Pamela Anderson

The '90s icon, who is releasing a memoir and a documentary tomorrow, reflects on her wild life, roller-coaster romances, and public scandals.

Everyone was looking good—all the contractors that were here.” She married one in December 2020, and around the time the marriage ended, about a year later—“It ended up being a disaster”—she was ready for some serious introspection. On top of the upright piano behind her is one of the first paintings she purchased—a stormy landscape in a gilded frame—plus a framed snapshot of her and her golden retriever Zeus in front of the Louvre. She started renovating a house and felt fulfilled in making it “my art project”—designing and decorating her new life. (Anderson says she did not make a cent from the tape, whose release earned the distributors $77 million in less than 12 months and deeply traumatized Anderson.) Yet, just ahead of “I don’t know how they will be received,” she says. (This morning, between an NPR interview and journaling a few pages of her stream of consciousness thoughts, she raked leaves.)

Ryan White spoke to Newsweek about making Netflix documentary "Pamela, a Love Story" with Pamela Anderson and the "re-trauma" she experienced with "Pam ...

"She's been the embodiment of sexuality for so long, since she became famous in Playboy, and so the story of Pamela's sexuality, her individual sexuality, is such a theme throughout the film because so much of that was robbed from her when she was young. I said, 'I'm not the right filmmaker if you guys want to make a film that's a look back at your life, that's sort of a biography. "I've never been in touch with Tommy, I feel like I know Tommy because I've seen so much footage of him, but we never entertained making a talking head film. He was very supportive of Pamela making this documentary, but he is an ex-husband. Like how truly open could she be to all of that?" "You know, these days we see sex tapes all the time, especially with celebrities, often they are career makers, [but] it was very important to not only inform people but remind people that this was another sexual trauma done to Pamela, this was something stolen from her again. "I think Pamela challenges a lot of our preconceived notions about sexuality and femininity, and pornography, and all of these things. "I think Pamela to a lot of people, to culture, to pop culture, is sex, right?" I hope it's very humanizing for people about Pamela." "But, in a lot of ways, I think that's how she charts her life, she doesn't think in years, she doesn't think chronologically, but she can always say when you're asking her a question like 'oh, I was with Rick [Salomon] at the time, or I was with Bob,' who is Kid Rock, so she almost uses husbands and boyfriends as a way to chart her life. "I think in a lot of ways Pamela charts her life by her partner at the time, because she's always been a serial monogamist, she's almost always been in a relationship in her adulthood up until now, up until the divorce she goes through in the middle of my film, and for the past year she has been single," White said of her honesty. The theft of the tape saw Anderson become the butt of the joke and at the time, it brought back feelings of helplessness and shame that the model had experienced when she was a victim of sexual abuse when she was young, she said in the film.

If you think of Pamela Anderson as just another hapless, blonde ex-bombshell – Playboy centerfold, Baywatch superstar, victim of a stolen “sex tape” that ...

“Violence begets violence.” It’s a lesson she never forgot during her own marriages. Many of the international broadcasters would buy only the episodes I appeared in, so there were ‘Pamela clauses’ in the international deals. Anderson is assured of renown thanks to Baywatch, in which she played lifeguard C.J. Thanks to her gymnastics training, she landed a perfect dismount and rolled into a ditch. And when her adored son Brandon turned 18 and was living and working in London, she arranged to get him a membership to the local Playboy Club so he’d have somewhere to go if he needed anything. She tried in vain to rescue her mother, who declined to be saved. I felt I did everything to try to get them to love me, by being accommodating, generous, or by just being the comedian — laughter always being an easy way for me to cut the tension.” She thanks him at the end of the book for being “the catalyst of everything good in my life.” “Soon after, [the babysitter] died in a car accident,” Anderson writes. Hefner was impressed she knew who the Spanish artist was. She loves poetry (Pablo Neruda is her favorite; she likes to read him aloud even though she doesn’t speak Spanish). The number of books she’s read and cites in her memoir is impressive.

Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game ...

