In her new memoir, Love, Pamela, Pamela Anderson describes an uncomfortable incident she says occurred in 1991, when she was on the set of House Enchancment with the sitcom’s star Tim Allen.
Anderson, who was 23 on the time, had beforehand appeared twice in Playboy, and was new to performing—showing reverse Allen, who was 14 years her senior, in a recurring position that may final two seasons.
“On the primary day of filming, I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was within the hallway in his gown,” Anderson writes within the HarperCollins memoir. “He opened his gown and flashed me rapidly—fully bare beneath. He stated it was solely truthful, as a result of he had seen me bare. Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably.”
In an e mail to Vainness Honest, Allen denied the allegation through his publicist, saying, “No, it by no means occurred. I might by no means do such a factor.”
In a separate assertion shared solely with Vainness Honest, Anderson expands on her account, insisting the incident occurred.
“This true story is only one of many surreal and uncomfortable conditions I realized to navigate,” Anderson writes. “My guide goes into the way it made me really feel over the course of my life and, on this case, my profession. I’ve no sick will towards Tim. However like the remainder, it ought to by no means have occurred.”
In her memoir, Anderson provides, “It was the primary of many weird encounters the place individuals felt they knew me sufficient to make absolute fools out of themselves.” She notes, “Right here you go, Tim, was my solely line each episode, and after they determined to broaden my half, it was, Right here you go, Tim. Have a pleasant day.” Anderson ultimately left House Enchancment to deal with Baywatch, although she says Baywatch paid her much less. “I ended up making my profession alternative based mostly on high quality of life,” she writes.
Anderson started writing what would develop into her memoir throughout the pandemic, shortly after transferring again to her hometown of Ladysmith, Canada. Final yr, a Hulu TV present known as Pam & Tommy purported to inform Anderson’s story—a minimum of, the chapter involving the notorious stolen tape she made together with her first husband, Tommy Lee—however the sequence was made with out Anderson’s approval or participation. The memoir is Anderson’s personal accounting of her life in full—“starting to finish, my first reminiscence to my final,” she lately advised The New York Instances. She stated it was the primary time that she had full management over a mission: “I felt I want to inform my story. And I actually couldn’t let anyone do it however me.”
The memoir, which will probably be launched January 31, chronicles Anderson’s modest upbringing in Canada—the place she says she was sexually abused as a baby and teenager—and her profession posing for Playboy and starring in Baywatch, the sequence that may make her a world star. For the primary time, she describes at size the emotional trauma of getting her and Lee’s personal house films stolen, and marketed to the general public for another person’s revenue. She additionally describes her marriages and motherhood.
The memoir will probably be accompanied by a documentary, coproduced by her son Brandon Lee, known as Pamela, a Love Story, which will probably be launched on Netflix January 31. Directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Ryan White, (The Case Towards 8, The Keepers), the documentary takes viewers inside Anderson’s life in Ladysmith as she displays on her life as a misunderstood star and mom, and her marriages.
