PAMELA ANDERSON. Superstar and Baywatch sex symbol Pamela Anderson has had her private life scrutinized in the press for years. A series is now interested in the leak of his sextape recorded with Tommy Lee.
[Mis à jour le 02 février 2022 à 9h00] Broadcasting on Disney+ from this Wednesday, February 2, the Pam & Tommy series looks back on the tumultuous relationship of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, the drummer of the rock band Mötley Crüe. The couple, famous for their escapades, particularly came to light in the mid-1990s when their sex tape leaked on the internet. It is precisely at this moment in their lives that director Craig Gillespie’s series (Me, Tonya) is interested, starring Sebastian Stan and Lily James in the roles of Lee and Anderson. This series, broadcast in the United States on Hulu and on Disney+ in France, highlights one of the most famous moments in the life of Pamela Anderson, whose career and private life have always been intimately intertwined.
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Biography of Pamela Anderson – Pamela Anderson is an American-Canadian actress and model born on July 1, 1967. Mainly known for the role of CJ in the Baywatch series in the 1990s, she takes advantage of her status as a true star to share her commitments in for the fight for the defense of animals. Married six times, she has known many tumultuous or very short relationships.
Born on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, Canada, Pamela Anderson is the daughter of a waitress and a repairman, parents she describes as “loving” despite the fact that her father was an alcoholic. “My mother cried all the time,” she explained in a speech published on her foundation’s website. She explains that she was the victim of sexual abuse at a very young age. Her babysitter allegedly sexually assaulted her when she was between 6 and 10 years old. “My first boyfriend in ninth grade decided it would be fun to rape me in a meeting with six of his friends.” During this speech, she explains how these events had a terrible impact on her life. “I had a hard time trusting humans…I just wanted to be off this Earth. I didn’t really know what I was living for.”
Pamela Anderson began very early to pose as a model in pubs. In 1988, she became a fitness instructor in Vancouver before being hired as the face of the Labatt beer brand. She then entered the small papers of the erotic magazine Playboy, whose cover she made for the first time in October 1989. Faced with this budding modeling career, Pamela Anderson moved to Los Angeles, the true cradle of American show business which was soon to make her a star and a sex symbol.
Shortly after her arrival in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Pamela Anderson was hired in a few film roles but especially for television. She played the role of Lisa in the Papa Bricole series from 1991 then appeared in Des jours et des vies in 1992. The same year, she appeared for the first time in the role of Casey Jean “C. J.” Parker in Baywatch, a drama series dedicated to sea rescuers on the beaches of Malibu. She joined David Hasselhoff there at the time of the broadcast of season 3 and remained there until season 7. Broadcast all over the world in the 1990s, the series allowed Pamela Anderson to become a real superstar.
In an interview published in 2016 in the American magazine W, Pamela Anderson explains that she “regrets everything I have done in the name of beauty”. A sentence pronounced while pointing to his chest, “not that I need to specify it”. A belated awareness for the actress whose plastic has long represented a certain ideal to achieve. “I know it sounds cliché, but happiness has a lot to do with beauty. Calm, peace and not being constantly stressed are crucial to feeling beautiful and at ease. And you can feel that. Doesn’t matter if you’re wearing makeup or not.” In this same interview, Anderson explained not to be worried about aging. “I actually like getting old. I have great inspirations in my life, including my super mom. […] Aging is not the end. I still have a lot to do.”
Her superstar status has earned Pamela Anderson to see her private life particularly scrutinized. Often followed by paparazzi, the actress has never been able to be really discreet about her intimacy, so much so that we know of her many relationships. The actress was thus seen on the arm of David Charvet, with whom she shared the poster for Alerte à Malibu. From 1995 to 1998, she was married to Tommy Lee, drummer for the rock band Mötley Crüe. The couple are getting married 96 hours after meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
She rubbed shoulders with surfer Kelly Slater in 1999 then singer Kid Rock in the early 2000s until 2003. In 2006, she was quickly in a relationship with singer Usher. On August 3, 2006, Pamela Anderson married Kid Rock, with whom she had already lived a romance a few years earlier. The couple will not survive the year 2006 and divorce four months after their marriage. The actress said yes to Rick Salomon on October 6, 2007 and then requested the annulment of the marriage the following year, following which we were then able to see her again alongside Tommy Lee.
In 2017, Pamela Anderson began a relationship with French footballer Adil Rami. The couple separated violently in 2019, Anderson accusing Rami of violence, things that the French international denies in block. In January 2020, Pamela Anderson is getting married for a fifth time, this time to 74-year-old producer and actor Jon Peters. The couple separated, however, twelve days later. The same year, on December 24, 2020, she said yes to a bricklayer from Vancouver Island named Dan Hayhurst. Pamela Anderson filed for divorce in January 2022, thirteen months later.