["Blackport,"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LJBm1_gGEiQ) is based on a true story and follows a couple who take advantage of that quota in the 1980s to control a large part of the market. [Season: A Letter to the Future.](https://www.scavengers.ca/games/season) The protagonist, Estelle, knows a cataclysm is coming, so she sets out on her bicycle to record the wonders and unravel the mysteries of her strange world before all heck breaks loose. All six of Ireland's hopefuls will compete on Ireland's "The Late Late Show" on Friday, [streaming worldwide.](https://www.rte.ie/player/) ["Hawaii"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURFlF8CyV8) from Public Image Ltd. ["Putin and the Presidents,"](https://www.pbs.org/video/putin-and-presidents-preview/) delves into Putin's interaction with the last five U.S. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BGu-GyKWQ) "I want people to feel good when they hear the new album. — Take a trip back in time to 2012 for a front-row seat to what The Rolling Stones call "one of the most memorable shows in the band's history." ["Pamela, A Love Story,"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBJB8r8fVQ) coming to Netflix on Tuesday. ["Lyle, Lyle Crocodile"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0W6O7mSlaU) also comes to Netflix on Saturday. ["Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z3QKkl1WyM) yet, the Marvel sequel arrives on Disney+ on Wednesday with a [batch of five Oscar nominations](https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards) to its name, including best supporting actress for Angela Bassett and original song ("Lift Me Up," music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson; lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler). The story focuses on a family who has recently relocated to New York City and their son (Winslow Fegley) is struggling to adapt until the caviar-loving crocodile enters his life. [In his review, AP Film Writer Jake Coyle wrote](https://apnews.com/article/black-panther-wakanda-forever-film-reviews-entertainment-ryan-coogler-chadwick-boseman-424bcbf6ee3c730e80e25d153328eb8e) that, "'Wakanda Forever' is overlong, a little unwieldy and somewhat mystifyingly steers toward a climax on a barge in the middle of the Atlantic.

Brandon Thomas Lee, 26, said he wishes his mom Pamela Anderson would have made money off of her and Tommy Lee's sex tape.

Anderson claimed that she wanted to tell Brandon and their other son Dylan, 25, about the tape when they were “age-appropriate,” but Brandon beat her to it when he came home from school and questioned why she made the tape. She would have made millions of dollars if she had just signed the paper,” he said. “I wish she would have made the money.

Pamela Anderson's son with ex-husband Tommy Lee, Brandon Thomas Lee, said that he wishes his mom profited off his parents' famously leaked sex tape.

“Things would have been different if she had made money on that tape,” Dylan, 25, reportedly says. The Playboy model and Lee filmed their sex tape shortly after getting married in 1995. I was very quick to flush with anger.” Anderson, now 55, allegedly explains in the doc that she would have never “monetized” the stolen tape, not even for a billion dollars. “She would have made millions of dollars if she had just signed the paper.” “I wish she would have made the money,” Brandon Thomas Lee reportedly says in Anderson’s upcoming Netflix documentary “Pamela: A Love Story” (

Pamela Anderson hasn't bothered to watch “Pam & Tommy,” the Hulu series which recounts one of the most infamous chapters of her life: The theft and spread ...

She compared the images to a “Halloween costume.” But the idea of the whole thing happening was just really crushing for me," she said. I think that she’s a beautiful girl and she was just doing the job. The show’s creator, Robert Siegel, and [star James said they reached out to Anderson](https://ew.com/tv/pam-and-tommy-lily-james-reached-out-to-pamela-anderson/) without receiving a response. Now, she's saying the creators “owe (her) a public apology." Still, the former “Baywatch” star said the miniseries, which received widespread acclaim and garnered 10 Emmy award nominations, has affected her emotionally.

Pamela, a Love Story,” a new documentary from filmmaker Ryan White gives Pamela Anderson the chance to tell her story.

That a series would attempt to make entertainment out of it just reopened old wounds and traumas. She is a hopeful romantic who is hard not to root for. She learned early to leave her body and make her own little world, she says, and she knew from a young age that she had to get off of that island. Ironic that it was her body that would be her ticket out, ultimately. “ Pamela, a Love Story,” a new documentary from filmmaker Ryan White, gives Anderson the chance to tell her story her own way, from her earliest days to her Playboy debut, her “Baywatch” fame, her many marriages and up through her recent run on Boardway. No one ever told her not to be, or that because she talked about some things that she didn’t have to talk about everything.

