However, she declined to read anything from her journals for the film instead, an actor voices her words.
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Then there are the lovely quiet moments, like making waffles for her sons and their friends in Malibu.įor the documentary, she pulled from her archive of home videos and a lifetime of diaries, even sharing excerpts from some of them.
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But Anderson gets to share about lesser-known cherished times in her life too, like learning how to tango from an 80-year-old expert in Buenos Aires and getting kicked out of Las Vegas with her best friend, fashion photographer David LaChapelle, during her bachelorette party before marrying Kid Rock. Another difficult topic is the infamous sex tape-which she prefers to call the “stolen tape”-that was taken from her and Lee’s home, spliced together with other footage from their home videos and capitalized on by others. “I think that’s really important to my boys and my family, who have been by my side and have seen the tears, the hard times and the good times.”īoth the book and the doc explore some of those hardships, including the sexual assaults, the witnessing of domestic abuse in her childhood home and the heartbreaks that led to divorces, which have been reported on endlessly. “I don’t like to hold anything back, and hopefully add a little bit of humanness behind the cartoon image that I somehow became,” she says. These works are as much for them as they are for her, and Brandon is at the helm as a producer of Pamela, a Love Story. Though it seems like her documentary and autobiography are being released in response to the Hulu Pam & Tommy series-which she does comment on in the documentary-the truth is that both had been in the works for the past two years and were largely initiated by Anderson’s sons, Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee, now both in their mid-20s. These things were key to how I managed it all.” “I just kept filling myself with things I love-art and poetry.
“ how I broke through a lot of my early trauma,” she says. Books would transport her away from the house where a female babysitter had molested her or help her escape the memory of being raped by an acquaintance when she was 12-experiences that she revealed in 2014. Book and art mentions abound in her memoir, from Carl Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, which she borrowed from the local library, to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, which she devoured while living in Saint-Tropez. While I thought I would have only one thing in common with the actor, it turns out that Anderson, like me, is part of the voracious-reader-since-childhood club. “I think I articulate myself better when I write.” “I’m doing my audiobook right now, and it’s harder to say it out loud,” she says. It’s mid-December, and Anderson is in Miami, where she’s recording the audio version of her memoir before heading back home to Vancouver Island. She takes my random fun fact in stride and tells me that her family’s real last name is Finnish but her grandfather changed it to Anderson when they came to Canada. My maiden name is Anderson, and both of our moms are Carols.
“Our moms have the same name!” I tell her-admittedly a little cringingly-at the start of our phone call, unable to hold back my fangirl gushing. Her memoir, Love, Pamela, which details her family life and rise to celebrity and has her own poetry sprinkled throughout, hit shelves at the end of January too. Pamela, a Love Story -the raw and honest Netflix documentary from Emmy-nominated director Ryan White-sends the loud-and-clear message that there is much more to Anderson than her outward image. Theirs was a relationship that was widely covered in the tabloids, especially after a stolen home video was released without their consent.
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Those two visuals largely sum up how we saw her: as a gorgeous blonde who was in a soapy TV series and married to a world-famous rock star. Whether she was slow-motion running on a beach in her red Baywatch bathing suit or sporting a giant fluffy pink hat and white corset at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards alongside then husband Tommy Lee, the world was endlessly fascinated by her. Scrolling through my memories of late-’80s and ’90s pop culture, I keep hitting upon one particular outsized icon: Pamela Anderson.
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