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‘Just two crazy naked people in love’: Pamela Anderson on the Tommy Lee sex tape, and her life, in Netflix’s Pamela, A Love Story and memoir Love, Pamela

  • Pam & Tommy, Hulu’s 2022 drama about Anderson, made the Playboy idol ‘feel sick’, she says as a Netflix documentary and her memoir Love, Pamela are released
  • The Baywatch star addresses her marriage to Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee and their sex tape, parenthood, and being sexually abused when she was a child

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Pamela Anderson in a still from “Pamela, A Love Story” on Netflix. In the documentary and her memoir “Love, Pamela”, the former Baywatch star tells her side of her marriage to Tommy Lee, their infamous sex tape, and the sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Photo: Netflix

Nearly one year after Pam & Tommy, Hulu’s biological drama about Pamela Anderson’s stolen sex tape, the Baywatch star is revealing her side of the story in a Netflix documentary, Pamela, a Love Story and in a memoir, Love, Pamela – both out this week.

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The actress, whose iconic slow-motion runs along the beach wearing a bikini will be remembered for years to come, writes that she and her ex-husband Tommy Lee – drummer of American metal band Mötley Crüe – “never made a ‘sex tape’”.

“We just filmed each other, always, and lived a sexy passionate life: sweet newlyweds. Just two crazy naked people in love.”

What resulted is a video that many outlets report earned US$77 million in just one year, although Anderson says she hasn’t seen any of the proceeds.

Pamela, a love story | Official Trailer | Netflix

And that’s not her only heartache. In her latest projects, Anderson, 55, also shares the devastation of childhood sexual abuse and a fruitless quest for love.

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News of Hulu’s plans for the eight-part Pam & Tommy, starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan as the ’90s power couple, gave Anderson nightmares, she says in the new docuseries.
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