still know my name.
When I tell people
that I was on Baywatch,
they love hearing that.
They get a big kick out of it.
Do I sound like
an old-timer when I say,
they just don't make shows
like they used to?
It's really just
the experience.
And we've watched people
grow up.
We've watched some people
never age, like David.
On your left, David!
On your left!
David Hasselhoff is
still a huge music star
and still touring
around the world.
You know, he's still the guy.
And he's in his 70s.
It's the gift
that keeps on giving.
It's given me
an incredible life.
It's given me fame
worldwide fame.
Everyone is set?
Action!
The show,
it really wasn't good,
but we made it good,
because we had passion.
Oh, come on, Mitch,
you must have known
I've always had
a thing for you.
♪
What kind of thing?
A forbidden fruit
kind of thing.
Pamela Anderson became
an icon,
like so many others before her.
I don't want to think I've
had this really serious career,
but I've made it my own.
So I'm really proud
of what I've been able
to accomplish with being
exactly who I want to be.
And I'm really proud of
everything I've done, almost.
She's a woman
of a certain age,
and she's not ashamed
to show you.
She's brave.
Greg Alan Williams has had
an incredible acting career.
Still working on huge TV shows,
constantly in movies.
It is a joke.
I guess that makes us
He's currently on
Righteous Gemstones,
and he's also very famous
for the movie
Remember the Titans.
You all didn't come out here
to practice,
'cause champions pay the price!
So I wrote this essay
about Baywatch.
One of my daughters is
really dark-skinned.
And one day,
she said to me that
she didn't think
she was pretty.
And I said, "You are too
beautiful to watch the bay.
"You're not
what they're selling.
"You would steal focus
"in that deep, dark,
sun-kissed skin
and those big-ass lips."
You know,
that essay that I wrote
for my daughter was
my way of saying to her,
"You are beautiful."
Embrace the beauty, and
and, you know, it's
it can only be inspiring.
I'm glad that when
I walk into a room now,
it's not just only me.
If Baywatch is rebooted,
it's going to be
a completely different show.
I think you're going
to see people
of all different
ethnic backgrounds.
They would need
girls of all sizes.
They would need, you know,
bigger size models.
They would need bigger butts.
Now looking at it,
you know, we have evolved.
And I think that, you know,
women are taking a stance
and saying, hey, wait a minute,
we're not sex symbols.
We are more than that.
♪
I think that it would be
more about strength and power.
♪
The only way
I think you can do it
is if you did it
like I personally think
it should have been done
to begin with,
which is respect
the job of the lifeguard.
Hello, beachgoers,
this is a safety announcement
from the lifeguards.
It's a real gig, man.
Just keep it real.
Don't make it about
the butt floss and the boobs.
♪
I think you gotta keep
the slow-mo running, though.
I think that's gonna be
a constant.
Baywatch is iconic.
Timeless.
It was magical.
I owe everything
to being on that show
at that time in my life.
It's like hitting a home run
in the World Series.
♪
It's history.
It's history in the making.
Love you, Baywatch!
♪
To this day,
Baywatch is still mentioned.
Baywatch never ends.
It's forever.
♪
♪
Some people stand
in the darkness ♪
Afraid to step
into the light ♪
Some people need ♪
To help somebody ♪
When the edge
of surrender's inside ♪
Don't you worry ♪
It's gonna be all right ♪
♪
'Cause I'm always ready ♪
I won't let you
out of my sight ♪
♪
I'll be ready ♪
Oh, I'll be ready ♪
Never you fear ♪
No, don't you fear ♪
I'll be ready ♪
Oh, I'll be ready ♪
Never you fear ♪
Oh, don't you fear ♪
I'll be ready ♪
Oh, I'll be ready ♪
Never you fear ♪
Oh, don't you fear ♪
I'll be ready ♪
Forever and always,
forever and always ♪
Oh, forever and always ♪
Forever and ever ♪
Forever and always ♪
I'm always here ♪
♪
♪
Everyone is set?
♪
Action!
Everything is
always happening.
Everything is always
happening.
Changes are always
taking place.
♪
For most
of the Baywatch actors,
the show had a bit of
a stigma to it afterwards.
I grappled with
taking it off my résumé.
I can't take it off my résumé.
It was two years of my life.
Yeah, I remember you
from Baywatch.
