Pamela Anderson

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.

Jasmine Sanders looked like the ultimate blonde bombshell as she stepped out at the premiere of Pamela Anderson's new tell-all Netflix documentary.

Daring to bare! Jasmine Sanders put on a busty display on Monday as she channeled Pamela Anderson in a racy PVC corset and leather boots at the star's premiere of her tell-all Netflix documentary in LA Jasmine Sanders puts on a busty display as she channels Pamela Anderson in a racy PVC corset and leather boots at the star's premiere of her tell-all Netflix documentary

Pamela Anderson has opened up about her 1995 sex tape with then-husband Tommy Lee in her brand new Netflix film, Pamela, A Love Story.

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Netflix's latest documentary tells the story of Hollywood icon Pamela Anderson. Pamela, a love story “is Pam like you've never seen before”, according to ...

In the doc she “discusses her lifelong pursuit of love, which led to her highly publicised and often turbulent romances.” The Netflix documentary aims to tell her story from herself, without anyone’s opinion wading in and changing it. Netflix’s latest documentary tells the story of Hollywood icon Pamela Anderson.

The Baywatch legend was clearly feeling nostalgic as she and her sons celebrated the release of the doc on Netflix.

[Pam & Tommy](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../news/pam-and-tommy/) – the miniseries in which [Lily James](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../news/lily-james/) portrayed the Baywatch icon – first aired. [branded the team behind Pam & Tommy “assholes”](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pamela-anderson-slams-pam-tommy-a-holes_uk_63d38cb2e4b04d4d18e53388) for going ahead without her consent, although she made it clear she had [no beef with Lily James](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pamela-anderson-lily-james-pam-and-tommy_uk_63ce5089e4b04d4d18e006c8). [Baywatch](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../news/baywatch/), the TV series that shot her to fame in the 1990s. [Tommy Lee](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../news/tommy-lee/). [Netflix](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../news/netflix/) documentary, [Pamela Anderson](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../news/pamela-anderson/) reflects on her life and career in what she’s said is her attempt to “set the record straight”. [with reports claiming](https://ca.style.yahoo.com/pamela-andersons-sons-grown-taking-230900071.html) it was their idea that she tell her own story in the film.

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.

Released last year, the Hulu series Pam & Tommy follows Anderson's marriage to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, and the infamous sex tape leak. The series ...

“It was painful to be a part of that process with her because she was so traumatised. “It was very painful to watch,” he continued. According to White, Anderson had been unaware that Pam & Tommy was airing until the week it was out.

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 actor and activist has reclaimed her narrative in a revealing Netflix film that shows her at her most vulnerable and honest.

“She really challenges you not to land in those binaries, in the way that now we live in a very binary world where you have to see things one way or the other or you’re wrong,” he said. As a documentary film-maker, “I have to believe staunchly that we should be able to tell stories about real people and real public figures,” said White of the series. White sees Anderson as “another key part of that conversation or a key part to continuing that conversation”, in how she recalls her own treatment in the media, and participation in the bombshell image, with a mix of disappointment and bemusement but rarely bitterness. (She holds nothing against James, she added.) At the time, Anderson said nothing publicly; she refocused unwanted attention to her Broadway debut as Chicago’s Roxie Hart for a winking, [well-reviewed](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/may/09/pamela-anderson-chicago-broadway-roxie-hart) eight-week run (a personal triumph celebrated in the film’s final section). “She wasn’t willing to do things for drama, she wasn’t willing to do things to make a more traditional documentary,” said White. The only topic Anderson seems reluctant to discuss – and the only times during filming, White says, that she would get too nauseated to continue – is the tape: the theft of an intimate video made by Anderson and Lee shortly after their wedding, which was distributed without their consent and became a viral hit on the nascent internet. not a lot of thinking went into anything”), her work as a pin-up and actor proudly. Her molestation by a babysitter as a child and rape by a 24-year-old friend of a friend at age 12, which left her “very, very shy” and ashamed. “She just seemed so different than the public persona,” he said, “that I thought if we could bottle this Zoom conversation up and translate it to documentary format, I think people are going to be really surprised.” There’s a softness to the film that owes something to how Anderson characterizes her own life and career – vulnerable, reflective, a little cheeky, seemingly bemused and baffled by celebrity. I wanted her to be the shepherd through her life story.” [Pamela, a Love Story](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/27/pamela-a-love-story-review-pamela-anderson-looks-back-baywatch-sex-tape), the new Netflix documentary on arguably the most recognizable blonde bombshell of the last 30 years, that Pamela Anderson is a stellar archivist of herself.