The 55-year-old Baywatch star is releasing both a memoir and Netflix documentary this week.

"Putin was only in the room once, but he heard of everything. The relationship was platonic, she said. She has said that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was the only person who treated her with total respect. In one, Anderson says she was molested by a female baby-sitter between the ages of six and 10. LaBatt took notice - quickly tapping Anderson to become a spokesperson, plastering her face on posters and in commercials. Lee later served six months behind bars for kicking Anderson as she held their seven-week-old son, Dylan - violence that pushed her to file for divorce. "I want to take control of the narrative for the first time." "I didn't tell anybody," she writes. "My parents thought she was generous and kind, when really, it was just a way to get them off the scent," she writes. "I just blocked it out." "I blocked that stolen tape out of my life to survive. But these idyllic scenes are cut with the loud and sometimes violent conflict between her young parents.

Pamela Anderson was always a bit of an open book in interviews. No one ever told her not to be, or that because she talked about some things that she didn't ...

But I’m glad that this era of the biographical documentary is going strong, allowing for people like Anderson to correct the record themselves. You can just ask her how she felt about it then, how she feels about it now: She’ll tell you. That a series would attempt to make entertainment out of it just reopened old wounds and traumas. She is a hopeful romantic who is hard not to root for. She learned early to leave her body and make her own little world, she says, and she knew from a young age that she had to get off of that island. Ironic that it was her body that would be her ticket out, ultimately. There is a breeziness to Anderson, who, despite everything, does not think of herself as a victim. No one ever told her not to be, or that because she talked about some things that she didn’t have to talk about everything. [Pamela, a Love Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBJB8r8fVQ&utm_source=st.%20albert%20gazette&utm_campaign=st.%20albert%20gazette%3A%20outbound&utm_medium=referral),” a new documentary from filmmaker Ryan White, gives Anderson the chance to tell her story her own way, from her earliest days to her Playboy debut, her “Baywatch” fame, her many marriages and up through her recent run on Boardway. She had a female babysitter who molested her for years. She even sat through a roast under the condition that a sizable donation be made to the organization. By the time private home videos showing her and husband Tommy Lee having sex were stolen, reproduced and distributed for sale globally, no one seemed all that horrified on her behalf.

Pamela Anderson was always a bit of an open book in interviews. No one ever told her not to be, or that because she talked about some things that she.

That a series would attempt to make entertainment out of it just reopened old wounds and traumas. She is a hopeful romantic who is hard not to root for. She learned early to leave her body and make her own little world, she says, and she knew from a young age that she had to get off of that island. Ironic that it was her body that would be her ticket out, ultimately. No one ever told her not to be, or that because she talked about some things that she didn’t have to talk about everything. [Pamela, a Love Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBJB8r8fVQ),” a new documentary from filmmaker Ryan White, gives Anderson the chance to tell her story her own way, from her earliest days to her Playboy debut, her “Baywatch” fame, her many marriages and up through her recent run on Boardway.

Anderson's memoir “Love, Pamela” is full of dark details about her teenage abuse and her violent marriage, but she makes plenty of room for her love for ...

“I even found a dog to walk while I was there,” she recalls, “a beautiful red Irish setter named Dash that I’d pick up each day on the walk to the park, to his busy parents’ delight.” The lawyers went so far as to suggest that Anderson “probably liked the attention” of having the sex tape leak. Anderson recounts that night in her memoir, but the biggest reveal is that she blames his use of steroids for his actions that night. “He tried again to reach me after the shoot, but I was too shy to call him back,” she writes. Lee and Anderson attempted to block the company that had distributed their sex tape, and the company’s lawyers forced the couple to interview separately. In her “most embarrassing moment,” Anderson made a “squeal” on the phone call with Kennedy as they chatted about the shoot. There’s a fascinating obsession with animals in her stories and poetry, leading up to the disclosure that as recently as last year she took a job as a dog walker. Anderson jokes that her “breasts had a career of their own” and she “was just tagging along,” but there’s a darker side to this. “Playboy was an honor / And a privilege, / I never thought of it as immoral or salacious / but the unforeseen downside / was that it / may have set me up. Anderson admitted to feeling a sense of “shyness” at her first Playboy shoot, which led to some struggles on set. wanted Anderson to pose for the first cover of George magazine, but it didn’t work out. Instead, Anderson champions Hefner and her ties to the group, which discredits the many women who have spoken out against Playboy in a book that aims to empower women.

