The image is ironic.
Without make-up, Pamela Anderson, 55, watches old personal tapes in her garage.
It's hard not to smile and think about the scandal surrounding the theft of his sex tape in the mid-1990s. The story even inspired Craig Gillespie for the
Pam & Tommy
series released in 2022 on Disney+.
“
I'm scared.
It's not naked, I hope
, ”jokes the star by inserting a video into a VCR.
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No naked images, no.
But a return on his journey.
Coming from a modest family, a waitress mother and a stove repairer and alcoholic father, Pamela Anderson was spotted when she was 16 years old in the audience of a Canadian football match.
After a first advertising campaign where she was still brunette,
Playboy
noticed her and offered her to pose on the cover.
“
I always said my breasts had a career, not me
”
Pamela Anderson in her documentary on Netflix
When she dyes her hair blond, a turning point takes place.
She becomes a playmate and lands one of the title roles in the
Alerte à Malibu
series which will make her known to the general public throughout the world.
Her and her plastic.
Lucid, she comments: "
I always said that my breasts had a career, not me
" or "
We could watch
Baywatch
(
original title of the series, editor's note.
) without the sound, the story didn't matter
".
Confessions and Tears
In this documentary, Pamela Anderson lifts the veil on the violence she has suffered throughout her life.
As a child, she is abused by her babysitter;
preadolescent, she is raped by a 25-year-old man (it was her first sexual relationship);
adult, she is abused by her jealous husbands, Tommy Lee, the father of her two sons or the French footballer Adil Rami.
For thirty years, she has forced herself to laugh at the sexist and bawdy jokes she is regularly the subject of.
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The two-hour film takes on the air of reality TV when one of his sons telephones him to tell him about the famous series which returns to the painful episode of the sex tape.
She had never reacted publicly to this adaptation which she never authorized and even less watched.
“
I feel like someone punched me in the stomach.
I feel bad
, ”she comments in front of the camera.
In her bath, the bachelor, who has been divorced six times, declares her love to the man of her life, Tommy Lee.
“
I prefer to be alone than without the father of my sons.
I can't be with anyone else
”.
Tears flow as soon as the leader of the group Mötley Crüe is mentioned.
Too bad that the interested party does not intervene in this documentary, ultimately very wise and consensual.