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.

"Home Improvement" alum Tim Allen spoke out on Pamela Anderson's claim he flashed her on set.

“But like the rest, it should never have happened,” Anderson said. [Vanity Fair](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/pamela-anderson-tim-allen?utm_campaign=likeshopme&client_service_id=31204&utm_social_type=owned&utm_brand=vf&service_user_id=1.78e+16&utm_content=instagram-bio-link&utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&client_service_name=vanity%20fair&supported_service_name=instagram_publishing) that she has “no ill will toward Tim” after the decades since their alleged encounter. I would never do such a thing.” Allen denied the allegation, Anderson was 23 years old at the time, with Allen then 37. “He opened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath.

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!

Anderson claimed in her memoir "Love, Pamela" that Allen flashed her on her first day on set. Allen told the Daily Mail that she had a "weird memory."

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.

Netflix's Pamela Anderson documentary, Pamela: A Love Story, details the life of the former Playboy model and Baywatch star, touching on her childhood, ...

"I'm attracted to these very hetero, masculine men," she says in the Netflix documentary. The US [National Domestic Violence Hotline](http://www.thehotline.org/) is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), or text LOVEIS to 22522. The 24-hour, freephone [National Domestic Abuse Helpline](https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/) is 0808 2000 247. [The Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9427463/pamela-anderson-hands-crushed-bandaged-adil-rami/). I will leave it to the pros to deal with it now. "If she wanted to hurt me, she chose very well. He is the monster. He used to joke about other players who had girlfriends down the street in apartments close to their wives. We both have our children to try to squeeze into the equation, but he is amazing. [The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/dating/pamela-anderson-break-up-adil-rami-split-cheating-instagram-post-a8973476.html) in June 2019. "We have a very healthy, simple, wonderful life without all the bells and whistles. "I have videos and photos that can disprove what she said.

Pamela Anderson joined Dax Shepard's “Armchair Expert” podcast and said she won't do "crazy s–t" like plastic surgery to look young, since she "can't wait ...

Continued the blond bombshell, “A lot of women that kind of are these classic beauties have a really hard time with aging. I want to let my hair go kind of natural gray, put my little straw hat on, don’t wear makeup. “I never felt like I was any kind of great beauty, ever, no.

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.

In an exclusive excerpt from her memoir 'Love, Pamela,' the icon recalls a screening of 'Borat' that went to hell and led to her split from Kid Rock.

He was sitting next to the magician Criss Angel, and I asked Criss if he could make Tommy disappear. I saw Bob on the red carpet and he looked at me and said, Look what the cat dragged in. He said he was sick of waking up to a picture of me and David LaChapelle every day. Bob saw the whole thing and was fuming from his seat across from us. I didn’t tell Bob I was in the movie, because I wanted to surprise him. I forgot about the part in the film that referenced the “sex tape.” Bob stormed out, calling me a whore and worse. When I walked in, Bob was smashing a photo on the wall. I had rented a small house on Escondido Beach, but it was tiny for the five of us, so Bob found us a more suitable home on Point Dume and bought it. Regis, at the piano, playing and singing “A Song for You” by Donny Hathaway. Bob and I started spending more time in Detroit, his hometown. I’d arrive in New York for work, and there they would both be, sitting in the lobby of the St. Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records and legend, call me on Bob’s behalf and try to convince me to give him another chance.

'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.

Tim Allen responded to claims he flashed Pamela Anderson when she was on the set of "Home Improvement" in 1991. He had complimentary words for the actress, ...