Pamela Anderson is ready to tell the world her story in her own words. Almost one year after the controversial Hulu series Pam & Tommy, starring Lily James ...

Anderson married her bodyguard Dan Hayhurst in a Christmas Eve ceremony in 2021. [InStyle](https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/tbt-pamela-anderson-kid-rock-relationship), Anderson and Kid Rock met during a tribute to Aretha Franklin on VH1 Divas Live in 2001. Supposedly, Anderson’s cameo in the movie [Borat](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/05/30/borat-ended-pamela-anderson-kid-rocks-marriage-baron-cohen-says/1292576001/) was part of why the couple is no longer together. Part of the reason she wanted to do the Netflix doc was to set the story straight on her terms. Anderson has done her best to move on from her painful past with Lee. Anderson became incredibly famous after her starring role in the television series Baywatch and her career as a glamour model in publications like Playboy. The Baywatch star later filed for annulment, citing fraud as the reason. Lee is now married to actress Brittany Furlan. They married on February 19, 1995, after only knowing each other for a few days, and then divorced in 1998. Almost one year after the controversial Hulu series Pam & Tommy, starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan, was released into the world, Anderson is poised to reclaim her narrative with a new documentary film called No, Anderson is not married to anyone right now. If she is dating anyone in 2023, she’s keeping it private.

Forget everything you think you know about Baywatch star Pamela Anderson – as her new Netflix documentary reveals, there is so much more to the former ...

(In a recent chat with [Variety](https://variety.com/2023/tv/features/pamela-anderson-interview-abuse-boyfriends-pam-and-tommy-backlash-1235501556/), Peters confirmed that although he gave Pamela clothes, jewellery and cars during this period, their relationship was platonic). [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/pamela-anderson-marries-movie-mogul-jon-peters-secret-ceremony-1271622/) the day after their wedding was announced. "She has yet to shine in a real way. [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/movie-mogul-jon-peters-once-tried-talk-pamela-anderson-doing-playboy-1045440/) in 2017, Peters talked about the first time he met Pamela. She makes me wild – in a good way. So that's for her, whether she needs it or not." His relationship with Pamela didn't last long, possibly due to the age difference, but the pair remained friends in the years before their surprise wedding. I'm just saying it for the first time with you. And she doesn't even know that. She inspires me. On January 20, 2020, Pamela surprised everyone when she announced that she had married Hollywood producer Jon Peters. [Pamela: A Love Story](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a42328753/pamela-anderson-netflix-documentary-wont-watch/) is Canadian-born Pamela Denise Anderson's chance to tell her own story (she has also written a memoir, Love, Pamela, to coincide with the Netflix documentary), as she reads from her own diaries about her eventful life, beginning with her traumatic childhood (she was raped and sexually abused at a young age, and grew up in a household with an explosively-tempered father) and how she was discovered at a football game and head-hunted by Playboy.

The dress in question is by designer Naeem Khan, it features a scoop neckline and beaded detail. On the catwalk, it was shown with matching beaded gloves, but ...

Pamela, A Love Story marks the first time Anderson has had a chance to, in her own words, open up about her life and career. Not a victim, but a survivor. The dress in question is by designer Naeem Khan, it features a scoop neckline and beaded detail.

"Baywatch" star and Playboy Playmate Pamela Anderson talks about the highs of her romance with Tommy Lee and low points like their infamous sex tape.

