Pamela Anderson

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!

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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.

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.

Here are the biggest takeaways from the film. Anderson's difficult upbringing. The Canadian American actress, model and animal rights advocate describes being ...

"This feels like when the tape was stolen," she said. "My life is not a woe-is me story," she said. "Why would I want to go through that again?" The series opened up old wounds, she said, and brought to the surface memories that she had blocked. It's like a prison, I have to break out of it," she wrote to herself. "Nobody really knows what we were going through at that time," she said. "I tried to forget it, but I felt like it was tattooed on my forehead. The two were robbed of their privacy when a sex tape they made was stolen and illegally distributed, becoming the first case of viral content and changing the course of Anderson's career forever. Anderson kept this a secret, in fear of feeling like a burden to her family. I didn't tell her or anyone," she said. "She always told me not to tell my parents. But her parents would eventually reunite — leading the troubled cycle to begin again.

The actress writes that her ex-husband "stormed out" of a screening of the mockumentary and called her a "whore and worse" in her memoir, Love, Pamela.

Releasing both a memoir and a new Netflix documentary Pamela, a Love Story, Pamela Anderson opens up about her relationship with Tommy Lee, enduring abuse ...

"I didn't feel like I had a lot of respect," she says in Pamela, a Love Story. "My life is not a woe-is-me story. "I want to embrace the past, embrace the truth," the mom of two says. No topic was off-limits for the 55-year-old, who reflected on her six marriages—including her infamous relationship with rocker [Tommy Lee](https://www.eonline.com/news/tommy_lee)—and revealed the sexual abuse she endured as a child growing up in Ladysmith, Canada. [Pamela Anderson](https://www.eonline.com/news/pamela_anderson) is ready to share her truth and is doing it on her terms. The Baywatch star's Netflix documentary, [Pamela, a Love Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBJB8r8fVQ), and her memoir, Love, Pamela, were both released on Jan.

Pamela Anderson's kids say her infamous sex tape torpedoed her career and cost her a lot of money in the long run ... which is why they're hating on the ...

Rather than get in the gutter, however, Dylan says his mom tried to protect her kids as much as she could ... [Brandon](https://www.tmz.com/people/brandon-lee/) and Dylan Lee -- the two adult boys Pam shares with [Tommy Lee](https://www.tmz.com/people/tommy-lee/) -- spoke out in her new Netflix show, "Pamela: A Love Story" ... They didn't name names -- Lily James and Sebastian Stan, specifically -- but it's clear they're not fans of the way their show was handled or how it portrayed their parents. Brandon said, "She would've made millions of dollars if she just would have signed a piece of paper. [Pamela Anderson](https://www.tmz.com/people/pamela-anderson/)'s kids say her infamous sex tape torpedoed her career and cost her a lot of money in the long run ... Instead, she sat back with nothing and watched her career fizzle into thin air.

In her new book, Anderson opens a window to a bohemian life with her sons and the impact her eclectic group of friends had on her life - from Vivienne ...

I saw myself in some of them, and I wanted to support them with an open heart, lots of food and love. We took eclectic photos in the trailer park’s laundromat and on the trail to the beach. Kids in the park knew they could come to me with anything. Werner was the one who reminded me to not audition for anyone. I took in a lot of kids over the years, some of whom became like family. By then, Brandon was old enough for me to get him a membership to the Playboy Club in London, so he had somewhere to go if he needed anything. It was the thought that counted to me – I loved being on his radar at all. From Cave of Forgotten Dreams, his documentary on French cave paintings, to Fitzcarraldo, he was fearless, and he had the admiration of our mutual friend Ed Ruscha. We imagined being run off the property, or, best case, being yelled at but being taken in to appreciate the work. Later, we made spaghetti with Queens of the Stone Age, who came by for the shoot and a visit. The boys and I played host to so many eclectic friends and visitors over the years. We became friends just like that, and I went on to appear in multiple fashion campaigns for her and Andreas.

From her often chaotic relationships to her memorable TV performances and animal rights activism, Pamela Anderson is known for many things.

There was just so much character to hold on to — it was really thrilling." I know I have so much to look forward to." "I actually like ageing," she said. "There was a bravery that came from that. I kind of like that I’m not chasing youth," she added. [often chaotic relationships](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/health/a42650808/pamela-anderson-mental-health-suicide-attempt/) to her memorable TV performances and animal rights activism, [Pamela Anderson](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a39010512/pam-and-tommy-what-is-pamela-anderson-doing-now/) is known for many things.