Oh, yeah,
but I've done other things.
Um, not right now.
Some of the most incredible
opportunities I had, I blew.
I just self-sabotaged,
because I was so scared.
Things were great
until they weren't.
♪
What are you drinking?
A gimlet.
A vodka gimlet.
At 8:30 in the morning?
It's a whirlwind of epic
highs and bitter lows.
In a moment,
when the doctor tells you
you have Parkinson's,
your whole life changes.
When we were paddling,
he'd be up my ass on my board.
Like, come on,
we're going further.
And this time, he's like,
"That's as far
as I can go, guys."
♪
Life after Baywatch
for a lot of the actors is
interesting.
It was so
life-changing for everybody
in such a different way.
Everybody has
a different story.
I did everything,
and I loved it.
Do I sound like an old-timer
when I say,
they just don't make
shows like they used to?
♪
♪
I'm 14.
I just stole a check out
of my mailbox for five grand
it has my name on it
to grab a limo
so we can go to the club
and tip the bouncer a grand
to let us in.
♪
I mean, even when I was 16,
it was already like,
you're a has-been, you know?
So I've been dealing with that
for a really long time.
♪
Jeremy Jackson had
a bad reputation.
And it was just like,
oh, it's the guy
from Baywatch that does meth.
Like, that guy is scary.
And that drug, crystal meth,
it changes who you are
and it makes you
it makes anyone
a fucking monster.
♪
I think
what concerned me most
about a lot of my castmates
was that they didn't understand
that this was gonna end,
and that they needed to be
ready when it ended.
That was a crazy time.
I mean, that was
you know, I was in
full-blown fuck it
full-blown fuck it mode.
Thatthat drug had a hold
of me, and, you know,
I was just spiraling
down for sure.
And I was very stuck there.
I didn't have
the power to abstain.
I left Jeremy's dad
when Jeremy was
three months old.
And he was in and out of jail.
And he could have been
anything he wanted to be,
but he was a drug addict.
So from a pretty early age,
when anybody would ask me
about my dad
or where my dad was,
I would just tell 'em
that he was dead.
♪
Jeremy was given crystal meth
at about 18 years old.
♪
And that wasthat was
the turning point for Jeremy.
And that was on his last
season of the show.
And I remember David saying,
are you, like, smoking pot
or something?
I was like, Jesus,
they think I'm smoking pot?
I mean, I could never
tell them the truth.
What would they think?
When you haven't slept
for five days
and you've been smoking
crystal meth, you know,
having somebody look you
in the eyes and say,
"Dude, are you OK?"
It's like the worst thing
that can happen.
That's how it starts.
And then by the time
the show ended,
he was a full-blown
drug addict.
I had been up for five days,
and I showed up to the set
and couldn't really even speak.
It was like marbles
were in my mouth.
Mymy tongue
wouldn't work right.
I couldn't "pronunciate" right.
I kept messing up,
kept forgetting,
kept forgetting,
kept forgetting.
I got so embarrassed
so embarrassed
that I had fallen
from my ability to perform,
fallen from one-take Jeremy
to, like,
"What's going on
with this guy?"
He knew he was fucking up.
And instead of
actually acknowledging that
he had a problem
and admitting to the problem
and maybe getting help,
he basically told everyone
to fuck themselves.
II just said,
"You know what?
I'm out of here."
And I literally put my
middle finger up in the air
and I told everybody
to fuck off.
And I just walked away with
my middle finger in the air.
I just walked away,
the whole way back to my car,
and just took off.
Took off.
That's when
I turned my phone off.
That's when I said, "Screw it."
That's when
I pulled the curtain.
And that's when I went dark.
My life slipped through
my hands like sand.
♪
I started hanging out
with gang members,
thieves and criminals
and prostitutes
and drug dealers,
and that became
my whole world.
I don't know.
I don't know how or why I just
pulled the curtain on one life
and I just stepped
into this other life,
like, completely.
I love Jeremy I think more
than I could ever imagine
anyone loving anyone and
or anything, just
and just to hato watch that,
it kind of feels like
being on a roller coaster
and going down into fire.
It's like the worst feeling
is just watching your
who you love being taken away.
I quit the show
when I was 18.
And then when I was, like, 19,
they called me and begged me
to come to Hawaii
and do one episode,
which that one episode
was gonna, like, explain
to the audience
"why Hobie left."
