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Pamela Anderson is finally telling her side of the story in a new candid Netflix documentary. \"Pamela, a Love Story,\" directed by Ryan White and produced by Anderson's son, Brandon Thomas Lee, examines the scope of her life. For the first time, the film shares new details about her career, love life, and more, straight from the source \u2014 with some help from family, including her sons, Brandon, 26, and Dylan, 25.\nNetflix bills the documentary \u2014 which premiered on Jan. 31, the same day that Anderson released her memoir, \"Love, Pamela\" \u2014 as an \"intimate and humanizing portrait of one of the world's most famous blonde bombshells,\" also noting that it follows Anderson's life and career \"from small town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist, and doting mother.\" Not only does the documentary highlight her rise to fame as a Playboy model-turned-actor, but it also includes diary entries that reveal the trauma Anderson experienced as a kid. It dives into other headline-grabbing aspects of Anderson's life, too, including her high-profile relationship with ex-husband Tommy Lee, their sex-tape scandal, the men she's romanced over the years (which include Mario Van Peebles and Kelly Slater), how Hulu's \"Pam & Tommy\" series retraumatized her decades later, and, of course, the constant chatter about her body in the media.\nIn a recent interview with Insider, White said, \"I realized very early that this woman was willing to talk about anything and nothing was off limits.\" He added: \"The Pamela Anderson I know is very different from the Pamela Anderson in the show. So I think the documentary is going to surprise people.\"\nRead ahead for all the biggest revelations from \"Pamela, a Love Story.\"\n\n Related:\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Pamela Anderson Says the Stolen Sex Tape "Ruined" Her Relationship With Tommy Lee\n \n \n","id":49074226,"type":"gallery","photo_source":"Image Source: Netflix","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"18 of the Biggest Revelations From Pamela Anderson's Candid Netflix Documentary","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":false,"slide_tags":"NetflixPamela AndersonMoviesDocumentariesStreaming","is_cover":true},"image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/doYq1g8Ywtx6TfEG0e9R__E1DBs\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/935\/n\/1922283\/9e9c34b97ab9b9c7_Pamela_a_love_story_00_08_26_13\/i\/Anderson-Was-Sexually-Abused-by-Her-Babysitter-When-She-Was-Child.png","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/zF7tn1O2x681beHAuyC4MIlKBQg\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/935\/n\/1922283\/9e9c34b97ab9b9c7_Pamela_a_love_story_00_08_26_13\/i\/Anderson-Was-Sexually-Abused-by-Her-Babysitter-When-She-Was-Child.png","title":"Anderson Was Sexually Abused by Her Babysitter When She Was a Child","intro_text":false,"body":"Anderson begins the documentary by recounting \"some horrible things\" she experienced when she was a kid, starting with a female babysitter who abused her. \"My parents thought she was a great babysitter 'cause she brought presents all the time, but she was molesting me,\" she revealed, noting she went through \"three or four years of abuse.\" Anderson even confessed that she once tried to kill her babysitter. \"I tried to stab her in the heart with a candy cane pen,\" she recalled. \"And then I told her I wanted her to die. She died in a car accident the next day, so I thought I killed her with my magical mind, and I couldn't tell anybody.\"\n","id":49074306,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Netflix","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074306\/Anderson-Was-Sexually-Abused-by-Her-Babysitter-When-She-Was-Child","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson Was Sexually Abused by Her Babysitter When She Was a Child","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":1,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/eGtxZJWolMT70A0dOjdviHVh6Gg\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/929\/n\/1922283\/d4dd905c984f7ba7_Pamela_a_love_story_00_18_55_21\/i\/Anderson-Was-Raped-by-Older-Man-When-She-Was-About-12-Years-Old.png","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/KffIRjmevAcqSCfX3GChOrpo_Gk\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/929\/n\/1922283\/d4dd905c984f7ba7_Pamela_a_love_story_00_18_55_21\/i\/Anderson-Was-Raped-by-Older-Man-When-She-Was-About-12-Years-Old.png","title":"Anderson Was Raped by an Older Man When She Was About 12 Years Old","intro_text":false,"body":"In a diary entry, Anderson recalls a traumatic incident that occurred when she and a friend of hers went to hang out at a friend's condo. While her friend was upstairs with \"the guy she had a crush on,\" Anderson claims she was raped by a 25-year-old man, whom she refers to as her friend's friend. She never told anyone what happened to her. \"I tried to forget it, but it felt like it was tattooed on my forehead,\" she shares in the documentary. \"I really had this image of 'I had sex' on my forehead when I didn't want anyone to know that I had it.