![]() ![]() Though she says of Tommy Lee to their son, “I loved your dad for all of the right reasons, and I don’t think I’ve really loved anybody else,” that hasn’t stopped her from marrying five more times, including twice in 2020, during at least some of the time when she was filming the documentary. (Archival footage of her fielding gross questions from the likes of Jay Leno underscores how cavalier the world was in real time about her peccadilloes as they originally unfolded.) But now that she’s 55, and especially after finally drawing raves for her acting in “Chicago,” one hopes that she’s reconciled (if not resolved) these emotional wounds in ways that make it possible for her to feel like herself.īut if the revolving door of relationships, not to mention her repeated efforts to win the adulation of the public even after she was scorned by its attention, draws a conclusion that the Hulu series did not, it’s that she is not merely a hopeless romantic but constantly, and desperately, seeking love. It’s also possible, if not likely, that this merely is a reflex or a coping mechanism that has enabled her to protect herself from the media’s invasive questions and casual cruelty. ![]() It’s clear she’s being as fully honest as she can be about what happened to her, how it felt and what the results were. To interrogate that reaction further might have offered more unique insights about Anderson, much less the public “Pam,” than those other portraits. ![]() But her candor with these incidents evidences the impact of being questioned and scrutinized for so long by so many people with so little regard for her comfort or privacy: She speaks of them matter-of-factly, and if she is still carrying a lot of deeper trauma around them, she tends to wave off the lingering sensations with the bubbly, irresistible giggle that gave her girl-next-door appeal even when she was at the peak of her fembot sexuality. White elicits information about some of the tragic, lesser-known details of her upbringing, including her parents’ volatile marriage, molestation at the hands of a babysitter and multiple sexual assaults during early adolescence, simply by listening, exemplifying the documentary’s goal (along with the memoir) of letting her tell her own story. Through reams of diaries, yellow legal pads full of notes and more than a few home movies (none scandalous), she traces the line of her success from the fateful Jumbotron shot where she was discovered through her “Playboy” career, a series of high-profile romances, and the decline of personal and professional opportunities - not to mention privacy - she experienced after her sex tape with former husband Tommy Lee was stolen and sold without their permission or recompense. As White’s documentary opens more than two decades later (ahead of her well-received 2022 performance as Roxy in a Broadway production of “Chicago”), she’s almost happily washed up as a performer and living with her mother in Ladysmith, British Columbia after purchasing the home where she grew up. ![]() For those who were there at least, it’s easy to remember that by the end of the 1990s, Pamela Anderson had become one of the most famous people in the world, even if largely due to the aggressive curiosity of the media about every moment of her life, good and (especially) bad. ![]()
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