I ended up coming back
for, like, a Baywatch: Hawaii.
And then three years later,
I did the Baywatch Reunion.
♪
I worked really hard.
I worked really hard
to get back in shape,
you know, kind of
come back and prove that
I got my stuff together,
because I had gotten sober
already by that point.
Jeremy.
Hey, Dad.
Summer and I are gonna
take the WaveRunner
over to this
more secluded beach.
We'll be back
before the wedding.
Hawaii was actually
so cool, man.
We swam with dolphins,
like, out in the open ocean
with Dave Navarro
and Carmen Electra.
Yeah.
A lot of people there, right?
So we all jumped in
and swam with dolphins,
like, out in the open ocean
hundreds of them.
It was so cool.
♪
Are you pretending
you're getting married
to Nicole Eggert?
♪
I would have.
I would have got married
to Nicole.
All right, here we go.
Go to one, please.
Four.
She always had
an edge to her, you know.
I mean, I grew up watching
Charles in Charge, too,
so she's like
my childhood dream
of, like, being cool enough,
old enough
to, like, maybe
make a move on Nicole.
And she was also very young,
you know,
but just a little out of my
age range until now.
So it's like, oh!
I don't know.
I put on my charms
and tried to woo her and
Jeremy and I
got to reconnect
at Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.
And Jeremy had really
gone through a lot
and was in
a really good place
and is just so open
and such a open soul.
And you don't have to put on
a show to be around him.
You can just be yourself
and he's himself,
and it's just all
very authentic.
So, you know,
it was really great
to spend that time
and reconnect.
I get really excited,
like it's gonna
change the entirety of my life
and it's gonna be
I'm gonna be there again.
I'm gonna be back there again.
I'm gonna be rich again,
I'm gonna be
be able to do it better
this time,
not ruin it this time,
you know.
And that Baywatch:
Hawaiian Wedding
was one of those things.
Oh, I'm sober.
I'm not all messed up.
I can go out there.
And then I went out there,
and I tried to stay sober.
I did, actually,
for the whole filming.
But as soon as
the filming was over, like,
I disappeared,
and I stayed on the island.
And then it got really ugly.
Really ugly, really fast.
It was epically painful.
♪
So, Nicole, in 2017,
during thesort of the height
of the #MeToo movement,
sort of made a flippant remark
to the media
about an allegation regarding
her co-star in
Charles in Charge.
And it got
a little bit of heat,
'cause people were
really like, "Oh"
you know, people were
paying attention.
Nicole Eggert would allege
that she had been
inappropriately touched
sexually by Scott Baio
while they were both working
on the sitcom Charles in Charge
when she was underage
and he was an adult.
You know, it's
such a confusing thing
for a young child at that age,
because, on one hand,
youryour
your hormones are crazy.
So when someone touches you
there,
it's not that it doesn't
feel good, because it does.
And that'sthat's
the fucked up part of it all.
Because it's so bad,
it's so wrong,
but then when you're touched
there, that feels good.
And it was time for me to get
that off of my chest and say,
I'm not gonna live
in denial anymore.
She calls me a rapist
and a child molester
almost daily to every
and any audience she can find.
And for months, we have proven
her story to be 100% false.
I knew that
the only way to heal from it
was to be
to lay it all out there.
Andand that's what happened.
And it was probably
one of the hardest things
I ever had to go through.
It's almost harderit's
almost harder than the abuse,
to be honest.
Now, even knowing that
a statute of limitations
has passed and there's
nothing legally
that can be done about it,
her getting peace of mind
has to be very freeing.
I was not happy or
comfortable with my sexuality.
It got me into a lot
of trouble on my last show.
Being who I was
and being the pretty one,
being the hot one,
got me into a dark,
dark place.
And that's why
I left Baywatch.
When you are seen as that
creature or that image,
it's hard not to buy into it.
It took me a long time
to get in touch
with my sexuality,
a lot of therapy
and a lot of thinking
and a lot of relationships.
I just needed a break.
I just needed to sleep in,
be irresponsible.
I needed to, like, live
like a teenager in my 20s.
And so that's what I did.
I said, forget this,
I'm just gonna
I'm just gonna, you know,
sit back and relax
a little bit and just
take some time off.
And I needed that.
I needed that for my soul.
I just did.
