Pamela Anderson says the leaked sex tape with ex-spouse Tommy Lee is "stolen property"
January 13, 2023 By Alberto Mesti
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According to Pamela Anderson, the leaked sex footage with her ex-husband Tommy Lee is nothing more than "stolen property." While promoting her upcoming memoir
Love, Pamela and a new Netflix documentary
Pamela, a love story, Anderson, 55, spoke about her six marriages, her childhood trauma, and that sex tape she shot with Lee, now 60, while on vacation to Lake Mead in 1995.
In the upcoming interview with
CBS Sunday Morning's Jim Axelrod, which will air on Sunday, when asked what she wants viewers to "understand" about the infamous tape, Anderson responded, "That it was stolen property, that it was two crazy naked people in love."
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The actress continued, "I mean, we were naked all the time and filming each other and being silly, but those tapes were not meant for anybody else to see."
Furthermore, Anderson said of the video, which a resentful former employee stole from her and Lee's home along with the safe it was kept in: "And I've not seen it to this day. It was very hurtful."
"I was a mother. That saved me," she added. Anderson has two children: Dylan, now 25, and Brandon, now 26, with Lee. She continued, "You know, if I wasn't a mom, I don't think I would've survived."
What's more
At other points in the interview, Pamela Anderson remarked she feels "like I'm in a really good place" from her home on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Moreover, in the official trailer for her Netflix documentary, Anderson tackles the issue around the sex tape and declares of her image, "I wanna take control of the narrative for the first time."
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She explains, "I had to make a career out of the pieces left, but I'm not the damsel in distress," adding, "I put myself in crazy situations ... and survived them."
On another note, Jim Axelrod's interview with Anderson for
CBS Sunday Morning will broadcast Sunday at 9 a.m. ET on CBS. Additionally, Paramount+ will stream it as well. And lastly,
Pamela, a love story will make its Netflix debut on January 31.
By Alberto Mesti
Introvert. Eccentric at times. A fashion enthusiast, designer and writer. Lives for the drama, hates being at the centre of it. Can be best described as \'wannabe modern day Lady Whistledown\'.