Pamela Anderson has shared the life of many men during her life, but none of her relationships have been as followed as her relationship with Tommy Lee, the drummer of the rock band Mötley Crüe. Four days after their meeting in 1995, they decide to get married in Cancùn (Mexico) on February 19, 1995. As an alliance, they tattoo their first name on their finger. Together they gave birth to two sons: Brandon Thomas Lee (1996) and Dylan Jagger Lee (1997). The star couple is particularly scrutinized by the media, all the more so when a videotape of their erotic antics leaks on the internet. The actress filed for divorce in 1998, accusing her husband of domestic violence.
In 1996, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee saw an intimate video leaked on the internet. This famous “sextape”, stolen from the trunk of their mansion, quickly went around the globe, distributed and bought en masse on the internet, then copied and sold under the cloak. According to Rolling Stone, the couple hired private detectives to track down who was responsible for the leak. Eventually, Lee and Anderson realized the sextape was already available all over the internet and ended up licensing the video to a porn website.
In 2022, a series, titled Pam & Tommy, looks back on the tumultuous relationship between Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee and the leak of their sex tape in the mid-1990s. Directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya), the series features Sebastian Stan (Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Tommy Lee and Lily James (Baby Driver) as Pamela Anderson. Initially broadcast on Hulu in the United States, the series has been available in France on Disney+ since February 2, 2022. Contacted by Lily James, Pamela Anderson did not wish to get involved in the series.
Pamela Anderson had two children from her union with Tommy Lee. Brandon Thomas Lee was born on June 5, 1996 while Dylan Jagger Lee was born on December 29, 1997. Both are models and regularly appear arm in arm with their mother on red carpets.
From 2017, Pamela Anderson is in a relationship with the French footballer Adil Rami. Deciding to follow her companion, a player at Olympique de Marseille, she settled in Marseille. She takes advantage of her presence in France to participate in Dancing with the stars on TF1. The couple formed by Pamela Anderson and Adil Rami ended with a bang in June 2019 when the latter announced their separation, accusing the footballer of domestic violence. She claims that she would have suffered “physical and emotional torture” from him, accusations that Adil Rami categorically denies.
In The Team in January 2022, Adil Rami returns to this sudden break. “It’s been a mental injury and coming across as a villain isn’t easy when it’s not true.” In his autobiographical book entitled Autopsy, Adil Rami says he wanted his ex-girlfriend to file a complaint. “Toss me to court, please. I could play her dirty, take on the carnage since she put my family in the storm, throw our sextapes, her emails, her poems, her love-crazed text messages that would atomize her media.” In the daily La Provence, Rami affirms, however, that he does not want her “personally” but “her shitty entourage, all these lice, these bacteria, which pushed her to do this kind of thing”.
From the end of the 2000s, Pamela Anderson began to take an interest in reality TV programs. She has thus participated in several editions of Dancing with the Stars around the world. First in the United States in 2010 then in Argentina in 2011. At the end of 2018, her participation in Dance with the Stars caused a stir in France when she was in a relationship with the recently world champion Adil Rami. In DALS season 9, she dances on the arm of Maxime Dereymez and is eliminated on November 8, 2018, which allows her to finish fifth in the competition.
Pamela Anderson has long been an animal rights activist. She is the head of the Pamela Anderson Foundation which supports any initiative aimed at protecting the rights of animals, humans, but also the environment. She has appeared many times during the campaigns of PETA, which fights for the defense of animals. It has been seen in particular in campaigns aimed at raising awareness about fur and its cost to animal life, but also about vegetarianism and bullfighting. In 2016, she also spoke at the National Assembly in France in an indictment on the force-feeding of geese and ducks.
- 1990 – Charles Takes Charge
- 1990-1991 – Married, two children
- 1991-1993 and 1997 – Dad tinkers
- 1992 – Days and Lives
- 1992-1997 – Baywatch
- 1995 – Naked Souls
- 1996 – Barb Wire
- 1998-2002 – VIPs
- 2002 – Scooby Doo
- 2003 – Scary Movie 3
- 2003-2004 – Stripperella
- 2005-2006 – The Readings of a Blonde
- 2006 – Borat
- 2008 – Super Hero Movie
- 2013 – Package Deal
- 2016 – The People Garden
- 2017 – The Institute
- 2017 – Baywatch: Baywatch
- 2018 – Nicky Larson and Cupid’s Perfume