I just needed to go out
and stay out too late.
What are you drinking?
A gimlet.
A vodka gimlet.
you know, and not be up
early in the morning
and hang with my friends
and go on trips
and just do all these, like,
things that I never got to do.
♪
And I sort of just
chose to live
off the fruits of my labor
for a while
and just really kind of
learn who I was,
and what was I doing,
and, you know,
was this for me?
Did I want to be an actress?
It's something that
fell in my lap.
It's nothing I ever,
you know, pursued.
So I had a lot
of soul searching to do.
I had a lot of just
needed time with me.
♪
And then I got pregnant.
♪
And then she was born,
and it was like
everything else went away.
And II met
unconditional love.
You know, raising this baby,
this baby girl, the best
best thing that
ever happened to me.
Taught me love and changed
my life in an instant.
So to feel that was like,
whoa, whoa.
Um, it's overwhelming.
And I just suddenly
wasn't Nicole anymore.
I wasI was Dilyn's mother.
And it gave me a purpose.
JustI got to shift.
I got to shift and
and start a different life.
♪
Hello, Mommy.
Hello, baby.
There's two words that really
make me absolutely insane
has-been and not relevant.
Tell that to my kids,
you know,
that I'm not relevant.
Nicole Eggert has done
a million different things
sometimes acting,
sometimes reality.
♪
I think that
I got more attractive
after Baywatch.
My 30s were way better
than my 20s, way better.
♪
And then I had
another child at 40.
♪
Well, things were going
really great.
Things were great
until they weren't.
And Iyou know, I've been
diagnosed with breast cancer.
And there's just really only
one way to deal with it,
and that's to face it
and fight it
and enjoy any time
you have left doing it,
you know?
'Cause if this is it
♪
I don't want
I don't want my last days
to be sad.
I don't want my kids
to remember me being sad.
So the day I shaved my head,
my daughter came home
from schoolmy youngest
and I said to her,
"Let's do it.
"Let's just get out
those buzzers,
and let's shave it off."
And she's shaving it,
and she's helping me,
and she's like,
"It's a good-looking head."
And, you know,
I was free of having to worry
about the hair anymore.
It just was one less thing
to think about.
It was one more step
forward in that journey.
And this is my truth.
This is who I am.
This is me.
This is what I look like
right now.
And this is who I am right now.
And I'm done hiding.
I'm done covering up
for anything.
All I know how to do
to be happy is be authentic.
Andand I'm finding that
that does meit does me well.
I'm so proud of you
and how good you're doing.
- Thank you.
- Holy smoke.
Last week,
I wasn't doing so well.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
- What was going on?
- It's like, you know, they put
- all this poison in you.
- Mm-hmm.
So you have to keep
the spirit up.
You have to keep the body
in a recovery mode
so that it can recover
from this horrible treatment.
And I only just bounced back,
and I have to go back again
Tuesday.
Can you believe
that's where we're at?
I'm old and gray, you know.
You got kids.
Yeah, but you're still
so much younger than me.
- You're doing really good.
- Huh?
- You're doing really good.
- Thanks.
You look really good.
Thank you.
- I love you so much.
- I love you so much.
This is from the top again.
Going from the top.
♪
MATTHEW: Baywatch had
an interesting trajectory.
It went up,
and then it went down,
and then it went really down.
But everything runs
its course.
Baywatch: Hawaii ran
two years,
and it was then canceled.
A couple years later,
we realized that
we could possibly sell
a movie,
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.
We had, I think,
22 cast members,
and many of them had never
worked together before.
They'd been in different
seasons of the show.
The chemistry was amazing.
Everybody loved being there.
We had to shoot the whole movie
in 19 days.
Hey, everybody,
Carmen Electra here in Hawaii
shooting the Baywatch
wedding reunion movie,
whatever the hell it's called.
We're all just really happy
to be here.
Everybody set?
Coming into
the Hawaiian Wedding,
I hadn't seen, you know, some
of these cast members forever.
Alexandra Paul and I had
a catfight scene.
♪
Going down alike,
this huge slide.
I mean, itit was so much fun.
Here we go.
Give me the right
shoulder so we can see it.
We have speed on the camera.
♪
And cut. All right.
And it was also
coming to the end of the '90s,
so the cycle was kind of
taking a natural curve also.
So it started
kind of declining.
