Pamela Anderson didn’t really appreciate her sex tape affair with ex-husband Tommy Lee resurfacing.
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Lily James portrayed the Baywatch Baywatch star in the 2022 miniseries Pam & Tommy, which chronicled her marriage to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and the unauthorized release of their sex tape amid the 90s. A project carried out without the approval of Pamela Anderson.
On Tuesday, Netflix released the first trailer for Pamela, A Love Story, a documentary about her life in which she took part. Pamela Anderson has opened up about her feelings about the show.
“I blocked, in my mind, this stolen video of my life in order to survive. Now that everything is coming back, it makes me sick”, can we hear him say on archive images. “I want to take control of the narrative for the first time.”
In a voiceover, Pamela Anderson says she ‘didn’t feel like she was getting much respect’ as comedian Ruby Wax asks her if she wants to be ‘a serious actress’ during a sequence on set Baywatch in Malibu.
“I’m a serious actress,” replied Pamela Anderson, who was wearing her iconic red swimsuit, as Ruby Wax laughed.
“I had to make a career out of the pieces that were left. But I’m not the damsel in distress. I put myself in crazy situations and I survived them”, continues Pamela Anderson in the narration. “I don’t care what people think because it’s the only choice I had. If I cared what people think, I wouldn’t be here.”
“Some might think ‘Oh it’s a Playboy thing’ or that sex object, and they hate you because you’re something else. You have to be brave and use what you have. Why can’t we be the heroes of our own lives?” she asks.
In a confessional at the end of the trailer, Pamela Anderson jokes, “Maybe I should do all the interviews naked, there’s no mystery here.”
Pamela, A Love Story will be streaming on Netflix from January 31st.