Throughout everything, Anderson has been realistic about her celebrity and clear about the difference between her image and herself. But the heart of the documentary is her passionate marriage to rocker Tommy Lee, a founding member of metal band Motley Crue. So is hearing her vivid recollection of Sylvester Stallone offering her a condo and a Porsche if she would be his “No. (The baby, BTW, was at home with her mother.) And it’s painful to hear Anderson explain how the tape essentially took away her privacy and put her reputation on trial. Last year, she had to face a revival of old gossip when Hulu premiered a limited series about the sex tape scandal, “Pam & Tommy,” starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan. Shy and ashamed of her body as a young adult, she says she overcame those negative feelings after a stint as a Labatt’s “beer girl” led to an invitation to pose nude for Playboy. After hearing a comment like that, you could forgive Anderson if she gave up entirely on men and marriage. Anderson and Lee’s marriage collapsed after a domestic violence incident that resulted in him serving six months in prison and her filing for divorce. 1 girl,” a proposition that prompted her to ask whether there was a No. That in itself is a fairly remarkable accomplishment for someone who has endured being at the epicenter of an internationally notorious sex tape scandal. At 55, Anderson has returned to her tiny Canadian hometown for a quieter life, but she is far from forgotten. It was directed by Ryan White, who also helmed “Good Night Oppy,” the acclaimed 2022 film about a Mars Exploration Rover.

We are now at least a half-decade into the era of revisiting popular '90s and 2000s narratives around famous women and reevaluating their conclusions.

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Ryan White, the director of "Pamela, A Love Story,” says he believes Pamela Anderson's claims about Tim Allen and Sylvester Stallone.

“I had a TV show on Sci-Fi called ‘The Anti-Gravity Room,’ and she agreed to go on the show to promote [her 1996 movie] ‘Barb Wire,’” Braun recalls. He first met Anderson when he was a young executive at Fremantle and worked on “Baywatch.” He remembers her generous spirit, even when there was zero upside for her. So everything’s very nuanced with the way she looks at things, and I think it makes her that much more believable.” Similarly, Stallone has denied an even milder claim from Anderson that appears in the documentary in which she says the “Rocky” star “offered me a condo and a Porsche to be his ‘No. In the memoir, which hits shelves Tuesday, she says that Allen flashed her on the set of “Home Improvement” in 1991. White asked to read the memoir, which was still in manuscript form. “They’re just moments that she tells you about as she’s rattling off a story.” [a cover story with Variety](https://variety.com/2023/tv/features/pamela-anderson-interview-abuse-boyfriends-pam-and-tommy-backlash-1235501556/), Anderson expanded on the encounter by saying: “Tim is a comedian, it’s his job to cross the line. Brandon told White that Anderson had moved back to the tiny town on Vancouver Island called Ladysmith, where she was born and raised. And I’m not I’m trying not to do that as much anymore.’” I laughed uncomfortably.” (Allen told Variety in a statement, “No, it never happened. “Of course, I totally believe Pamela because I think she’s always honest in everything — about her own shortcomings, but also about other people’s,” White tells Variety in response to Allen and Stallone’s denials.

Yep, that's right. Pamela Anderson is from Vancouver, Canada—not Venice Beach, California. If this shocks you (it certainly surprised me), you're in for a ...

I think the most glaring example of this is the fact that she—the most glaring sex symbol of our generation—considers the sex tape leak to be the most traumatizing experience of her life. But what I love about her is she's not willing to let that numb her in a way where she's resentful. She sees it as a beautiful romance, and she sees Tommy as the love of her life. But during the making of the film, I would think in my head, Oh my gosh, why is Pamela trusting me to drive every single one of her diaries from her entire life in a cargo van back from Vancouver Island to Los Angeles—and have them in my office where I can read every thought from her entire life? The morning of a shoot, I'd throw out an idea to her and she would say, "But isn't that kind of dumb? And I would always say to her, “Pamela, this is the anti-celebrity documentary." It was just a very personal conversation where she was asking me questions about my life and I was asking her questions. I was blown away by her storytelling right away—and her wit and wisdom, the way she saw the world. She was the symbol of American sexuality, so I just assumed she was a California gal, but it wasn't true. Of course, we delved into heavy things, but she and I had a blast together. I would say her sons convinced her that she should make a documentary. But I wouldn't say that Pamela wanted to make a documentary.

