Pamela Anderson is the moment. With a new Netflix documentary, Pamela, a Love Story, about to drop, along with her memoir Love, Pamela, we’re about to see the former Baywatch star everywhere.
To mark the release of her doc and book, the 55-year-old spoke to Variety about some of the more harrowing moments in her life, including being subject to sexual abuse at a young age, and reportedly being flashed by a leading man when she’s just landed in Hollywood.
The magazine says that in Pamela’s new book, she claims that she was flashed by Tim Allen on her first day on the Home Improvement set in 1991. She also claims she walked in on Jack Nicholson having a threesome at the Playboy Mansion in the ‘90s. Yep, there’s a lot to unpack here.
Twenty-six years after her life was shattered by an unthinkable invasion of privacy, Pamela opens up about it all in Pamela, a love story.
Read on for the most shocking moments from her new interview.
On her first day on the set of Home Improvement in 1991, Pamela Anderson claims that she was flashed by the shows star, Tim Allen. Tim was 39 at the time, while Pamela was 23.
According to Variety, Pamela writes of the incident in her new memoir and says she found Tim “loitering” in the hallway as she approached her dressing room. “He opened his robe and flashed me quickly - completely naked underneath,” she said. “He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked [in Playboy]. Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably.”
Tim has denied these claims, telling the publication: “No, it never happened. I would never do such a thing.”
Shortly after her split from Tommy in 1998, Pamela said she discovered a French teenage girl squatting in an unused part of her Malibu home.
The girl was reportedly holding a letter for Pamela that read: “I’m not a lesbian, but I dream of you”. She then slit her wrists after the police arrived but survived the incident and was deported.
“The police said, ‘Well, you really weren’t in that much danger because she was a girl’,” Pamela told Variety. “I was like, ‘How does that make it less dangerous? Women can still murder people.’”
“I think it’s hard to play somebody when you don’t know the whole picture. I’ve got nothing against Lily James. I think that she’s a beautiful girl and she was just doing the job. But the idea of the whole thing happening was just really crushing for me,” Pamela explained.
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When asked what she thought of the makers of the series, Pamela, who hasn’t watched the Disney+ show, called them “assholes”. “Salt on the wound. … You still owe me a public apology.”
In her new memoir, Pamela details how she was subject to three separate incidences of sexual abuse as a child. She was repeatedly molested by her female babysitter, raped by a 25-year-old man when she was 12, and assaulted by a high school boyfriend and his friends.
“Predators look for somebody to do things to that are so humiliating you’d be embarrassed to tell somebody,” she said. “Those kinds of things really colour the rest of your life. You block things out or you’re gonna deal with it later - and I’m dealing with it now.”
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During a flight to Hawaii, Pamela explained that she was sitting next to a photographer on one of her first modelling jobs.
“He whispered to me that I’d be the only girl, that he chose me … that it would be intimate, no need for hair or makeup people or photography assistants. Just him and me. I was sick to my stomach. I knew it was not good,” she said. Pamela ended up flagging a flight assistant who helped her get on a flight back to Los Angeles alone.
“Mr. Nicholson had two beautiful women with him,” she wrote in her book, of a time she remembers at the Playboy Mansion.
“They were all giggling and kissing up against the wall, sliding all over each other. I walked by to use the mirror, bending over the sink to fix my lip gloss. Trying not to look, but I couldn’t help myself and caught his eye in the reflection. I guess that got him to the finish line, because he made a funny noise, smiled and said, ‘Thanks, dear.’”
GLAMOUR UK has contacted a spokesperson for Jack Nicholson for comment on these claims.
During her first serious relationship, Pamela recalled that she was kicked out of a speeding car by her then-boyfriend.
“He pushed me with his foot so hard, I had no choice but to open the door when the car was moving and rolled straight into a ditch,” she wrote in her memoir, adding that she “landed a perfect gymnast dismount - at high speed”.
She claimed that he also tried to run her over with a car while she was walking along the sidewalk.