She completed the look with cherry red heels and an up-do. "She was a great coworker, I'll tell you that," Allen said while grabbing coffee. [Baywatch](https://www.foxnews.com/category/entertainment/tv)" in a red body-hugging dress. [Pamela, a love story](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/pamela-anderson-feels-sick-stolen-sex-tape-resurfacing-damsel-distress)." memory, put it that way." [CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER](https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl)

Is it 1995? Pamela Anderson looked like she'd stepped out of her Baywatch heyday as she attended the premiere of her new Netflix documentary.

“We were having a ball. Pam hit the red carpet in a Naeem Khan Beaded Tank Gown ($US5995 or $A9119) reminiscent of the iconic one-piece swimsuit she wore as C.J. [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2023/01/31/pamela-anderson-wears-baywatch-red-dress-to-netflix-doc-premiere/) and was reproduced with permission [new ](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/books/pamela-anderson-recalls-catching-jack-nicholson-in-playboy-party-threesome/news-story/b7c17925923a534ec43589bf2e9c1c73) [Variety](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/books/pamela-anderson-recalls-catching-jack-nicholson-in-playboy-party-threesome/news-story/b7c17925923a534ec43589bf2e9c1c73) [ cover](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/books/pamela-anderson-recalls-catching-jack-nicholson-in-playboy-party-threesome/news-story/b7c17925923a534ec43589bf2e9c1c73). [controversial Hulu show ](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/streaming/pam-tommy-pamela-anderson-and-tommy-lees-sex-tape-gets-the-streaming-treatment/news-story/c79f87a819c11f0fd0656651ec4252e0) [Pam & Tommy](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/streaming/pam-tommy-pamela-anderson-and-tommy-lees-sex-tape-gets-the-streaming-treatment/news-story/c79f87a819c11f0fd0656651ec4252e0), in which [Lily James played Anderson](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/upcoming-movies/lily-james-and-sebastian-stan-transform-into-pamela-anderson-and-tommy-lee-for-hulus-pam-and-tommy/news-story/8df5c9a87e2dcffeabf72e0af70a3f55). [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2023/01/31/pamela-anderson-wears-baywatch-red-dress-to-netflix-doc-premiere/) reports.

The Baywatch actress gets the Framing Britney Spears treatment, and the results are grim.

Horrific snippets of the court transcripts show Gross’ lawyer asking the teenager “You like to be sexy, don’t you?” even claiming in an affidavit that Shields had “sought and acquired the image and persona of a Lolita and a femme fatale … By the end of each documentary, the simple fact of Shields’ and Anderson’s continued existence feels like a miracle. Both women have lived a life in the public eye, dealing with decades of harassment and changing attitudes. Later, when Anderson and Lee decide to sue Penthouse in order to stop the distribution of the sex tape, Anderson, then seven months pregnant with her second child, is forced to endure a humiliating deposition. Naked photos were used in the room as proof that she had no right to privacy, and repeated questions about her sex life implied that Anderson was in some way culpable. There’s one point in Pamela, where Anderson and Lee are enjoying a night out after the birth of their first child, who’s at home with Anderson’s mother. [discovered in the crowd of a Canadian football game](https://slate.com/culture/2022/02/pam-tommy-episode-6-pamela-anderson-jumbotron-playboy.html) in Vancouver in 1989, and was catapulted into the limelight after starring on Playboy magazine’s October cover later that year. Her rebuttal to Cruise (which received wild cheers and applause from the audience at the movie’s Sundance premiere) is the kind of moment Anderson never really gets. But the subject, and content, of the film—a historical drama in which Shields plays a child prostitute and appears nude—sparked a child pornography debate. It isn’t that her roles weren’t questioned at the time, but that she and her mother were made to answer for them, while little was asked of the men who cast and photographed her. And once a woman is labeled as a whore, she’s frequently dehumanized by the men who come to see her as a sex object, and treated with callousness by women, who see her as a traitor to the cause. It’s a documentary subgenre that’s becoming increasingly familiar: a look back on the career of a controversial woman in the spotlight.