♪
Baywatch was a whirlwind
of epic highs and bitter lows.
Jeremy went through just a
aa number of infractions,
you know,
coming out of Baywatch.
You know, arrests, drug use.
Jeremy's hit rock bottom
probably 100 times.
And he knows
it all is from Baywatch.
And it's not Baywatch's fault.
It just happens to be where
he was when he was growing up.
♪
Jeremy, how are you, man?
It's good to be free, huh?
Yes.
How you feeling, buddy?
Yeah, you know what?
You know, you look good,
I got to say
I got to say that.
I've been through
tougher times.
I'm just happy to be out.
Jeremy's sobriety was
a problem.
I know every time he's fallen,
he wants to get better.
Sometimes
you gotta hit bottom
before you can bounce back,
you know?
I thought
I'd already hit bottom.
I thought I was already there.
I thought I was done
with that thing.
14 years clean and sober.
And you know what?
I went back to drugs.
I went back to partying
and heartache
heartache and disaster.
And it only got worse
from there.
Addiction is
such a scary thing.
When he started kind of taking
a few steps back
and found himself in trouble,
I was like, "This can't be."
I had to go to rehab.
I had to go to jail.
When Jeremy went to jail,
Alexandra Paul called me
and said, you know,
do you want to go down there
andand visit him
and make sure he's OK?
And I was like, "Of course."
I justmy heart stopped.
And I was like,
"I can't let my friend,
"my family member
just sit it jail.
"This isn't right.
"This just isn't right.
"There's something wrong
with the system.
He needs recovery,
and he needs help."
It's hard to see a kid
at that age
in that situation
and know where he comes from
and also know that
he has a huge fucking heart.
He didn't belong there.
It wasn'tit's not
where Jeremy should be.
I don't think
he would've made it.
Alexandra Paul,
David Chokachi, Nicole Eggert,
they came to visit me in jail.
They really were there for me
when I needed them the most.
I always have this, like,
want to protect him
and want to make sure he's OK
and check in with him,
because I feel like
a lot of times,
people won't fight
for themselves all the time.
What about rehab?
I'm going
I'm on my way there.
I'm gonna go see Dr. Drew
and freaking Bob Forrest
right now.
I'm gonna go crying with
my tail between my legs, man.
All right.
Hey, listen,
humble is good, bro.
Listen, I'm wishing you
the best, huh?
- God bless.
-All right.
Take care.
Good luck to everything, huh?
- Thank you.
-Take care, bye.
I did five years
on probation.
Fought that battle,
fought that war,
got in there, messed it up,
came out alive.
I've done so much work
to kind of downplay Baywatch
and to get away from it
or to forget about it.
I did things over and over
again, even though it hurt me,
even though it hurt my family,
even though it hurt
my finances,
even though it hurt my career.
They want me to be on TV.
They want me to talk
about Baywatch.
What do I want to talk about?
I want to talk about this.
Recovery is the only thread
that connects me to sanity
or connects me to the potential
of an amazing life.
Without recovery,
I got nothing.
I'm completely flippin' nuts.
Jeremy finally gave up
chasing the high.
I don't need to do drugs.
I don't need to be
an actor anymore.
I don't need to be famous.
And Jeremy's new high
is helping other people.
Where he's at in life,
what's important to him,
it's all changed
for the better.
Together awhile ♪
Are we gonna have to start
in space ♪
So just fly with me tonight ♪
Go far beyond the sky ♪
Let's just get away ♪
Fly away to never land ♪
As long as you hold my hand ♪
Speed it up,
slow it down, down, down ♪
You ain't gotta make
a sound, sound, sound ♪
You got us going
round, round, round ♪
Everybody's going
round, round, round ♪
Speed it up,
slow it down, down, down ♪
Ain't nobody tell me
now, now, now ♪
How does it feel
to be the big 4-0,
and what's your reflect?
Hey, Jeremy!
Yeah!
David H. is here,
if you want to just come up
OK!
Welcome him for a sec.
All right!
Hey, dude.
Happy birthday, bro.
Yeah.
Yeah, man! Whoo!
He's not Knight Rider
anymore, you know.
He's not a superhero.
And I justI really hope
we get to be more close.
I'm in a place in my life
where I can be
a better friend to him.
We've done huge things
together,
epic things together.
We've shared big
experience together.