'Pamela, a Love Story' director Ryan White won the trust of his subject, then had to watch her relive a painful era: 'It was pretty excruciating.'

We had a conversation from the beginning that there was going to be no lighting in the film. She said it was very difficult to watch but that she was really proud of it, and she was proud of her vulnerability. I’m like, “Pamela, you should be the star of Netflix romantic comedies — imagine the viewership!” But Pamela is going to follow her heart on all of her decisions for the rest of her life. Part of that getting blown up was, I think, the fact that she had me there once a month, stirring up all these emotions in her either through our conversations or having all the diaries around and tapes that she might pop in the VCR. During that first Zoom, I thought, “What a perfect little narrative arc, this island girl who got swept up in this crazy Cinderella rock ’n’ roll story and returned to her island to live out the rest of her life and is married to a local and taking care of her parents. So the fact that we were making this film and we were excavating her memory, and these photos, diaries, videos, stirred something up in her where she concluded, “What am I doing? She watches a few of them in our film, and it was so emotional and triggering that she never wanted to do it again. I thought she was never going to watch it, or maybe she would watch in 10 years. That was a rule of thumb in the edit room. Even if she was too nauseated and said, “I just have to go to my bedroom for the rest of the day,” she was back the next day. It was key that Brandon, her son, was one of our producers, because she felt a safety in [handing over] the archives. “What I hope the documentary does is make Pamela very human and strips her of that caricature.”

Nearly one year after "Pam & Tommy," Hulu's limited series about Pamela Anderson's stolen sex tape, the “Baywatch” star is revealing her side of the story ...

But posing for the magazine was “empowering,” Anderson writes. “I started to feel nauseous, faint, I had to stop,” Anderson writes. “I’ve made my choices in my life," she said. “It hurt me a lot, keeping this secret.” “I was in shock,” she writes in her memoir, “falling apart, molecules, dust, liquid . “I tried to kill her,” says Anderson. I think that was the deterioration of kind of whatever image I had.” “We were both devastated, but I had to protect my babies.” “I ran to the bathroom and got sick. Anderson recalls being “completely humiliated” in a room adorned with her nude pictures, where she was questioned about her sex life. I couldn’t take it anymore, and I didn’t know what to do. “It was a survival mechanism, and now that it’s all coming up again, I feel sick.

The word “Intimate” is frequently used when describing celebrity documentaries, but it certainly applies to “Pamela, a love story,” which at one point shows ...

The indignities of that “blond bombshell” status are nicely documented here. (There’s no mention of “Home Improvement,” or Anderson’s Anderson’s account actually does little to detract from that Emmy-nominated production, which was quite sympathetic in portraying the hurt she felt and the way the media treated her. The result is a humanizing look at a woman often reduced to cartoon caricature, while occasionally feeling too conspicuously like a licensed product. [“Ask Dr. The word “Intimate” is frequently used when describing celebrity documentaries, but it certainly applies to “Pamela, a love story,” which at one point shows Pamela Anderson lounging in the bathtub as portions of her diaries are read as voiceover.

The blonde bombshell got her start as a Playboy Playmate and Baywatch Babe in Hollywood—earning a lot of attention due to her curvaceous figure. Whatever you ...

[Pamela Anderson was famously married](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/pamela-anderson-through-the-years/) to Mötley Crüe drummer [Tommy Lee](https://parade.com/tag/tommy-lee/) in the mid-90s. [estimated budget](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/?ref_=nm_knf_c_1) of $9 million and Anderson was a major TV actress looking for her first big movie project at the time. [has a reported net worth](https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/pamela-anderson-net-worth/) of $20 million in 2023. In fact, [she has spoken out against](https://www.indiewire.com/2023/01/pamela-anderson-calls-pam-and-tommy-team-assholes-say-they-owe-apology-1234804006/) the project, saying it brought up trauma she had endured and that the people involved owe her an apology. Meanwhile, her ex-husband, Tommy Lee, [has a reported net worth](https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/tommy-lee-net-worth/) of $70 million. Pamela Anderson is keeping herself busy: Her new memoir Love, Pamela and her Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story each dropped on Jan. [October](https://parade.com/living/october-holidays-observances/) 1989 issue. In 1992, she landed the part that would make her a star: C.J. She moved to Los Angeles to further her career and was then chosen as Playboy’s Playmate of the Month for their [February](https://parade.com/living/february-holidays-observances) 1990 issue, in which she also appears as the centerfold. Whatever you may think of her, there’s no denying she has made her mark in [pop culture](https://parade.com/1037122/alexandra-hurtado/pop-culture-trivia/) history. [Pamela Anderson](https://parade.com/tag/pamela-anderson)’s net worth can be attributed to, well, some of her biggest attributes. As a result, she was brought onto the field later on during the game and the crowd blew up again.

