![]() ![]() ![]() Subscribe now.No one should have to go hungry, especially in a world with as much wealth as ours. Stay informed and gain unlimited access to the Daily Beast's unmatched reporting. Get the Daily Beast's biggest scoops and scandals delivered right to your inbox. Keep obsessing! Sign up for the Daily Beast’s Obsessed newsletter and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. But maybe we owe it to ourselves, a generation continuing to learn and grow from our past, well, awfulness.Īs a brilliant piece of music writing once passionately put to song: “ Some people stand in the darkness / afraid to step into the light…” Well, after this week, “ I’ll be ready.” If anything, Pamela: A Love Story proves her admirable capability of moving onto next chapters of her life no matter what the public cares or says. I don’t think we necessarily “owe it” to Anderson to watch this documentary and hear her thoughts on everything she’s experienced in the public eye. Instead, by the end of the documentary, I had a Google Doc assembled that might as well be retitled “Therapy Session via Pam.” I started transcribing quotes, assuming I’d find explosive fodder for a grabby headline about Anderson clapping back at her abusers. But, overwhelmingly, she talks through her feelings about love, trust, taking risks, and figuring out who she really is, after years of being told to be a certain way. And Anderson exhibits nothing but candor throughout, especially when discussing her “sick” feeling when Pam and Tommy was released and the past she’d worked so hard to move on from was in the news again. There are certainly insightful observations about the invasion of privacy she suffered when the sex tape was released and the cruel humiliation she endured. As she gave the filmmaker Ryan White access to her personal diaries and, on camera, watched the hours and hours of home-video footage she kept over the decades, it was, quite often, moving. Her humor and insights are equally sharp. What a refreshing surprise it was to encounter Anderson in a space that was so warm, funny, and even goofy. Pamela Anderson Says She Made Jack Nicholson Orgasm on Sight, and More Bombshellsīecause of the nature of everything that’s tied to Anderson’s fame, one-as in me-might press play on this tell-all documentary expecting something juicy, salacious, and fiery-as was her life as we thought we knew it. Or, to clarify, it’s the first platform she’s been given to do so, at a time when we are ready and willing to listen. Now is, really, the first time Anderson has been given the opportunity to explain how she feels-and felt-about all of those things. ![]() We even, if shamefully, remember the more unscrupulous milestones: the way Anderson couldn’t give an interview without her breasts being mentioned, how she was misogynistically vilified after the sex tape was stolen and released, and how she soldiered on, willing to take part in playing the caricature of “Pam Anderson” if it meant continued work and survival. invasive part of her life without her consent. And most recently, we remember the release of the Hulu series Pam and Tommy, which dramatized the most tumultuous. Yes, we remember all of it: the Playboy centerfold, the Baywatch breakout, the whirlwind marriage to Tommy Lee, the sex tape, the Scary Movie franchise appearance, the random gigs throughout the years, the multiple husbands and divorces, the PETA activism, the Julian Assange friendship. Pamela: A Love Story is eye-opening and perspective-changing. ![]() Even when she was speaking, we weren’t hearing what she had to say. This week’s slew of Anderson-centric projects are forcing us to recognize that she hadn’t been given a say in that matter. Even when there wasn’t anything particularly huge happening in her career, there she was still, as if her place in the public’s consciousness was less a home than it was a fortified war bunker she’d been forced into. And it’s time for our reckoning.Īnderson is a celebrity that we have been preoccupied with for decades and, for reasons both earnest and unsavory, have granted permanent residence for in the zeitgeist. But there’s a realization I had this week, while reading through the gossip around Anderson’s just-released memoir, Love, Pamela taking in her major interviews in support of it and, now, having just watched the new Netflix documentary Pamela: A Love Story. Gen X and, in some cases, Gen Z: what years what kind of upbringing what pop-culture memories. There’s exhausting talk amongst people in a certain age range about what qualifies as millennial vs. Pamela Anderson’s Memoir Dishes on Posing for Playboy, That Sex Tape, and More Friends, I even watched the 2005 sitcom Stacked. But Anderson set off some sort of spark that crackled through the screen into my consciousness, where it would flicker for decades to come. ![]()
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