Carmen Electra knew her marriage to Dennis Rodman was a mistake as she tied the knot with him when she was in "self-destruction" mode.

Looking back, Carmen acknowledges their romance was doomed to fail because she got married for the wrong reasons.

In an interview on 'Oprah: Where Are They Now?', she said: "I went into self-destruction (when I lost my mother) and I remember meeting Dennis.

"Dennis was the life of the party; he was fun. I started drinking. People couldn't understand why I loved him because he had a reputation for being a bad boy and what I saw at the beginning was, sort of, this gentle giant that was in a lot of pain. In a way, we kind of understood each other. Our relationship was very passionate. When it was good, it was amazing. And when it was bad, it was the worst."

Carmen had a feeling of regret straight after she said "I do" to Dennis at the Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas in November 1998.

The 42-year-old beauty recalled: "It was so fast, it was so spontaneous and I remember right after , I felt like, 'Oh God... what did we just do?' "

Carmen and Dennis eventually divorced in April 1999 and a catalyst for the split was something Oprah Winfrey said during an episode of her talk show.

The 'WERQ' singer - whose second husband was Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro - said: "I remember I was watching Oprah and she said, 'In order to heal, you have to feel.' And that's when it clicked - I was like, 'I'm not feeling I lost my mom, I'm not feeling that because I have just made my life chaos and blocked that out.'

"I took quite a bit of time and I started working on myself, started getting myself together."