Tim Allen has addressed Pamela Anderson for a second time since she accused him of flashing her on the set of Home Improvement in 1991.

I walked by to use the mirror, bending over the sink to fix my lip gloss.” “Tim is a comedian, it’s his job to cross the line. “They were all giggling and kissing up against the wall, sliding all over each other. “She was a great co-worker, I'll tell you that. “He opened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath.” ‘Now we’re even,’” she recalled him saying.

Tim Allen says "all of us at Disney/ABC" are "disappointed" in Pamela Anderson's memory of a flashing incident on set of Home Improvement.

But it seems unlikely that Allen is authorized to speak on behalf of “all of us at Disney/ABC” just because he’s the star of Anderson, who appeared in the first two seasons of the ABC sitcom in the ’90s, alleged in her new memoir Love, Pamela that [Allen flashed her](https://www.avclub.com/tim-allen-denies-flashing-pamela-anderson-1850019003) on set on her first day of filming for the show. But like the rest, it should never have happened.” [Pamela Anderson](https://www.avclub.com/pamela-anderson-paramount-baywatch-movie-1850036249) and Tim Allen regarding an incident on the set of [Home Improvement](http://avclub.com/tv/reviews/home-improvement-1991) has reached the… The clip undermines his claim and gives credence to Anderson’s. All of us at Disney/ABC, really.” He added: “She’s a good girl.” Gross!

Pamela Anderson discusses Tommy Lee, Rick Salomon, and Kid Rock marriages in her new memoir 'Love, Pamela'. She talks allegedly getting flashed by Tim Allen ...

“She said she’d spoken to Julian about me, and she knew I deserved a lot more respect than people gave me, especially in the media,” Anderson writes. She used a commercial shoot in Australia as an excuse to visit Assange’s home country and lobby with members of Parliament on his behalf. “A few months later, my assistant found what he thought was a crack pipe in the Christmas tree,” she writes. She thought that it would help me become a stronger and more serious activist, because my intelligence was being overshadowed.” Though Anderson took her notes under “serious consideration,” she doesn’t think being a bombshell and an intellectual are mutually exclusive. Rick insists to this day that my assistant planted the pipe in the tree to break us up.” They annulled the marriage after the incident. The late Westwood, her husband Andreas Kronthaler, and Teller watched Obama’s inauguration from a blow-up mattress in 2009. She met her ex-husband at a charity concert she attended with partner in crime and photographer David LaChapelle. But luckily, I couldn’t stand the taste of hard alcohol and the nausea forced me out of the tub. When Mario Van Peebles found out she was living there, he convinced her to leave the arrangement and that it could become dangerous. I was fine the way I was.” Trying not to look, but I couldn’t help myself and caught his eye in the reflection. Combining prose and free-verse poetry to weave a chronological tale that begins at birth and arrives at the present, Anderson offers 250 dizzying pages of straightforward recollections.

Variety has reached out to Kid Rock's representative for comment. In “Borat,” Sacha Baron Cohen's eponymous reporter travels from his home in Kazakhstan to ...

The memoir’s release coincides with the streaming debut of Anderson’s Netflix documentary, “Pamela, a Love Story.” And I’m not I’m trying not to do that as much anymore.’” During his travels, Borat comes across a “Baywatch” booklet and becomes obsessed with Pamela Anderson. “I forgot about the part in the film that referenced the ‘sex tape.’ Bob stormed out, calling me a whore and worse. He was embarrassed, and his reaction was not thought through.” Anderson brought Rock (real name Robert James Ritchie, so Anderson refers to him as Bob in her memoir) to the “Borat” premiere without telling him she factored into the plot.