We've kept secrets
for each other, you know.
You don'tyou don't want
to go too long without
talking to your big brother.
Most embarrassing moment was
when we were up
at the Kern River.
My mom bought me
a pocket knife.
We're in an inflatable raft
going down
a fucking whitewater rapids
with $100,000 cameras,
$100,000 sound equipment,
actors and hair and makeup,
and I'm like,
I wonder if this knife
would go
Yeah!
And David
And so I
I took the rap for it.
I took the rap for it.
OK, I'll take the rap for it.
And then he did it again!
The second boat!
What is wrong with him?
Shame on you
And now here we are,
he just turned 40.
What would be some
fatherly advice
for someone such as
Jeremy Jackson?
Well, you know what?
The fatherly advice,
not to engage.
-Yeah.
- Don't engage.
Don't engage.
Yeah. With this?
Don't engage with anything.
-Yeah.
- Just laugh.
-Yeah.
- Justjust let it go, man.
I mean, let it go.
-Amen.
- Let it go.
If you let it go, it works.
Speed it up,
slow it down, down, down ♪
You ain't gotta make
a sound, sound, sound ♪
You got us going
round, round, round ♪
Anybody can achieve
anything they want in life.
The problem is, you don't
really know what the costs are
before you jump
into the deep end.
You can only know
through experience.
Would I do it all over again?
Probably not.
Probably not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪
Yeah!
♪
If you look at Baywatch
from the actor's perspective,
it was an opportunity
to be put on the map.
♪
But for most of the Baywatch
actors, nothing came from it.
It was too much, too soon,
and it had a bit of a stigma
to it afterwards.
♪
When I left Baywatch,
I left because
I really wanted a film career.
That was extraordinarily
important to me.
Some of the most incredible
opportunities I had, I blew.
I just self-sabotaged
because I was so scared.
I had the opportunity to go
and read for Martin Scorsese
for Sharon Stone's part
in Casino.
- Come on!
- Yes!
Thank you, very nice.
I told you I was hot tonight.
And I said no.
And what I did was,
I burned so many bridges,
major bridges in Hollywood,
because nobody understood
why I wasn't going.
Just, "She said no"?
Who does she think she is?
I was terrified.
I didn't feel good enough.
II grappled with
taking it off my résumé.
It was two years of my life.
It's the most number one
watched show in the world.
You can't take it off
your résumé.
But it really stinks now,
because I'm this woman
who's trying to act still,
and yet, I still can't be
taken seriously
because I was a Baywatch babe.
Most people
in Hollywood look down on it.
I carried that kind of shit
with me, that Baywatch shame.
When we wrapped on Baywatch,
I was able to go back and have
a full-time job as a fireman.
I feel sorry for
the other actors
who had to go back
out in the street
and start peddling their wares.
Mike Newman, he went
back to being a firefighter.
Most people don't realize,
Mike Newman was a firefighter
still while he was
filming the show.
He never stopped his job.
He'd go back and forth.
♪
The best person,
I think, on the show
was Newmie,
because he was real.
♪
Life after Baywatch
has been great,
because I retired
from the fire department and
after 25 years
and I built a house
on the North Shore of Oahu,
and I love to go over there
and surf.
♪
My house is
literally two blocks
from where we shot the show.
♪
I knew that after I was
shooting Baywatch: Hawaii,
I had gotten a chance
to look at houses and
and see property.
I knew I wanted
to retire over here.
♪
So my relationship
with Mike Newman
is pretty interesting.
I had heard that
he had Parkinson's
through Nicole,
and didn't know if
he would want to participate.
♪
It's kind of tough
getting diagnosed
with something like that.
In a moment,
when the doctor tells you
you have Parkinson's,
your whole life changes.
♪
You have to reorder your life,
'cause all those things
that you had planned
for your family and yourself
and adventures that
you wanted to go on,
you're not going.
♪
This is the part I always
♪
Mike Newman's not
a guyhe's not a crier,
so when you see that,
you know it's serious.
This guy's hurting
in a number of ways,
not just physically.
It'sit's painful for him.
So Parkinson's is
the second most
common disease
behind Alzheimer's,
whichthat's a lot of people.
When I wake up in the morning,
I'm weak and jittery.
I take about 10 medications
a day.
I take the drugs that actually
boost my dopamine level
and make it more potent.
