Kid Rock has explained why he was involved in a punch up with Tommy Lee at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this week.
The incident resulted in Kid Rock being cited by Las Vegas police.
Rock told a Los Angeles radio station that it has been "going on for five years."
"I did what any man would do, any man across the country, across the world would do. It kills me just to be associated with, to have my name in a sentence with him, it honestly destroys me," he said.
Speaking about his relationship with Lee, he said: "Last contact I had with him was when me and Pam were going through our divorce. He picked up her Blackberry and started e-mailing me a lot of horrendous things. It was extremely disrespectful."
"This was unavoidable. I had to do what I had to do because this was a long time coming. You know, I came back from the bathroom and he was sitting right there. It was even more disrespectful after everything he's said, I was like that's enough, that's it."
Rock denied that the row had anything to do with Pamela Anderson, who had relationships with both of the men in the past, saying: "It had absolutely zero to do with her."
