In 1980 while filming Back Roads Tommy Lee said he was tired of wearing tight pants with no pockets, wearing a spoon around his neck, and driving his little black sports car around Los Angeles. He said he wasn't going back to Beverly Hills after falling in love with a girl he found in Texas. This girl Tommy Lee said was the reason, and the woman to keep him in Texas.

He said he had found a beautiful, intelligent, wonderful girl on Back Roads (Kimberlea Cloghley) and he was going to settle down. Kimberlea said she was afraid of him when she first met him on the movie. After their first date of horse back riding on South Padre Island, she went home and cried and cried because she knew she was going to become deeply involved with him. To her she said it was meant to be and set in stone. She said since that day they had not been apart. She was worried he was on the rebound from another recent relationship that had ended for Tommy Lee. This was right before he came to Texas to make Back Roads. Kimberela heard that movie stars assumed that they could have any one they wanted. She waited 4 days before she started liking him. Tommy Lee said that they became "fast friends" quickly after that.

He said he was going to have three sons with this beautiful girl to make his own polo team. He said he was looking to set things right, make the circle unbroken. He said he was going to use his money to buy some real estate, a ranch in Texas, out in the country choked up with mesquite, jackrabbits, the wells down, the fences down, where the man is too old and the kids all gone. He was going to put it back the way it ought to be. He couldn't think of anything else better to do. Except maybe go to Beverly Hills and throw it all up his nose. But that wasn't the way to go.

During Back Roads, he and Kimberlea set up their home on Lake Austin in February 1981 and they were married in may 1981. They bought their ranch in San Saba,a mile from where Tommy Lee was born. They eventually bought a home in San Antonio. Tommy Lee wasn't interested in Houston or Dallas. San Antonio - was where he wanted to be. He said if he were a Jew, San Antonio would be his Tel Aviv. Now that's one city that he could get along in just fine. He loved that old town. He loved everything about it. It's bi-cultural, bi-lingual.

He and Kimberlea, an equestrian and a photo journalist, went on to start their Javelina Film Company and Two J Films. Tommy Lee enjoyed polo. They traveled to New Zealand where he made Nate and Hayes and Kimberlea gave birth to his first born, a son, Austin in 1983. Through the years, they traveled together to polo events, equestrian events, and movie locations. Kimberlea gave birth to their second child a daughter, Victoria, in 1991. When not traveling, they cleared the ranch land of brush to make way for Tommy Lee's polo fields. They raised Brangus cows and brood mares that produced Tommy Lee's polo ponies.

Tommy Lee doesn't hesitate to say what Kimberlea's effect on him was. He said she has "the" stabilizing influence on him. He said she doesn't allow him to dwell on negative aspects in his career and life. He said she is a darkly, very attractive woman, with a sharp sense of humor and a throaty laugh which to him is very sexy. She is the calm counterpoint to his pronounced defenses. They lived in a wonderful home that they refurbished, filled with their joint love of Mexican art and furniture from Texas' past. Even when they have to be miles apart at times, Kimberlea said that they are still in sync. She said that Tommy Lee is a great father and her best friend. Tommy Lee said she doesn't let him think of bad things and that she is as tough as a boot with him. They are very private people and they occasionally have visits at the ranch from the Al Gores, polo players, and Robert Duvall.

At times, the lights of Hollywood do beckon Tommy Lee to leave the bleached range of Texas to star in a new movie. Kimberlea and the children travel with him on location whenever possible. But when that creative actor in his soul takes him to those bright lights, Tommy Lee says in his own words;

"You need to look for some kind of motivation, other than money. There is the most important matter of the heart is to be considered."

DIRECT QUOTES BY TLJ IN FOUR DIFFERENT MAGAZINES

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