♪
How are you gonna
change gears?
How are you gonna
adjust your life
so that you can get
those things out of it
that you wanted to,
but there's also gonna be
a lot of things
that you can't do?
♪
He still trains.
I mean, he can't walk,
but he can swim.
♪
I love to swim.
And the great thing
about Parkinson's is
that the more you work out
and the more exercise you get,
the slower your disease
progresses.
He started swimming
all the time,
and he could smoke me
in the pool.
His legs don't work.
Like, it's all upper body.
He's
And legs are barel
and you're like, holy shit.
And as I'm hanging out
with him, I'm going
I'm like, that's the story.
It's the story of this guy
is just not gonna give up.
He's not gonna succumb
to this illness.
♪
When I'm paddling
out in the ocean
and I'm by myself,
there's a certain amount
of danger to that.
And you've got to be
a little bit more conservative
in the way
you conduct yourself,
because you're just not
as strong as you would be.
So there's a little bit
of danger involved
being out there by yourself.
But I always paddle
with a buddy if I can.
♪
We would hang out.
And he was so inspiring
to watch.
And I remember one day,
we were
I used to take him,
when he could
when he was
a little more mobile,
I would take him down to
the beach, like, once a week.
And he has trouble getting
from the sand to the water.
But once he's in the water,
it's like smooth sailing.
Getting him from the water
to the sand out to the car
is very difficult,
because he'she's shot.
You gotta pull him out
and go in.
And he was pretty much
just holding onto my back
the whole way up the beach.
And this lady came up to us.
She was a nurse.
And she stopped, she goes,
that was the most inspiring
thing I've ever seen.
♪
And that's when
I knew I had a story.
♪
It just sucks, like
you know, lifelife happens.
♪
I guess the blessing is
his son has come up
through the whole program,
and he's a full-time
lifeguard now.
Big bubble.
Good boy.
And big bubble and big arms.
You gotta swim over there.
Yeah, you gotta swim over.
So we look at
the Newmans' home videos.
Mike's son is
a full-on waterman.
He grew up in a pool.
He grew up doing ocean swims.
He grew up prone paddling.
You know, he grew up
watching his dad
on a TV show about lifeguards.
♪
It's ironic, because
this little bit of sand
has been good to me.
And now it's starting to be
good for my son.
Chris Newman,
who looks just like Mike
it's almost funny when
you see 'em side by side
Chris decided to be
a lifeguard.
And Mike did not tell him,
push him, ask him.
Chris did it on his own.
That's really cool
that Chris is working
in Will Rogers headquarters,
because it's the same place
that we shot the show.
And I'm very proud of him.
♪
Mike is a competitor,
and he's not competing
against other athletes
or other lifeguards anymore.
He's competing
against the illness.
And he will continue
to compete with that
until the day he dies.
♪
Mike has declined
in the four years
that I've known him,
to the point
it's hard to watch sometimes.
♪
But he's nothe's not just
gonna sit in a corner
because it's a degenerative
disease,
and what I can do today,
I'm not gonna be able
to do tomorrow.
What motivates me,
being a Parkinson's patient,
to get out of bed
in the morning is,
there's plenty of stuff
I can go do
and plenty of stuff
to keep me busy.
♪
I'm just gonna go
until the wheels fall off.
♪
♪
It's great
to see all the actors
involved in this documentary.
They each have
their own story,
and Baywatch has been
a big part of their life.
Good morning, angel.
♪
Hello.
Everything is
always happening.
Everything is always
happening.
Changes are always
taking place.
Erika and I were together
when I bought my place here.
I knew this is where
I wanted to be,
or was going to end up
when I was done.
Come on over here.
Hang right there.
I did the right thing,
and I'm a supervisor
at the ski school.
All right.
Hey, move fast!
Go that way.
I did not know that.
It makes sense.
How'd he end up here?
- I think we all
have to reinvent ourselves
from time to time.
When you're an actor
in Hollywood, chasing,
you couldn't relax,
because you were always,
"When's the next gig?
What am I gonna do?
"I gotta stay in shape.
I gotta be in an acting class.
I gotta move over here.
I gotta meet this person."
Blah, blah, blah.
And it's just constant
go, go, go, go, go.
So when we decided to come
here, I found peace.
Sounds familiar.
I work on the mountain.
When I go home now,
my mind's off.