'Pamela, a love story' digs into Pamela Anderson's extensive personal archive to tell a different kind of story.

“From the beginning, both Pamela and I have said that this has nothing to do with taking the narrative back from that show—she never liked that type of messaging,” White says. For Anderson, who has not seen the series and has no plan to, the goal behind making the documentary was not to correct the narrative, but to tell her story authentically. Upon being given access to the archive, White flew up to Ladysmith, where he filmed Anderson diving back into the old journals and tapes for the first time in years and later, in some of the sweetest moments of the film, reviewing home videos with her sons on a VCR and monitor that White got from a local pawn shop. When White began doing the research for the film back in Los Angeles after the first trip to Ladysmith, he tasked Lee with carrying the first shipment of tapes back to L.A. “I think through the years after going through so much, she’s clung to a lot of her personal treasures and guarded them over the years,” he says. “She does not want to step on the artist’s toes ever because she knows what that feels like. [kept a journal](https://time.com/5947472/collective-documentary/), writing about everything from her career goals to her romantic relationships and family life; in one particularly bittersweet scene in the documentary, she writes a letter to her then-one-year-old son Dylan, following the incarceration of her then-estranged husband Tommy Lee. The extensive materials become the thruline of the film, showing the growth and evolution of Anderson throughout the years, from her childhood to present day. “She’s very collaborative from an emotional level and an artistic level, but when it came to the filmmaking and editing conversation, she was very detached from the process, which appealed to me as a storyteller,” White said. In addition to her journals are an archive of VHS tapes that document everything from home life with her sons and their childhood birthday parties to vacations with ex-husband Tommy Lee. Anderson’s life appears to reach its apex once she falls in love with, marries, and starts a family with musician Tommy Lee, but that image is shattered once a stolen intimate home video of the couple becomes the Internet’s first viral moment. [turbulent childhood](https://time.com/104478/pamela-anderson-says-she-was-raped-as-a-child/), during which she suffered multiple abuses, to her discovery at a Canadian football game, to the dizzyingly meteoric fame that came after she became a Playboy model and television star via [Baywatch ](https://time.com/4793889/baywatch-movie-review/)in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Pamela Anderson's new Netflix documentary is part '90s nostalgia romp, part emotional meditation.

And as the documentary moves from the buildup of her career to its plateauing, it loses some of its bite. [Billie Eilish](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/alessadominguez/billie-eilish-documentary-review-apple-plus) — Anderson didn’t have social media during the peak of her fame. She shares fun details about their courtship, like the fact that Lee flirted with her by leaving voicemails about his “large bologna” and how they put ecstasy into their champagne the weekend of their shotgun wedding in Mexico. In an archival clip from a news conference, Anderson talks about how “celebrities have rights too,” but now she admits her career never quite recovered. Anderson’s celebrity fell apart, she says, after videos containing personal footage — including of her and Tommy Lee having sex — were stolen from her home, to be packaged and sold as a nonconsensual “sex tape” to the public. For example, we see endless footage of late-night comics asking Anderson about her body and relationships — or, as she puts it, “boobs and boyfriends.” “They start grabbing you by the hair, and throwing you into walls and stripping your clothes off,” she says. “From the first snap of the picture, I felt like I was throwing myself off a bridge,” she recalls. The show made her a worldwide star; in old footage of the cast doing global promotion for frenzied fans, we’re reminded what a monocultural hit used to mean. The end result is a revealing and sometimes surprisingly sad portrait, even if, predictably, it fails to sit with the contradictions of her persona. Rather than a meticulous catalog of her career or cultural appeal, Pamela is mostly interested in Anderson’s thoughts and feelings. [already knows the outlines of Anderson’s trajectory](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alessadominguez/pamela-anderson-broadway-chicago-pamcore): Playboy icon, global Baywatch pinup, tabloid and celebrity gossip piñata, animal rights activist.