\"\n","id":49074284,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Netflix","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074284\/Anderson-Was-Raped-by-Older-Man-When-She-Was-About-12-Years-Old","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson Was Raped by an Older Man When She Was About 12 Years Old","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":2,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/9xTLBBtQWq0mJIUGozgIDwbUBQk\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/929\/n\/1922283\/9ec494c68c51cd5d_Pamela_a_love_story_00_22_07_00\/i\/Andersons-First-Playboy-Modeling-Experience-Helped-Her-Overcome-Childhood-Trauma.png","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/vr69sRgzXJ4Nahz5EMPLZ5N1DWs\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/929\/n\/1922283\/9ec494c68c51cd5d_Pamela_a_love_story_00_22_07_00\/i\/Andersons-First-Playboy-Modeling-Experience-Helped-Her-Overcome-Childhood-Trauma.png","title":"Anderson\u2019s First Playboy Modeling Experience Helped Her Overcome Childhood Trauma","intro_text":false,"body":"Anderson recalls feeling \"very, very shy\" and \"super self-conscious\" after being sexually abused as a child, which \"paralyzed\" her during her first Playboy photo shoot. However, she says that the first snap of a picture broke her out of shame. \"I felt like I was throwing myself off a bridge and falling in . . . That was the first time I felt like I'd broken free of something.\" She adds: \"It felt like it was kind of a gateway to another world. Now I was going to take the power of my own sexuality, and I did it, I think, in a really big way.\"\n","id":49074288,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Netflix","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074288\/Andersons-First-Playboy-Modeling-Experience-Helped-Her-Overcome-Childhood-Trauma","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson\u2019s First Playboy Modeling Experience Helped Her Overcome Childhood Trauma","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":3,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/jUD0g5mde6fkPou6lCQXgvkqshs\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/927\/n\/1922283\/cfc4fcb0b0df0d2a_Pamela_a_love_story_00_25_36_23\/i\/Anderson-Thinks-Peoples-Fascination-With-Her-Body-Is-Disturbing.png","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/8JmO5pyGHk6kNwQeTKReHQI6KEY\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/927\/n\/1922283\/cfc4fcb0b0df0d2a_Pamela_a_love_story_00_25_36_23\/i\/Anderson-Thinks-Peoples-Fascination-With-Her-Body-Is-Disturbing.png","title":"Anderson Thinks People\u2019s Fascination With Her Body Is \"Disturbing\"","intro_text":false,"body":"The former model says that when she started honestly answering the media's questions about her body and plastic surgery, it started a downward spiral in terms of how she was treated. \"I don't know why my boobs, people were so interested, they weren't that newsworthy,\" Anderson says. \"But I was just so naive. And I think, at the time, it was pretty nervy to say the truth . . . It was disturbing 'cause it was like, 'Oh my God. Really? Is this what we're talking about again?'\"\n","id":49074275,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Netflix","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074275\/Anderson-Thinks-Peoples-Fascination-With-Her-Body-Is-Disturbing","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson Thinks People\u2019s Fascination With Her Body Is \"Disturbing\"","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":4,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/WFmKU4am0l_ph3IQo5lOi318lIc\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/929\/n\/1922283\/5df43c8d2c5e3f6f_Pamela_a_love_story_00_35_08_01\/i\/Anderson-Married-Tommy-Lee-at-Same-Time-She-Was-Dating-Kelly-Slater.png","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/efw0ERbRmz8alatIO3ftyDpOfng\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/929\/n\/1922283\/5df43c8d2c5e3f6f_Pamela_a_love_story_00_35_08_01\/i\/Anderson-Married-Tommy-Lee-at-Same-Time-She-Was-Dating-Kelly-Slater.png","title":"Anderson