Pamela Anderson does not regret her words on #MeToo: “It takes two to tango”

Pamela Anderson inflamed the masses with her statements in 2017 during the #MeToo boom, where she seemed to blame the victims of the attacks suffered. The actress and model, who has never hidden that she was sexually abused as a child, she believed that the facts occurred due to lack of “common sense” of the victims: “Don’t go to a hotel room alone, if someone opens the door for you in a bathrobe, leave”Anderson said in the controversial interview with Today. Something he had internalized, even if he admitted to understanding it “Hollywood is very seductive”. More than five years later, Anderson has decided to take over the reins on the story of her life, which has been adapted into series such as ‘Pam & Tommy’, in a process she describes as “therapeutic”but that doesn’t make him regret his controversial words.

“I might even go further”says Anderson in an interview with Ronan Farrow, an investigative reporter who has brought up all the allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein. “My mother used to tell me (and I think this is the kind of feminism I grew up with) that two don’t dance if one doesn’t want to”. Within this mentality he grew up with, including her mother feeling ashamed when she pointed out the boy who raped her, Anderson tells Farrow: “Believe me, I’ve been in a lot of situations where I was like ‘Come here little girl, sit on the bed. But my mother told me: ‘If someone opens the door of a hotel in a bathrobe and you’re about to do an interview, don’t go in. But if you decide to enter, go get the job'”. He is aware of it “something terrible to say”But that was how he saw it. That’s not to say Anderson did the former; In the 2017 interview he had already explained that they had offered him everything: money, houses, roles in various films. “I didn’t want to do it that way, I wasn’t attracted to it [la idea]. I’m a romantic”.

Anderson admits in the 2017 interview that he feels “embarrassed, ashamed” why a babysitter abused her when she was a child and why years later a friend of a friend raped her. “Somehow you think it’s your fault”he confesses, even if he assures: “I’ve learned not to put myself in those situations anymore”. This seems to be the basis of the great difference that the actress finds between herself and the female victims of the industry: “I just had this sense of worth and self-worth. But I think a lot of people don’t have it or haven’t been instilled by it.”. However, in his writings he collects numerous experiences of abuse and mistreatment throughout his career.

In the Today interview, Anderson stated that he has dealings with Weinstein and defined him as “very intimidating”, although her experience with him only endured his threats because the actress refused to include animals in the filming, as she considered it animal exploitation. She says she wasn’t surprised when she started hearing testimonies from women recounting the abuse they had experienced. “I think it was common knowledge that some producers and some people in Hollywood are people to avoid in private settings. You know what happens to you if you go to a hotel room by yourself.”. When the interviewer pointed out that some of the victims said their agents had arranged to meet Weinstein, Anderson was surprised but merely said that they should have been accompanied, which contradicts his maxim that there is the fault of the victims.

Despite everything, Anderson has never positioned himself against the movement: “Thank God for the #MeToo movement because things have changed and people are much more thoughtful and respectful.”. Already in the 2017 interview, the model had considered it “Now there is more awareness of the dangers that lurk”.

from object to subject

Pamela Anderson has turned the narratives that have been created about her upside down and has gone from being the object of the content to being the subject: the Her Netflix documentary ‘Pamela, a Love Story’ will premiere on January 31 and her memoirs, ‘Love, Pamela’, a book which the author defines as her “Ave Maria” and which has already reached number one in sales on Amazon. “It was important to go back and see what I remember and tell a full story”.

Britney Spears, who has experienced similar media treatment as Anderson, declared herself a fan in an Instagram post, which she has since deleted, but which Variety picked up on. “She was America’s only sex icon for a while and still is!”wrote the pop singer, who also recounted the impact the model had on her: “Pamela made me realize that people should support you at the exact moment in your life that you are”. Spears, who has never felt supported by her family, praises the fact that the Anderson children asked their mother to tell her own story. his son Brandon Thomas Lee was the one who produced the documentary and helped close the biography deals as well. In the interview with Farrow, Anderson assures that his children “They were great instigators. They wanted me to tell my story” and they supported her “at 100%”.