I don't think about work.
I'm good.
♪
Life after Baywatch for
a lot of the actors
is interesting.
Michael Bergin has
had this amazing career,
and doing real estate
instead of, you know, trying
to live up to this Baywatch,
you know, look.
There's just so much more
to people
than what they look like.
It was fun.
I've been off the show
for 25, 30 years,
and it's just like,
people still know my name.
When I tell people
that I was on Baywatch,
they love hearing that.
They get a big kick out of it.
Do I sound like
an old-timer when I say,
they just don't make shows
like they used to?
It's really just
the experience.
And we've watched people
grow up.
We've watched some people
never age, like David.
On your left, David!
On your left!
David Hasselhoff is
still a huge music star
and still touring
around the world.
You know, he's still the guy.
And he's in his 70s.
It's the gift
that keeps on giving.
It's given me
an incredible life.
It's given me fame
worldwide fame.
Everyone is set?
Action!
The show,
it really wasn't good,
but we made it good,
because we had passion.
Oh, come on, Mitch,
you must have known
I've always had
a thing for you.
♪
What kind of thing?
A forbidden fruit
kind of thing.
Pamela Anderson became
an icon,
like so many others before her.
I don't want to think I've
had this really serious career,
but I've made it my own.
So I'm really proud
of what I've been able
to accomplish with being
exactly who I want to be.
And I'm really proud of
everything I've done, almost.
She's a woman
of a certain age,
and she's not ashamed
to show you.
She's brave.
Greg Alan Williams has had
an incredible acting career.
Still working on huge TV shows,
constantly in movies.
It is a joke.
I guess that makes us
He's currently on
Righteous Gemstones,
and he's also very famous
for the movie
Remember the Titans.
You all didn't come out here
to practice,
'cause champions pay the price!
So I wrote this essay
about Baywatch.
One of my daughters is
really dark-skinned.
And one day,
she said to me that
she didn't think
she was pretty.
And I said, "You are too
beautiful to watch the bay.
"You're not
what they're selling.
"You would steal focus
"in that deep, dark,
sun-kissed skin
and those big-ass lips."
You know,
that essay that I wrote
for my daughter was
my way of saying to her,
"You are beautiful."
Embrace the beauty, and
and, you know, it's
it can only be inspiring.
I'm glad that when
I walk into a room now,
it's not just only me.
If Baywatch is rebooted,
it's going to be
a completely different show.
I think you're going
to see people
of all different
ethnic backgrounds.
They would need
girls of all sizes.
They would need, you know,
bigger size models.
They would need bigger butts.
Now looking at it,
you know, we have evolved.
And I think that, you know,
women are taking a stance
and saying, hey, wait a minute,
we're not sex symbols.
We are more than that.
♪
I think that it would be
more about strength and power.
♪
The only way
I think you can do it
is if you did it
like I personally think
it should have been done
to begin with,
which is respect
the job of the lifeguard.
Hello, beachgoers,
this is a safety announcement
from the lifeguards.
It's a real gig, man.
Just keep it real.
Don't make it about
the butt floss and the boobs.
♪
I think you gotta keep
the slow-mo running, though.
I think that's gonna be
a constant.
Baywatch is iconic.
Timeless.
It was magical.
I owe everything
to being on that show
at that time in my life.
It's like hitting a home run
in the World Series.
♪
It's history.
It's history in the making.
Love you, Baywatch!
♪
To this day,
Baywatch is still mentioned.
Baywatch never ends.
It's forever.
♪
♪
Some people stand
in the darkness ♪
Afraid to step
into the light ♪
Some people need ♪
To help somebody ♪
When the edge
of surrender's inside ♪
Don't you worry ♪
It's gonna be all right ♪
♪
'Cause I'm always ready ♪
I won't let you
out of my sight ♪
♪
I'll be ready ♪
Oh, I'll be ready ♪
Never you fear ♪
No, don't you fear ♪
I'll be ready ♪
Oh, I'll be ready ♪
Never you fear ♪
Oh, don't you fear ♪
I'll be ready ♪
Oh, I'll be ready ♪
Never you fear ♪
Oh, don't you fear ♪
I'll be ready ♪
Forever and always,
forever and always ♪
Oh, forever and always ♪
Forever and ever ♪
Forever and always ♪
I'm always here ♪
♪