In hernew memoir,Love, Pamela,out today,Pamela Andersonreveals there was much more to her story than the world ever knew.
“This is just one girl’s life and how I did it,” the actress/model, 55, tells PEOPLE, “and it’s been a wild adventure.” The feeling, she says, was “let’s just do full disclosure and see what happens.”
Read on for some of the biggest bombshells and notable anecdotes from the book. The companion documentary,Pamela, a love story, is available to stream on Netflix now as well.
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Her dad once killed her kittens
One night, when she was a young girl, her father drowned her kittens. After her cat had kittens, she brought them into the house against her dad’s wishes. When he came home and saw them, he was so angry that he stuffed them in a paper bag and drowned them outside in the ocean.
“I felt like I died that night too,” Anderson writes in her memoir.
Posing forPlayboywas freeing for her
Anderson was 22 when she first posed on the cover ofPlayboyin 1989.
She went on toappear on the cover a total of 14 times.
Pamela Anderson; Jack Nicholson in 1975.Emma McIntyre/Getty Images; Tom Wargacki/WireImage
She walked in on Jack Nicholson having a threesome
Anderson recalls a visit to the infamous former home ofPlayboymagazine founderHugh Hefnerin which she bumped intoJack Nicholsonwhile he was “having a threesome in a bathroom.”
“Trying not to look, but I couldn’t help myself and caught his eye in the reflection,” the memoir reads. “I guess that got him to the finish line, because he made a funny noise, smiled and said, ‘Thanks, dear.’ "
When Tommy met Pamela
After she met Tommy Lee at a bar on New Years Eve in 1994, he tracked her down the next morning to her hotel. She playfully purred into the phone, “I want 24 hours with you, then I never want to see you again.” He in turn called back, and she put him on speaker phone only to hear him sing out: “My bologna has a first name, it’s L-A-R-G-E.”
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in 1996.Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage
She claims Tim Allen flashed her on set
In 1991, she writes thatTim Allen flashed her on her first dayon the set ofHome Improvementafter she’d gotten the part of the Tool Time Girl. He was wearing a robe and completely naked underneath, she claims.
Shealso toldVariety, “Tim is a comedian, it’s his job to cross the line. I’m sure he had no bad intentions. Times have changed, though. I doubt anyone would try that post-#MeToo. It’s a new world.”
At the height of herBaywatchfame, John F. Kennedy Jr. called her to ask if she would appear on the cover of his political magazineGeorge. On the phone, she giggled and could barely speak. She ended up posing behind an American flag, naked, for the cover. He then rang her at the shoot and apologized for not being there.
“He was very charming, she writes, “I was just speechless.”
She had a memorable time near the Hollywood sign
Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson in 2002.Frank Micelotta/ABC/ImageDirect
Kid Rock could be jealous at times, she recalls
She met Kid Rock (aka “Bob”) at a concert in 2001 and they married after a whirlwind romance. He was great with her boys and they enjoyed their rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle in Detroit. Still, he was jealous of Tommy Lee.
One day, she and Kid Rock attend a screening ofBoratwith a lot of Hollywood heavyweights. She hadn’t told him she appeared in the film. When Kid Rock learned her sex tape is mentioned in the film, he stormed out, called her a “whore and worse,” she writes, and then left her stranded at the party. They split soon after.
A crack pipe ended up in her family Christmas tree one year
Anderson writes about performing in a magic show in Las Vegas, where she met Rick Salomon, the poker player. He pursued her and they eventually married. A few months later, she writes, her assistantfound a crack pipe in the Christmas tree. “Rick to this day says it was a plant,” she writes.
In the Netflix documentary, Anderson says, “He still to this day denies it and says it was somebody else.” But, she adds, “Who else would have a crack pipe in the Christmas tree? It wasn’t me.”
Salomon — who married andsplit from Andersontwice — told theThe New YorkPost, “I smoked crack for 25 f—ing years, but the crack pipe in the Christmas tree was 1,000% not mine.”
Jane Fonda gave her words of encouragement
She got support from a few women in Hollywood, including Raquel Welch and Jane Fonda. Fonda told her, “Don’t let them do to you what they did to me,” she writes. She remembers their words of wisdom to this day.
Brandon Thomas Lee, Pamela Anderson and Dylan Jagger Lee.Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix
Her hair is now naturally platinum
The book ends on a quieter note as she writes about her new life living on Vancouver Island, reading her favorite authors, making vegan food, and fixing up her grandparents longtime home. There, she wrote her memoir and in a final surprise, she writes that her signature hair is naturally platinum now, “pastel honey blond left from drugstore box color, silver at the root…I like it finally-all the colors of my life, blending together.”
source: people.com