Married Tommy Lee at the Same Time She Was Dating Kelly Slater","intro_text":false,"body":"Anderson and Lee's explosive whirlwind romance led to the two getting married within four days of dating. The relationship moved so quickly that Anderson didn't even have a chance to break things off with her ex Kelly Slater, whom she was still dating when she tied the knot with Lee. She says that, at the time, she was supposed to go with Slater to Florida to meet his family, but her first phone call to him was to tell her she was married. \"He's like, 'What?!' That was horrible,\" Anderson says.\n","id":49074286,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Netflix","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074286\/Anderson-Married-Tommy-Lee-at-Same-Time-She-Was-Dating-Kelly-Slater","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson Married Tommy Lee at the Same Time She Was Dating Kelly Slater","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":5,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/Z_NqzlobJ1dgRtaKyqxW7z7hT0g\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/946\/n\/1922283\/e7912970a47d83cc_Pamela_a_love_story_00_53_44_07\/i\/Anderson-Lee-Didnt-Realize-Their-Sex-Tape-Had-Gone-Missing-Until-Months-Later.png","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/COVhzRMaFZsqCEdUj6LgOmUr5Qs\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/946\/n\/1922283\/e7912970a47d83cc_Pamela_a_love_story_00_53_44_07\/i\/Anderson-Lee-Didnt-Realize-Their-Sex-Tape-Had-Gone-Missing-Until-Months-Later.png","title":"Anderson and Lee Didn\u2019t Realize Their Sex Tape Had Gone Missing Until Months Later","intro_text":false,"body":"Anderson says she and Lee finally realized their safe was gone when Lee went to retrieve something from it one day, and at the time, he hoped it was just a practical joke. She adds that the two had no idea when their safe was stolen because they had so much construction going on at their house back then, noting that it could've been taken anytime within a six-month time period. \"We didn't have any idea that anything in there was gonna be something that would hurt us,\" Anderson says \u2014 until they anonymously received a VHS copy of their sex tape in the mail.\n","id":49074324,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Netflix","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074324\/Anderson-Lee-Didnt-Realize-Their-Sex-Tape-Had-Gone-Missing-Until-Months-Later","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson and Lee Didn\u2019t Realize Their Sex Tape Had Gone Missing Until Months Later","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":6,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/6BoLc2uWusZU5LtyfXu2baEmJ2c\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/937\/n\/1922283\/5f5d3cfd32ec102c_GettyImages-637074842\/i\/Anderson-Lee-Were-Initially-Offered-5-Million-For-Rights-to-Their-Sex-Tape.jpg","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/CP21YXbvaZJD8D-vjSZi3GXWlvs\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/937\/n\/1922283\/5f5d3cfd32ec102c_GettyImages-637074842\/i\/Anderson-Lee-Were-Initially-Offered-5-Million-For-Rights-to-Their-Sex-Tape.jpg","title":"Anderson and Lee Were Initially Offered $5 Million For the Rights to Their Sex Tape","intro_text":false,"body":"Shortly after they got their sex tape in the mail, Anderson says the former couple received a letter from Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse Magazine, who offered to buy the tape from them for $5 million in cash. \"We said, 'F*ck you. Give us our tapes back,'\" Anderson recalls. \"This was not supposed to be for anybody else.\"\n","id":49074314,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Getty \/ Ron Davis","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074314\/Anderson-Lee-Were-Initially-Offered-5-Million-For-Rights-to-Their-Sex-Tape","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson and Lee Were Initially Offered $5 Million For the Rights to Their Sex Tape","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":7,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/8DSmGjNTowfh6Z7dh3w_LAtmbAk\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/946\/n\/1922283\/322dc67ef043b92e_Pamela_a_love_story_00_35_45_17\/i\/Anderson-Compares-Right-to-Privacy-Trial-For-Her-Lees-Sex-Tape-to-Rape.png","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/l02w1kLC8sjQ5msokOUKj8QiiEo\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/946\/n\/1922283\/322dc67ef043b92e_Pamela_a_love_story_00_35_45_17\/i\/Anderson-Compares-Right-to-Privacy-Trial-For-Her-Lees-Sex-Tape-to-Rape.png","title":"Anderson