Pamela Anderson on the Pam and Tommy series
The limited series chronicled the three-year marriage between Pamela and Tommy Lee. In particular, the show focused heavily on the theft and illegal distribution of their infamous sex tape, which the couple privately recorded during their honeymoon.
Pam and Tommy He went on to score countless award nominations – including Outstanding Series or Anthology, Outstanding Lead Actor, and Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series, Movie or Anthology at the 2022 Emmy Awards.
There were many people who criticized the reason for making a series about Pamela and Tommy’s sex tape, especially when it was clear that Pamela didn’t want to be on the show. In fact the Creator It said She didn’t even get Pamela’s permission to do this.
During the broadcast of the show, a source close to Pamela he told Entertainment Weekly that she would “never watch” the show and that she hadn’t even watched the trailer when it dropped.
Now, almost a year later Pam and Tommy Pamela premiered about how bad the series was and how she dealt with this terrible time in her life that was rebooted for people’s TV enjoyment.
“Assholes,” said Pamela V Her latest cover story with Variety when asked about Pam and Tommyin special reference to the creator and the people behind the scenes who developed the series.
She continued, “Salt on the wound… You still owe me a public apology.”
Pamela also repeated that she had not watched a single minute Pam and Tommybut it was hard to escape the billboards promoting Hulu’s limited series.
She described Lily and Sebastian in her costume and Tommy as “a Halloween costume”.
With Pam and TommyPamela has been thrust back into the public spotlight — a place she knows best, thanks to her number of record-breaking Playboy covers and her time on the set. Baywatchwhich she could not travel through without a security team.
“It was just a shock,” Pamela said of the show. Maybe Tommy thought it was funny.
She explained that Tommy reached out to her during this Pam and Tommy He would broadcast: “I remember Tommy writing me a note saying, ‘Don’t let this hurt you like it did the first time,’ because he had heard through the kids that I was struggling with the idea of bringing up all this again.”
While Pamela still has a problem with Pam and Tommyshe was sure to tell Variety that she doesn’t blame Lily for playing her on the show.
Pamela explained, “I think it’s hard to play someone when you don’t know the whole picture. I don’t have anything against Lily James. I think she’s a lovely girl and she was just doing the job.” “But the idea of it all happening was just too overwhelming for me.”
In fact, her upcoming Netflix doc may offer Pamela the chance to bond with Lily for the first time ever.
She told Variety, “I said to Netflix, ‘I’d like to invite Lily to the movie premiere. ‘” “
in Interview with Net-a-Porter Last year, Lily talked about reaching out to Pamela and not receiving an answer at the time. “I was really hoping she would be involved. I wish it was different,” she said.
“I was very hopeful that we would be in touch until we started filming… My only goal was to care about the story and play Pamela authentically.”
I hope Pamela and Lily finally meet, and I would love for Pamela to relive her own story and tell it in her own words, finally.
You can read Pamela’s entire cover story with Variety here.
Love, Pamela And Netflix’s Pamela, a love story Both will be released on January 31st.