Compares the Right to Privacy Trial For Her and Lee\u2019s Sex Tape to \"a Rape\"","intro_text":false,"body":"At the time of Lee and Anderson's trial, Anderson was pregnant with their second child, and she was worried that the brutal depositions would negatively impact the health of their baby. She recalls seeing men in the courtroom holding up naked pictures of her and being questioned about her sex life on the stand. \"The lawyers basically said, 'You're in Playboy. You have no right to privacy,'\" Anderson shares. \"I kept on thinking, how am I being questioned about my sexuality and preferences and body parts and where I like to make love when it's stolen property? It made me feel like I was such a horrible woman . . . Playboy was empowering for me, but in this case, it felt like a rape.\"\n","id":49074323,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Netflix","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074323\/Anderson-Compares-Right-to-Privacy-Trial-For-Her-Lees-Sex-Tape-to-Rape","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson Compares the Right to Privacy Trial For Her and Lee\u2019s Sex Tape to \"a Rape\"","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":8,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/OGhnmRsAHjEV4wbGoP2W9E9fn6w\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/954\/n\/1922283\/d52f1e4585ee4315_GettyImages-3150785\/i\/Anderson-Lee-Never-Made-Money-From-Their-Sex-Tape.jpg","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/KEJ4CWY3-T4my050LegY11qI-aY\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/954\/n\/1922283\/d52f1e4585ee4315_GettyImages-3150785\/i\/Anderson-Lee-Never-Made-Money-From-Their-Sex-Tape.jpg","title":"Anderson and Lee Never Made Money From Their Sex Tape","intro_text":false,"body":"After they signed away the rights to their sex tape and it was uploaded online for millions to watch, Anderson says she and Lee \"never made a dime\" off of it, though, at the time, they didn't account for how big a deal the internet would come to be. \"We had no idea it was gonna go all over the world in an instant,\" she says. Her son Brandon refers to the sex tape as \"the first viral video.\"\n","id":49074341,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Getty \/ Giulio Marcocchi","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074341\/Anderson-Lee-Never-Made-Money-From-Their-Sex-Tape","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson and Lee Never Made Money From Their Sex Tape","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":9,"slide_tags":"","image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/Mm_835T_eEJUeHLi0h5Cw7rFP0U\/fit-in\/1024x1024\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/948\/n\/1922283\/63318bf98db8cdf6_GettyImages-51167846\/i\/Anderson-Felt-Like-She-Became-Caricature-After-Her-Sex-Tape-Went-Viral.jpg","share_image":"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/yU-1O12luOiqO-ZjtaD9VLOKp58\/fit-in\/2048xorig\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\/2023\/01\/30\/948\/n\/1922283\/63318bf98db8cdf6_GettyImages-51167846\/i\/Anderson-Felt-Like-She-Became-Caricature-After-Her-Sex-Tape-Went-Viral.jpg","title":"Anderson Felt Like She Became a \"Caricature\" After Her Sex Tape Went Viral","intro_text":false,"body":"Anderson recalls being the punchline of a lot of jokes on many talk shows, calling it \"super humiliating.\" She says the sex tape created a certain reputation for her after that and \"solidified the cartoon image, too.\" \"You become a caricature,\" she notes. \"I think that was the deterioration of whatever image I had.\" While Anderson says the sex tape only added to Lee's rock star lifestyle, it instead punctuated the end of her career.\n","id":49074332,"type":"image","photo_source":"Image Source: Getty \/ Kevin Winter","permalink":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/photo-gallery\/49074226\/image\/49074332\/Anderson-Felt-Like-She-Became-Caricature-After-Her-Sex-Tape-Went-Viral","canonical":"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/entertainment\/pamela-a-love-story-revelations-49074226","share_text":"Anderson Felt Like She Became a \"Caricature\" After Her Sex Tape Went Viral","use_tall_image":false,"omit_from_countdown":false,"caption_num":10